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packman

(16,296 posts) Sat Oct 14, 2017, 12:50 PM Oct 2017

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Atticus Finch and his ilk makes Mississippians uncomfortable

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is being removed from a junior-high reading list in a Mississippi school district.

The Sun Herald reports that Biloxi administrators pulled the novel from the 8th-grade curriculum this week. School board vice president Kenny Holloway says the district received complaints that some of the book's language "makes people uncomfortable."

https://articles.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/10/mississippi_school_district_pu.amp

Makes one wonder - What kind of books would make them "comfortable"? Maybe that one done by the German guy written in the last century, the guy with the funny mustache.

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Atticus Finch and his ilk makes Mississippians uncomfortable (Original Post) packman Oct 2017 OP

Doncha hate delicate snowflakes? HAB911 Oct 2017 #1

People with a conscience are ashamed at their bad behavior, and don't white wash reality. Irish_Dem Oct 2017 #2

The audacity! Cirque du So-What Oct 2017 #3

They feel threatened by the part where Atticus shoots the rabid dog. NBachers Oct 2017 #4

Removed from the reading list "due to the use of the N word." EL34x4 Oct 2017 #5

Probably replaced it with a King James Version. n/t KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2017 #6

HAB911

(8,919 posts)

1. Doncha hate delicate snowflakes?

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sat Oct 14, 2017, 12:51 PM

Oct 2017

Irish_Dem

(47,495 posts)

2. People with a conscience are ashamed at their bad behavior, and don't white wash reality.

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sat Oct 14, 2017, 12:56 PM

Oct 2017

They take responsibility for what they have done and try to make it right.

Cirque du So-What

(25,994 posts)

3. The audacity!

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sat Oct 14, 2017, 01:00 PM

Oct 2017

A black man having the right to representation and a fair trial in court?!? What about southern heritage!

NBachers

(17,149 posts)

4. They feel threatened by the part where Atticus shoots the rabid dog.

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sat Oct 14, 2017, 02:01 PM

Oct 2017

EL34x4

(2,003 posts)

5. Removed from the reading list "due to the use of the N word."

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sat Oct 14, 2017, 02:07 PM

Oct 2017

As I suspected.

http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article178572326.html

Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has often found itself on "banned books" lists.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,496 posts)

6. Probably replaced it with a King James Version. n/t

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sat Oct 14, 2017, 02:22 PM

Oct 2017

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