https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1453659561882054657
βThe Ottawa School Board removed the classic, Lord of the Flies, from its curriculum after its advisory committee on equity agreed with a student who said the bookβs themes were outdated and too focused on white, male power structures.β
— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) October 28, 2021
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lol removing margaret atwood's books SURELY had nothing to do with her being called a TERF recently
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They removed To Kill a Mockingbird?! I'm pretty sure they missed the entire point of that book.
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But it has a g*mer word in it
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Stunning and brave decision by the Ottawa School Board, itβs our duty as Canadians to dismantle white male power structures.
This comment was posted from the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation whose presence here reaches back to time immemorial.
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Those indigenous intros to everything recently are a perfect example of these kinds of politics. Lots of words and phony respect and absolutely zero practical change.
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The natives in Vancouver building a sneed-producing high rise on a chunk of land they have that completely ignores local zoning height restrictions was very based
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that's the most neoliberal thing i've ever heard
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Live by seeking returns, die by seeking returns
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literally 1984
From my heart in ink still bleeding: have this comment. Thanks for reading.
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β George Orwell, 1984
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Good, lotf is more of the cynical misery porn kids are inundated with in school. Better that they read some pablum about how slubbery was bad.
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William
Golding was based 
as frick. He wrote Lord of the Flies 
while working 
as a school 
teacher. His primary inspiration was how much he hated the kids he was teaching.
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I really liked it, I even started reading it again the same day as I finished it to process it better.
Must have been because there were no basketballs in it.
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canadians are subhuman
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Yep hierarchies are a white construct.
The native American and black societies unironically held hands and sang kumbaya yes sirreee
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"student"
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No, I'm a citizen of the global south, and on behalf of everyone here, frick America. We all support China here, because they help us economically, not invade our homes and kill our children.
Just because I'm a leftist doesn't mean everything the media tells you is true. There are literally wikileaks documents and youtube videos debunking the massacre of Tiananmen Square, and the US embassy in Beijing itself admitted there was no massacre, and everyone trying to prove this in the media gets killed by the CIA.
Snapshots:
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