Quote:CHICAGO – A division of the American Library Association has voted to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from a major children's book award over concerns with how the early-to-mid 20th century author portrayed blacks and Native Americans.

The Association for Library Service to Children's board made the unanimous decision Saturday at a meeting in New Orleans. The name has been changed to the Children's Literature Legacy Award.

The association says the work of Wilder — best known for her "Little House on the Prairie" novels — "includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC's core values."

The first award was given to Wilder in 1954. The ALSC says Wilder's work continues to be published and read but her "legacy is complex" and "not universally embraced."

The American Library Association is based in Chicago.

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been happening forever.........doesn't change the fact how silly and sick it is in scope

#sycophants or #psychophants..........pick ze poison

(06-24-2018 02:52 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  been happening forever.........doesn't change the fact how silly and sick it is in scope

#sycophants or #psychophants..........pick ze poison

They're socialists, when you remove a name like that, your a socialist.

(06-24-2018 02:54 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

(06-24-2018 02:52 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  been happening forever.........doesn't change the fact how silly and sick it is in scope

#sycophants or #psychophants..........pick ze poison

They're socialists, when you remove a name like that, your a socialist.

it's amazing this happens in today's schema......but then I realize I'm still breathing.....it's line 3

Laura Ingalls Wilder???



Who are these idiots?

(06-24-2018 03:03 PM)memphistiger89 Wrote:  Laura Ingalls Wilder???



Who are these idiots?

Liberals.

Ha! Here is this years Pulitzer winner for a Biography: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser

Quote:A deeply researched and elegantly written portrait of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House on the Prairie series, that describes how Wilder transformed her family’s story of poverty, failure and struggle into an uplifting tale of self-reliance, familial love and perseverance.

Rewriting history? I had absolutely no idea that changing the name of an award was the same as the burning of her books worldwide and the removal of her wikipedia page.

(06-24-2018 03:55 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  Rewriting history? I had absolutely no idea that changing the name of an award was the same as the burning of her books worldwide and the removal of her wikipedia page.

I could rewrite wiki if I had the gumption.......which I don't.....but that's simple me letting the written word be absorbed and represented by design.....

edit: I'm hitting on all 8 cylinders with hornets today......

(06-24-2018 03:56 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(06-24-2018 03:55 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  Rewriting history? I had absolutely no idea that changing the name of an award was the same as the burning of her books worldwide and the removal of her wikipedia page.

I could rewrite wiki if I had the gumption.......which I don't.....but that's simple me letting the written word be absorbed and represented by design.....

edit: I'm hitting on all 8 cylinders with hornets today......

You could, but if it's unfounded it will be reversed quickly.

(06-24-2018 04:04 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(06-24-2018 03:56 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(06-24-2018 03:55 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  Rewriting history? I had absolutely no idea that changing the name of an award was the same as the burning of her books worldwide and the removal of her wikipedia page.

I could rewrite wiki if I had the gumption.......which I don't.....but that's simple me letting the written word be absorbed and represented by design.....

edit: I'm hitting on all 8 cylinders with hornets today......

You could, but if it's unfounded it will be reversed quickly.

no question.....and then I could re-reverse it.......

it's actually quite enlightening how one should realize that waking up after good dump or wanking is good enough vs. just dicking about with hiss-TOE-ree.....

The culture war continues....

(06-24-2018 02:52 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  been happening forever.........doesn't change the fact how silly and sick it is in scope

#sycophants or #psychophants..........pick ze poison

If you don't want to find history books, or works of fiction that have been redacted to alter what at the time of their publication were inconvenient truths and public perceptions then you have to go to the archives section of the library and search titles in the computer or microfiche and read them in a private cubicle if you want to know the truth as it pertained to that era.

