MouldyCat
@MouldyCat@feddit.uk
- Comment on Axel Rudakubana: 'Evil' Southport killer jailed for minimum 52 years 1 week ago:
I want to add my tuppence worth as well. Even if one day we have a justice system that can be 100.000% certain of guilt AND 100% certain that there is no chance of rehabilitation, I think we should still not have the death penalty, because I don’t think spending the energy and time killing individuals in cold blood is a healthy way for a society to behave. This Rudakubana guy may be some kind of monster, but that doesn’t mean that acting monstrously towards him is somehow acceptable.
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 5 weeks ago:
It’s interesting isn’t it? “Guys” can include women, and can even be a group of only women, but you can’t talk about a single woman as a guy - “I snogged this gorgeous guy last night”.
- Comment on Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
No previous generation has ever wanted to spend time with family and friends before! This is unprecedented!! Every single old person has only ever wanted to go to work and help create value for shareholders by fucking over the disadvantaged!!!