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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
2. I still don't get the lose money thing.
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There's at least one poster in this thread who's said that they prefer not to read books with very offensive language. But I was thinking more about the gift market. You need a gift for someone you don't know all that well, but you know they read, so you pick something you have nostalgic feelings about, and that you know is well written.
...and at the next family dinner, your niece is looking at you weirdly, and mentions that the book you gave her mentioned Black people using the n-word or described a Jew as "fond of money like all of her race". I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty embarrassed, and would never again buy books by that author for anyone but myself.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
So I still think the bowderization, and trigger warnings, probably come from staff who sincerely believe in what is, to me, a 1984-light appoach to literature of the past.
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I think 1984-light fits better to describe Scholatic's demand to remove the word "racism"
(post #264) (and to the majority of book bannings from libraries and schools, but that's more of a topic for Politics and religion).