Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture.
We are now seeing efforts to ban classics of Western and American literature. These hallowed texts are suddenly being declared racist or sexist by preening moralists.
Heather Levine Massachusetts teacher
“Very proud to say we got the Odyssey removed from the curriculum this year!”
Christina Sommers
@CHSommers
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“Very proud to say we got the Odyssey removed from the curriculum this year!”
When I contacted Ms. Levine to confirm this, she replied that she found the inquiry “invasive.”
THIS—>”Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers & Twitter agitators are purging & propagandizing against classic texts—everything from Homer to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Dr. Seuss.” By
@MeghanGurdon
@WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/even-homer-gets-mobbed-11609095872
https://twitter.com/i/status/1374010753187946496
We are now seeing efforts to ban classics of Western and American literature. These hallowed texts are suddenly being declared racist or sexist by preening moralists.
Heather Levine Massachusetts teacher
“Very proud to say we got the Odyssey removed from the curriculum this year!”
Christina Sommers
@CHSommers
·
“Very proud to say we got the Odyssey removed from the curriculum this year!”
When I contacted Ms. Levine to confirm this, she replied that she found the inquiry “invasive.”
THIS—>”Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers & Twitter agitators are purging & propagandizing against classic texts—everything from Homer to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Dr. Seuss.” By
@MeghanGurdon
@WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/even-homer-gets-mobbed-11609095872
https://twitter.com/i/status/1374010753187946496