pfife Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 (edited) just your garden variety tourist rioting Edited October 27, 2021 by pfife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 We've come a long way from Dr. Seuss lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerbomb13 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Cancel culture for me, but not for thee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Cider House Rules is one of my favorite novels along with a Prayer for Owen Meany. My philosophy is once you’ve reached 11th or 12th grade you should be preparing yourself for the real world and not hiding behind mommy’s trousers. That doesn’t seem to be the way anymore. A bit like folks on Nextdoor or whatever complaining about age guidelines for door to door trick or treating. Snowflakes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Can I claim disability if I say I was triggered by Crime and Punishment 50 years ago. What about The Heart of Darkness or The Pearl? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 I came upon this list for Advanced American Studies. How many books on this list do the current crop of Dingleberries want banned… https://www.uni-due.de/amerikanistik/basic_reading_list.php John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630). Anne Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book” (1650). Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (1773). * Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography (1771-90, 1868). Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence” (1776). Washington Irving, “Rip van Winkle” (1819). Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845). Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849) Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” (1845), “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839). Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” (1835), * The Scarlet Letter (1850). Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851), “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853). Emily Dickinson, “Much Madness is divinest Sense—,” “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died,” “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—” (publ. posthumously, 1955). Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1860), “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” (1865), “Song of Myself” (1881). Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881). * Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892). Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat” (1897). Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899). Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” (1914), “Birches” (1915). T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), The Waste Land (1922). Ezra Pound, “Portrait d’une Femme” (1912), “In a Station of the Metro” (1913), “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” (1920). Eugene O’Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night (1940). * F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925). Ernest Hemingway, The Sun also Rises (1926). William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929). Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). * Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). * Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949). Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952). * Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream” (1963). Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” (1956). Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957) Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). John Barth, “Life Story” (1968). * Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (1987). August Wilson, Fences (1986). Louise Erdrich, “Fleur” (1986). Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (1990). Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles (1990). * Tony Kushner, Angels in America (1992). T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain (1995). Philip Roth, The Human Stain (2000). Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991), Caramelo (2002). Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2006). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 21 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said: Cancel culture for me, but not for thee Beginning to think all the talk about "snowflakes" and "safe spaces" was all projection all along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 11 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: Can I claim disability if I say I was triggered by Crime and Punishment 50 years ago. What about The Heart of Darkness or The Pearl? I'm about to start on "the Coddling of the American Mind" I put it on my Kindle so no-one on Campus will catch me carrying it around......🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 One would assume the top priorities would be education and making money… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Can some tell me how "They Called Themselves the KKK" ended up on the blacklist? What's the objection there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 3 minutes ago, mtutiger said: Can some tell me how "They Called Themselves the KKK" ended up on the blacklist? What's the objection there? white people are too sensitive and don't want to know that white people were bad once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted October 27, 2021 Author Share Posted October 27, 2021 1 hour ago, mtutiger said: Beginning to think all the talk about "snowflakes" and "safe spaces" was all projection all along. It always is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted October 27, 2021 Author Share Posted October 27, 2021 1 hour ago, mtutiger said: We've come a long way from Dr. Seuss lol I've been re-reading Colin Woodard's American Nations book, and this tweet reminds me what he wrote about those people whom he termed as Borderlanders: basically the Scottish, Northern Irish, and northern English settlers of Appalachia and their descendants: "While hostile to external restraints on their behavior, the Borderlanders could be uncompromising in enforcing their own internal cultural norms. Dissent or disagreement—whether by neighbors, wives, children, or political opponents—was unacceptable and often crushed savagely." So, see? "Cancellation for thee but not for me" didn't come out of nowhere. It has a long and rich cultural history with these people, who have been very successful exporting this way of thinking throughout a good chunk of the United States, in large part through their colonization of interior First Nations territory. I think it has also caught on with Americans who are not of that national stock because of the rugged individualism associated with them that has been romanticized as the one true American cultural ideal. IOW, people who think it makes them look cool to be rough and tough on others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerbomb13 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Jesus Christ. It’s only a matter of time before one of these nutcases starts a terrorist attack. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 The defense is off to a great start in Charlottesville for the Unite The Right trial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 (edited) 7 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: The defense is off to a great start in Charlottesville for the Unite The Right trial this would be a great concept. Juries of thieves only for thieves, murderers only for murderers. - Yeah, let's go with this! Edited October 27, 2021 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfife Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 4 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said: Cancel culture for me, but not for thee wait just a second. are you saying that the republicans have standards the republicans don't follow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfife Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 4 hours ago, mtutiger said: Beginning to think all the talk about "snowflakes" and "safe spaces" was all projection all along. lol "Beginning"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfife Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Tigerbomb13 said: Jesus Christ. It’s only a matter of time before one of these nutcases starts a terrorist attack. that's an incredible clip. I love how Kirk denounces it...... not because murder is bad, but because that murder would be falling into the Democrats' trap. That's why he denounces it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerbomb13 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 1 hour ago, pfife said: that's an incredible clip. I love how Kirk denounces it...... not because murder is bad, but because that murder would be falling into the Democrats' trap. That's why he denounces it. Yep. The optics of terrorism are worse than the actual murdery part Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pfife Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 No wonder barely no one shows up here to defend this shit. Too bad they still vote for it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfife Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Hell yes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfife Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 BELIEVE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Jan. 6th: Overblown and no big deal, yet also a false flag perpetrated by agitators Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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