Cancel culture; Snowflakes

On Wednesday, CNN reported that parents affiliated with a right-wing group in Tennessee are objecting to the teaching of multiple books about the Civil Rights movement — because it makes their students "feel discomfort" with their own whiteness."

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"Two tell the story of Ruby Bridges, a 6-year-old who integrated an elementary school in New Orleans in 1960. 'Ruby Bridges Goes To School,' written for elementary school students by Bridges herself, is fine for kids to read, Steenman says. But she says teachers should not be allowed to lead discussions of the pictures in the book — one of which is the famous Norman Rockwell painting of Ruby, the US Marshals who had to protect her from an angry segregationist White crowd, and the ugly slur hurled at her by adults."

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"There's no need to emphasize it," Steenman said, referring to the drawing of the N-word above Bridges in the painting. "Just, you know, if they want to read 'this book has a famous painting,' fine. And then just move on.

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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.