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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]
But that’s AP English, an unregulated English course beyond a few key content points. When I was in Ap English, I had to read Jhumpa Lahiri- there’s no standard text for the course.

Go into an actual English department page and you will see how much it a non issue this is at the collegiate level[/quote]

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