This goes for biblical interpretations that varied from what the PC modern era church wants to deal with or acknowledge and they say the church is supposed to represent the search for spiritual truth! Want Castro as a communist thug and villain then search the stacks on the Cuban revolution circa the 50's through the early 70's. If you want Castro as the over thrower of organized crime and crony capitalism in Cuba search everything from the '90's forward. Want Hitler as Time's man of the year search the early 30's. Want him as the worst viper of humanity search after 1941. Want to compare those who defeated the scourge of National Socialism to liberating saints then search everything pre 1968. Want to compare them to Hitler search everything after 1968. History has become the fiction that those who want to shape society today mold to fit their agenda. It's disgusting, for in it there is no truth at all, especially the truth that says fear those who twist words and lie about the past so that they can create out of it the bars of your future. Where truth dies (ugly or great) freedom dies.

That's not to say that in the past people writing news and histories didn't have their agendas also, but it is to say that if we confuse and cover the trail we have traveled then we are clueless as to where we are headed and that's never good. Read everything you can find with an open mind and discern the truth! If somebody wants to forbid a book to you read it. If somebody wants you to read a book, do so with an informed mind. Huckleberry Finn is a great book that highlights injustice but because the Author in the late 1800's uses a term that today is loaded what Twain had to say that was true about social injustice has been lost to a new generation because their delicate ears can't tolerate a word with impact and because those who think for them have deemed the book too troubling for their minds. Now how is this any different from the book burning bonfires of the Nazis? I've read many books that took me where I didn't want to go, made me uncomfortable, and forced me to walk in another's shoes. Some of the situations and image were offensive, but what it had to say broadened my thoughts and abetted my tolerance. No man should tell us what we can read, write, or think.

^ "No man should tell us what we can read, write, or think."

But they can keep people from learning how to read, write and think. It seems government run schools are becoming quite proficient at dumbing down America. Is it intentional or just the Visigoths invading? I don't know. Its ironic we may be entering a new dark age when information flows more freely than any time in human history.

(06-24-2018 07:06 PM)shere khan Wrote:  ^ "No man should tell us what we can read, write, or think."

But they can keep people from learning how to read, write and think. It seems government run schools are becoming quite proficient at dumbing down America. Is it intentional or just the Visigoths invading? I don't know. Its ironic we may be entering a new dark age when information flows more freely than any time in human history.

"do the due.....it's all you have left unless one enjoys being a ewe" - stinkfist

(06-24-2018 07:12 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(06-24-2018 07:06 PM)shere khan Wrote:  ^ "No man should tell us what we can read, write, or think."

But they can keep people from learning how to read, write and think. It seems government run schools are becoming quite proficient at dumbing down America. Is it intentional or just the Visigoths invading? I don't know. Its ironic we may be entering a new dark age when information flows more freely than any time in human history.

"do the due.....it's all you have left unless one enjoys being a ewe" - stinkfist

"They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game' -R.D. Laing

(06-24-2018 07:25 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(06-24-2018 07:12 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(06-24-2018 07:06 PM)shere khan Wrote:  ^ "No man should tell us what we can read, write, or think."

But they can keep people from learning how to read, write and think. It seems government run schools are becoming quite proficient at dumbing down America. Is it intentional or just the Visigoths invading? I don't know. Its ironic we may be entering a new dark age when information flows more freely than any time in human history.

"do the due.....it's all you have left unless one enjoys being a ewe" - stinkfist

"They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game' -R.D. Laing

"the beauty of the board personified".....

well done....

(06-24-2018 07:06 PM)shere khan Wrote:  ^ "No man should tell us what we can read, write, or think."

But they can keep people from learning how to read, write and think. It seems government run schools are becoming quite proficient at dumbing down America. Is it intentional or just the Visigoths invading? I don't know. Its ironic we may be entering a new dark age when information flows more freely than any time in human history.

Back in the days before our PC world in the old Auburn Veterinary Medicine building there was a quip on the wall. "You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think!" it was one of several, but memorable. It can't possibly be the Visigoths because this generation can't spell it. Therefore the only explanation is best stated with a Minion emoji. And the public education system is eaten alive with them, Minions that is. Again an old adage is proven to be true. Hell is the absence of reason.