Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online

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• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another failure of anyone with any kind of responsibility to have a spine

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The book is explicitly anti racist. It’s depicting racism in a negative light. It’s pretty progressive for something written in the 30’s if anything.

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• drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What will we do with all the copies of the books already in schools?

  The English teachers will have to take them out the back and shoot them.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “tend the rabbits”

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  • MouldyCat@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The book hasn’t been banned, it’s just not been selected as a required or optional text in a new English qualification for Welsh schools. Steinbeck is a wonderful author and story-teller, and his stories provide a useful insight into America’s difficult recent past in regards to racial segregation (as well as other issues such as oppression of the poor). America is an important country, and it’s useful to understand why it remains such a damaged society with deep racial divides even today, but it’s not Wales is it.

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• OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hiding that racial slurs exist isn’t a way to stop racism.

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  • MouldyCat@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d say these books are important for anyone studying American literature - and probably essential for anyone studying American literature of the 20th Century.

    They’re not so important for Welsh pupils and don’t need to be included in a general English literature syllabus for 15-year-olds in the UK. The reasoning for choosing not to include these sorts of works in the list of required and optional texts for this specific qualification are pretty convincing IMO and I completely support it.

    No books are being banned from schools or anything like that. The article headline is I suspect just trying to get clicks from the anti-woke crowd.

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