Laura Ingalls Wilder's name pulled from library award over stereotypical in her popular books

[JoeB131]

White Washing ... comes to mind

The term I use is "Disneyfying". We tend to Disneyfy a lot of our history.

 

[miketx]

Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is set to be removed from a major children's book award after concerns were raised about the "Little House on the Prairie" author's depiction of certain races in the early-to-mid 20th century.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's name pulled from library award over 'stereotypical attitudes' in her popular books
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As you leftist Hitlers use to laugh at all the other pro Trump people getting their sites shut down, or gettng banned as you watch people getting kicked off sites because your cowardly asses reported them well all that time you thougght you were so specail cause your not a Trump supporter , welll it kinda looks like BLOW BACK IS GONNA be easting you hypocirtes alive bhaahah.

And the actor who played her is a libwit politician wanna be.

 

[Sunni Man]

What people who want to ban historical authors and books that fail to meet todays PC standards don't understand..

Is that they are invaluable time capsules into people attitudes and behaviors for the time period they were written. ...

 

[cnm]

Just like when I had to read parts of Huckleberry Finn in HS, they did not include the parts where the N-word was used with Fuhrman like abandon.

I'm amazed you weren't required to read the whole novel. I was never assigned part of a book.

 

[Sahba]

White Washing ... comes to mind

The term I use is "Disneyfying". We tend to Disneyfy a lot of our history.

I absolutely agree with that assertion... lol

 

[cnm]

What people who want to ban historical authors and books that fail to meet todays PC standards don't understand..

So, what do you think of Wilder's novels?

 

[Sunni Man]

What people who want to ban historical authors and books that fail to meet todays PC standards don't understand..

So, what do you think of Wilder's novels?

The issue isn't whether I like her books or not. (I'm not a literary critic) ...

 

[cnm]

Actually I'm finding a lot of similarity in Wilder's first novel as in the little bit of the first Harry Potter I was able to read - I couldn't finish it - whole pages given to descriptions of clothes. Give me strength...

 

[cnm]

The issue isn't whether I like her books or not.

What the fuck did you think of them?

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Here's the thing, most people don't read the book unless they are assigned excerpts from it (usually sanitized ones that are less genocide). Just like when I had to read parts of Huckleberry Finn in HS, they did not include the parts where the N-word was used with Fuhrman like abandon.

And what is the purpose of sanitizing the text books? And could this possibly be why some people today think that slavery and the times past "weren't that bad" in terms of how black people were treated because history has been whitewashed to a certain extent?

 

[cnm]

Well, finished the first of the series. One can tell the author is female, even if one didn't know. Pages of lists of clothes and food. I might read another.

 

[Intolerant]

O my... I guess by that infallible logic I should also be castigated for every atrocity that has been perpetrated by this Nation since 1776... lol !!! (it's called expedient cherry picking)

Um. No.

The thing is, her genocidal views kind of reflect what people thought in the 19th century. Today we all know what was done to Native Americans was a crime against humanity.

So we have a lot of tedious literature from the19th century that treats slave holding and the genocide of the Native Americans as something that was either good or benign, how do we handle that in teaching kids in the 21st century.

So how are future readers to know what the times were like back then if those books aren't available anymore?

It’s called erasing history. And creating their own version.

 

[cnm]

Oh. Saw no evidence of racism or bigotry in the first of her series.

 

[Sunni Man]

The issue isn't whether I like her books or not.

What the fuck did you think of them?

Now...now, Sally....don't get your panties all twisted in a bunch. ...

 

[Coyote]

Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is set to be removed from a major children's book award after concerns were raised about the "Little House on the Prairie" author's depiction of certain races in the early-to-mid 20th century.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's name pulled from library award over 'stereotypical attitudes' in her popular books
-----------------------------------------''

As you leftist Hitlers use to laugh at all the other pro Trump people getting their sites shut down, or gettng banned as you watch people getting kicked off sites because your cowardly asses reported them well all that time you thougght you were so specail cause your not a Trump supporter , welll it kinda looks like BLOW BACK IS GONNA be easting you hypocirtes alive bhaahah.

That's ridiculous! I loved those books growing up - you have to understand the times they were written in....utterly stupid

 

[Coyote]

Yep. Her books are sure to be removed.

With any luck. They really aren't very good. Kind of tedious to read through.

Tell me any kid who wouldn't rather read a Harry Potter book than a "Little House on the Prairie".

