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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is sad how much wonderful literature will be cancelled. All because younger generations have not been taught critical thinking skills and because everything has become about feelings, not logic, facts or intellect. [/quote]

What literature has been cancelled in the United States?[/quote]

NP. There was a thread a few days/weeks ago asking for book recommendations for an elementary child interested in history. Someone recommended the Little House series but felt the need to spend half of the post apologizing for the offensive content and saying that if you could get past that, they were actually good books. I had to read the post twice to believe it.

I agree with the OP that the censorship and cancelling is out of control. [/quote]

How is your example censoring?  Is there some new definition of censoring I am unfamiliar with?  [/quote]
DP.  Apparently there is.  Censoring now promotes woke culture and like everything else is outsourced to businesses.  It might not be the right word, but it's a close enough concept that it's being adopted to describe this. [/quote]

DP. "Read this, but heads up there's some racist stuff in it" is so far from censorship that it's hard to take you seriously. It doesn't even suggest that you shouldn't read that book! There are books I actively suggest people not read? I guess that's a book burning in your topsy-turvy world.[/quote]
I'm just saying they are pointing to a cultural change they don't agree with.  This is so new, there is no word for it.  But you know what they are complaining about anyway.[/quote]

You don't get to just declare the words mean things other than their agreed upon meaning. Yes, language evolves but not like that.

Yes, I know what they're complaining about, but complaining that someone mentioned racism in a book while also recommending it is such an obviously moronic thing to whine about that PP had to lie and call it censorship to seem like anything other than an absolute loon.[/quote]

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