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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 12:51 PM Original message |
Racist children's literature |
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matcom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. .... |
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WindRavenX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 12:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. yikes |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 12:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Hell, I'd forgotten about that one |
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cmkramer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 09:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. The ironic thing |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 12:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. It wasn't a kid's book, but... |
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WindRavenX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 12:59 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. ! |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 01:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. And people wonder why there's so much racial tension |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 05:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. I knew that book as Ten Little Indians, but apparently the name has been changed more than once... |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 04:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. My mother still has a copy of that book |
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RumpusCat (548 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 08:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
24. I loved that book as a kid |
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slj0101 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
7. Have you ever read any original Brothers Grimm? |
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Kat45 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 05:48 PM Response to Reply #7 |
20. Those stories scared the shit out of me when I was little. |
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MistressOverdone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
8. That's why you won't find much |
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Dora (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 02:07 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Ah, now this is where the debate begins. |
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MistressOverdone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 02:11 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. He wrote in the context of his times |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 03:36 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. But that misses the whole point of the story |
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MistressOverdone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 03:52 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Yes, yes, he did |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 06:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. That's why it's so important for them to read it in school... |
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Dora (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
10. Drunken sot of a priest in "Old MacDonald's Farm" |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
11. In Roald Dahl's "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory", the Oompa-Loompas |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 03:39 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Interesting - I didn't know that |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 04:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. I'm crushed. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-10-07 04:05 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Well Tim Burton did a better job with the book than that Gene Wilder crap |
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Sabriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 05:06 PM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Same for Babar |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
22. My grandmother had that book! |
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