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We're talking either 1930s or 1960, not only could you acknowledge racism, you could just be racist
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At least the comments replying to this person understand the story. TKAMB is literally all about the failure of one good white person to enact institutional change and is instead about how the silver lining is he's able to at least change his daughter's views about Boo Radley but the story is written from his daughter's POV and as Go Set a Watchmen shows Scout didnt grasp the full gravity of the racism of that era
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Go Set A Watchman was never meant to be published
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Yea but im saying that shows the author's mindset
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Alright BIPOC
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Not even institutional change. Atticus isn't an activist, he never advocates for civil rights, he just wants his client to have a fair trial and the jury to actually pay attention to the evidence. That's merely upholding the law within the current system and institutions.
His client was innocent and he makes the most convincing arguments for it, but neither the jurors nor anyone in town can let go their prejudices.
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Good catch there
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I'll admit I never read it, but I thought Go Set a Watchmen sounded like a more interesting story than TKAM
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GSaW is more adult than TKaM imo. Mockingbird is a well written kids book about prejudice, Go Set tackles more realistic prejudices
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lol just stating the goal is to make white people feel guilty.
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It was never a woke book.
A white savior would have been a perfect anti-racist civil rights activist, which isn't what Atticus Finch was.
We have no idea what Atticus social views are (if he's a racist, if he believes miscegenation should be legal, if he would share the same potty with a black person) but considering he's a middle aged Southern lawyer in the 1930s they probably aren't progressive.
But Atticus is a good man who believes that the law applies to everyone. He defends a black man accused of r*pe because someone has to, he then gets convinced he's innocent and figures out the father of the girl r*ped her. He does that because it's the right thing to do even within their racist system.
He explicitly asks the jury to set aside their own prejudices and focus on the evidence. The black pill is that no one in town gives a flying frick about the law and already decided that the BIPOC is guilty, much like modern woketards who presuppose all whites are guilty of racism.
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Thank you, I mistyped
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Atticus is a representation of the glory of the Constitution and the light of America being the shiny city on A hill. The story shows that even the lowly negro gets fair representation on our great nation and that even tho the sins of demons are around, a true man of Christ armed with a Bible and the Bill of Rights will triumph over evil in America
Attiicus's personal failing in the community shows that the eternal soul of America is in all of us and Patriotism must flourish in the next generation. And excellent modern remake could be set in the anti American communist chaos of BLM with Atticus representing Kyle Rittenhouse blue lives matter
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Well that finally explains why the book is so butt
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I didn't even need to read the details to know that the mere act of portraying a male figure in a positive light would cause those fricking b-word harpies to mald and seethe about it.
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I hate that book because I had o read it a dozen times just to eek out a C grade book report on it
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