My guess is, most of the wingnuts here haven't read them, they just remember the highly DISNEYFIED TV show from the 1970's...

I read them.

 

[Natural Citizen]

It figures it's be something like that.

 

[night_son]

Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is set to be removed from a major children's book award after concerns were raised about the "Little House on the Prairie" author's depiction of certain races in the early-to-mid 20th century.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's name pulled from library award over 'stereotypical attitudes' in her popular books
-----------------------------------------''

As you leftist Hitlers use to laugh at all the other pro Trump people getting their sites shut down, or gettng banned as you watch people getting kicked off sites because your cowardly asses reported them well all that time you thougght you were so specail cause your not a Trump supporter , welll it kinda looks like BLOW BACK IS GONNA be easting you hypocirtes alive bhaahah.

Um, so what?

So guess what, views change over time, and a lot of things she wrote really do seem racist today.

Opinion | Don’t overlook the racist content in this book series

One of the most egregious examples of this racism occurs in “Little House on the Prairie,” when Wilder states that her mother believed that “the only good Indian was a dead Indian.” There are numerous other examples of Ma Ingalls’s racism — highlighted by the illustrations by Garth Williams of fierce-looking Indians — found in that same book. Less overt is the racism contained in the second paragraph of “Little House in the Big Woods,” when Wilder details her surroundings and neglects to mention the presence of American Indians who also lived there: “There were no houses. There were no roads. There were no people. There were only trees and the wild animals who had their homes among them.”

Think Fahrenheit 451. Do you really think you can change history by hiding or destroying it? Do you want to?

 

[Coyote]

Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is set to be removed from a major children's book award after concerns were raised about the "Little House on the Prairie" author's depiction of certain races in the early-to-mid 20th century.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's name pulled from library award over 'stereotypical attitudes' in her popular books
-----------------------------------------''

As you leftist Hitlers use to laugh at all the other pro Trump people getting their sites shut down, or gettng banned as you watch people getting kicked off sites because your cowardly asses reported them well all that time you thougght you were so specail cause your not a Trump supporter , welll it kinda looks like BLOW BACK IS GONNA be easting you hypocirtes alive bhaahah.

Um, so what?

So guess what, views change over time, and a lot of things she wrote really do seem racist today.

Opinion | Don’t overlook the racist content in this book series

One of the most egregious examples of this racism occurs in “Little House on the Prairie,” when Wilder states that her mother believed that “the only good Indian was a dead Indian.” There are numerous other examples of Ma Ingalls’s racism — highlighted by the illustrations by Garth Williams of fierce-looking Indians — found in that same book. Less overt is the racism contained in the second paragraph of “Little House in the Big Woods,” when Wilder details her surroundings and neglects to mention the presence of American Indians who also lived there: “There were no houses. There were no roads. There were no people. There were only trees and the wild animals who had their homes among them.”

Think Fahrenheit 451. Do you really think you can change history by hiding or destroying it? Do you want to?

People have to understand and read books in the context of their times - not judge them by today's moral standards. Otherwise how many great books would be removed? Most I would think.

 

[Rustic]

Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is set to be removed from a major children's book award after concerns were raised about the "Little House on the Prairie" author's depiction of certain races in the early-to-mid 20th century.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's name pulled from library award over 'stereotypical attitudes' in her popular books
-----------------------------------------''

As you leftist Hitlers use to laugh at all the other pro Trump people getting their sites shut down, or gettng banned as you watch people getting kicked off sites because your cowardly asses reported them well all that time you thougght you were so specail cause your not a Trump supporter , welll it kinda looks like BLOW BACK IS GONNA be easting you hypocirtes alive bhaahah.

Um, so what?

So guess what, views change over time, and a lot of things she wrote really do seem racist today.

Opinion | Don’t overlook the racist content in this book series

One of the most egregious examples of this racism occurs in “Little House on the Prairie,” when Wilder states that her mother believed that “the only good Indian was a dead Indian.” There are numerous other examples of Ma Ingalls’s racism — highlighted by the illustrations by Garth Williams of fierce-looking Indians — found in that same book. Less overt is the racism contained in the second paragraph of “Little House in the Big Woods,” when Wilder details her surroundings and neglects to mention the presence of American Indians who also lived there: “There were no houses. There were no roads. There were no people. There were only trees and the wild animals who had their homes among them.”

Lol
Everyone of you progressives are pussy whipped bitches...
Progressives have a history of book burning... fact