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Title: 'Mockingbird' faces chop at Toronto schools
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-10-05 15:16:43
Canadian

[Mustang1]

Tell the parent to get a life. Really, what is the objection? You'll notice that this "crusader" of intellectualism hides behind anonymity and can't even muster an articulation of their objections.

Stupidity knows no bounds.

[2Cdo]

Mustang1 Mustang1:

Stupidity knows no bounds.

I've been saying that for years and lately it seems to be getting worse!

[mikewood86]

"Teenagers can be the harshest critics ... let teenagers develop their critical thinking skills on their own."

Brilliant. Too much coddling now a days. The world is a lot tougher place, and parents should be worried about a lot more things first than this.

[leewgrant]

If you are going to ban books because they contain something distasteful (and a word in common use at the time depicted in the novel) does that means books showing slavery or torture are likewise banned?

Saw the movie just recently. First class.

$1:

In August, a Brampton principal scrapped the book from a Grade 10 English course after a parent complained. Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board officials said the parent had objected to the use of the N-word in the book.

[leewgrant]

duplicate

[Chumley]

They should remove the book and promptly replace it with an even more controversial one.

[2Cdo]

I'm getting tired of these useless busybodies who want to ban everything they don't like. What a cold sterile existence we'll have if idiots like this parent get their way.

[N_Fiddledog]

Have they forgiven Huckleberry Finn yet? They used to go after it for use of the "N" word too.

[DrRosen]

Pulitzer Prize winning book on the Modern Librarys toop 100 list, an Academy Award winning film on the AFI top 100 list. Yup, this sounds liek the sort of material we should ban.

[xerxes]

This isn't the first time and this won't be the last. This book and Huck Finn are two of the most banned books historically in N. America.

[N_Fiddledog]

Just more Political Correctness gone amok.

[BionicBunny]

Sad really. Next thing you know, they will be banning history books from schools which have facts that offend certain cultures or races of people. They have already taken potshots at Christmas in schools, the national anthem, etc.

Maybe they will even cover up artistic murals in a legislature. *thinks* Oh wait, they did that already. I guess it's just the history books left.

[ShepherdsDog]

Gee,if we were to ban everything with the the socially unacceptable version of Negro, we'd be able to get rid of Rap music.

This is BS, pure and simple. This was an actual portrayal of how people thought and talked in less enlightened times. To ignore the usage of the word and mask the way the people were treated is like denying the holocaust.

Confronting and discussing these attitudes is the only way we can move beyond them. Pretending it didn't happen or hiding the reality of the situation is a disservice to those who fought to be treated as equals. They endured ignorance and persecution, and their stories need to be told.

This knob gobbler likely didn't get All in the Family either, while they were sipping their non fat soy milk and grazing on organic granola.

[gonavy47]

White people have been programmed over the last forty years or so,to have a "collective guilt" over the slave trade. I have never enslaved anyone, nor will I ever enslave anyone. As a matter of fact, I would lay down my life to ensure my fellow citizen's freedom, no matter what colour or race they were. I refuse to buy into the guilt trip, and I don't believe in what these people are doing, political correctness running amok. History should not be altered to save someone's feelings. Banning books, isn't that what Hitler did?