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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]God, some of you are so pathetic. Your kid will read some Shakespeare and please don’t act like your kid will magically get smarter by reading it. 
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In your expert opinion, what books are making our kids smarter? Harry Potter? Oh no, that's with the author that doesn't support trans rights... Soon only the books on Lady Cannon's list will be approved staples for consumption lol.

Unless you are saying kids should not read books anymore, since they don't get them smarter by reading them.

I beg to differ, reading 100 books from the canon will make them smarter, happier and more interesting human beings.[/quote]

I posted some books already, I can’t be bothered again. (Not white supremacy books lol)

And again, why are you acting like you’re under 25 and your brain hasn’t fully developed? Did I say reading in general doesn’t help you grow? No, I said Shakespeare. 
I also said some will be read anyway.

Why do you keep referencing HP? Do you not know any other modern authors lmao. No wonder you love Shakespeare so much, must be the era in which you transmigrated from.[/quote]

Please, no more book suggestions, enough damage has been done already!

Thank you for the clarfication, just to make sure I got it right, reading in general does help one grow, just not Shakespeare. Some will read anyway, against your advice, but... no gains! Got it!

Harry Potter is referenced as a stand in for popular but low quality books. There is the argument that at least it gets kids reading instead of playing video games. The opposing view is as useless and facile reading. Saying it belongs to the English literature class as a serious study, is a trolling joke. Same with Wimpy Kid, these are books that elementary school students read. If you haven't figured out this by now, sigh....

Shakespeare stands in for timeless books that are part of the cultural heritage of humanity, the so called western literary canon. Books that are remarcable by their mastery of language, originality, books that changed how we think, the stories we tell to each other etc.

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Are you the mom who just wants her kid to read Shakespeare so her kid can get into college or the MIT PhD who has all the time in the world to be on her versus doing physics?

Not all of us are part of the western heritage. The majority of the city isn’t. You know your bigotry is showing with this post.[/quote]

What you are awkwardly referring to as bigotry is called cultural relativism, i.e. there is no culture that is better then others, the product of white culture is meant to maintain its domination over other cultures etc. You are not even that original, it's all post-modernism, but since your cultural horizon ends at Kendi, I doubt you know what I'm talking about.

You are illustrating perfectly why people hate the woke mob cancel culture mentality. Someone is expressing an idea or an opinion and the response is not to consider its merits, but to be so hypersensitive and easily offended as to just cry racism, bigotry and white supremacy.[/quote]

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