Gregory Peck about life. Lucky you.

Safe passage to you Ms. Lee.

RIP, Harper Lee

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On Fri Feb 19, 2016, 10:33 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Proof the sequel was a money grab.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1353133

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Disruptive flamebait on passing of an icon

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Feb 19, 2016, 10:36 AM, and the Jury voted 2-5 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I don't believe this is a slam against Ms. Lee. There was a lot of discussion months ago regarding some of the people around Ms. Lee taking advantage of her by trying to push the sequel when Ms. Lee herself did not seem to be interested in publishing it. Leave it.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I would leave it but the post lacks any sort of class and the poster should
have the good sense to take it down.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Insensitive and inappropriate.
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: OH. COME. ON. For the love of anything Holy, please stop with these baseless, juvenile level, STUPID alerts!!!!
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given

Read the original.

But I totally agree with #6 . . . what a dumb alert!

If you ever read the "sequel" you know where I was coming from in my post. Thanks for the jury.

no class. Just saying.

re: juror #6 In my 9 years on DU (with a different name at DU 2), you can count the number of alerts I've filed on one hand and have fingers left over.

Re: your rude post
1. Lee's death is proof of no such thing. As people approach death, sometimes they change their minds about things such as revealing things kept private for years, decades, even a lifetime. That may or may not be what happened in this situation. We will never know for sure.
1. There is a time and place for everything. Somebody's passing is neither the time nor place for your flamebait.

Silencing speech just because you don't like someone's opinion speaks volumes.

I thought alerts were for trolls, attackers and the profane. Apparently there are too many people who just want to silence speech they don't like with them.

#6, thank you.

hold protests.

The poster is welcome to his/her opinion and welcome to express it and discuss it. Just someplace else.

I have nothing further to say on this. I don't want this thread hijacked any further.

It could have used some editing but it was a powerful book and I'm glad Harper Lee lived to see it published. I was initially concerned about the stories saying she was being taken advantage of but after investigating it further I don't believe that was true. She herself said that those claims we're silly.

I came to believe the "concerns" were part of our tendancy to infantalize the elderly as if a woman like Harper Lee couldn't decide for herself that she wanted her story to be told. And, Go Set A Watchman was ultimately just that-her story. I love the TKAM Atticus and was disappointed by GSAW Atticus but, that's part of what made it so powerful. I'm glad Nelle Harper Lee finally got to be the hero of her own life story.

Remember all the books you had to read in high school literature classes....Mockingbird was one of the better ones...

Book and movie sparked my interest in reading.

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
-- Atticus Finch

Yes, that is real courage.

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I always considered Harper Lee to be Scout.

RIP

My thoughts go out to her friends and family. I am not sure that she has any family. If she does not, my thoughts go out to her friends and all the people she touched with her writing.

She had been fading for a while and horribly taken advantage of.

I read the book in high school and it was a great read.

One of my favorite books and movies.

One of many favorite lines from the movie.

So hated

RIP

That was my first adult book and it turned me into a reader. It opened up a whole new world to me as to how one can get completely lost in a book.

Go with the muses, dear lady.

I loved your books, very entertaining and well-written.

The Rose' which was a great movie. His books to much for me.