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Originally Posted by anamardoll
S&M, the issue is not that "Mormon history is unpleasant", the issue is that we don't KNOW if Mormon history includes cold-blooded community-based murders, as this book entails. There's evidence on either side, and in a literary introduction to Sherlock Holmes, teaching the historical controversy is likely to eclipse the literary material.
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I was talking more about the prejudicial aspect. You don't need to teach the controversy in a class where it doesn't belong.
"There is no accepted answer to that question at this time."
Done.
They gotta learn that grown-ups are humans that don't know everything sooner or later. Hell, Holmes' imperfection is a great opportunity for that particular lesson.