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s0nicfan 09/19/18 9:41:27 AM #49:	scar the 1 posted... s0nicfan posted... Is "To Kill a Mockingbird" racist because it uses the N-word? And if so, should we remove it from school reading lists because the author is a racist? Authorial intent and context MATTERS. No..? But absent authorial intent, if someone perceives the book as racist, you've stripped yourself of the ability to say they're wrong. Now they can say you're supporting inclusion of racist texts in schools because their perspective that the author and book is racist, based on their own subjective experiences, and you don't have the ability to disagree. Public perception shapes policy, and deconstructionist critical analysis is absolutely destructive in that regard, because it creates a society where everyone is right, but we still can only have rules that apply evenly to everyone. Who's perspective gets to be the one that shapes everyone else's life in that world? --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:909046121] in Sesame Str... [t:77018421]...</cite> <quote><cite>scar the 1 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>s0nicfan posted...</cite> <quote>Is "To Kill a Mockingbird" racist because it uses the N-word? And if so, should we remove it from school reading lists because the author is a racist? Authorial intent and context MATTERS.</quote> No..?</quote> But absent authorial intent, if someone perceives the book as racist, you've stripped yourself of the ability to say they're wrong. Now they can say you're supporting inclusion of racist texts in schools because their perspective that the author and book is racist, based on their own subjective experiences, and you don't have the ability to disagree. Public perception shapes policy, and deconstructionist critical analysis is absolutely destructive in that regard, because it creates a society where everyone is right, but we still can only have rules that apply evenly to everyone. Who's perspective gets to be the one that shapes everyone else's life in that world? --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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