So the conservative argument in 2018 was: don’t stop teaching white-authored classics just because the n-word is used in them! Children of all races need these uncomfortable lessons! Now they argue that any book that might make white kids feel angst must be banned.
https://twitter.com/diegodarwin2021/status/1493826247402606594
So Black kids need to accept hearing the n-word read in English class, because they shouldn’t let “feelings” get in the way of exposure to great literature; but white kids shouldn’t ever have to hear that any white person at any time ever used the n-word in hostility or racism.
How is this not a blatant argument for using public education to build up the egos of white children while chipping away at the psyches of every other child, by normalizing hearing slurs against them but shielding white kids from all history that might bring any discomfort?
It’s the same supremacist logic that says Black taxpayers must accept stone icons, in front of the capitols and courthouses and parks they frequent, that were deliberately installed to psychologically reverse the results of the Civil War and drive home their second class status…
…and taking down those monuments to a war fought LITERALLY to preserve eternal enslavement based solely on race and racial hierarchy is an offense to the respect for history. Yet states should BAN teaching the #1619Project because a fulsome account of enslavement is treachery.
If this isn’t an attempt to cement racial hierarchy, from the kiddie school on up, I don’t know what is.
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