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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Woke ideologues have ruined the study of serious literature.  They tell us that we need trigger warnings about Shakespeare, Dickens, Whitman and Twain and it's better to read second- and third-rate PC writers instead.  [/quote]
Name "they."
Name "third-rate PC writers."
You will maybe read Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde in a "woke" English department, but the rest of your experience will be with the cannon for undergraduate English training.[/quote]

Even in my DC’s AP English class the summer reading is Ta-Nehisi Coates, and this is a Catholic school. Not trashing the book, but it isn’t as if they are reading Whitman or Twain either. [/quote]

Not sure why it matters what you read as long as it is more than a graphic novel or harlequin romance.

I don’t know many people that read Twain or Whitman for pleasure…and certainly not teens.

My kids hate fiction (I don’t much like fiction)…but on their own read Moneyball and the Musk biography.  I just don’t see why there cant be some flexibility in all this.[/quote]

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