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[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]

Isn't that LITERALLY what you are arguing should happen?  Someone pointed out that a piece of literature had racist elements but, instead of saying it should be cancelled, recommended it in spite of the offensive content?

And, by the way, that is the reality of the Little House series.  I read them with my kids and we had to talk about how Ma is strong and brave and wise and smart and a wonderful mother, and also suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper racist against Native Americans.  [b]You do have to deal with the offensive content[/b].[/quote]
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This is what we all agreed, right? If a book is offensive - and these books will live on in existing bookshelves all over the country - we have to talk to our kids about why they’re offensive and why we don’t talk about people like that anymore or depict them that way.

(And shout out to Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich, meant to be sort of a Native perspective story on the era in which LHOTP was set. It’s in a slightly different geographical location, but it’s really, really good. I read both to my son.)[/quote]

I think the fact that "what we all agreed" turns out ALSO to be "censorship" tells you what you need to know about whether "cancel culture" critics are operating in good faith.[/quote]

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