Classic American novels removed from Welsh curriculum due to racism concerns

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  • Опубліковано 27 гру 2024

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  • @charlesbeltington-smythe9229
    @charlesbeltington-smythe9229 2 дні тому +26

    These kids hear far worse from popular rap music 🙄

  • @LorisSawmill
    @LorisSawmill 2 дні тому +20

    I wonder if they will remove Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain also for racial slurs. Or have they already removed it. And Huckleberry Finn?

    • @LorisSawmill
      @LorisSawmill 2 дні тому

      @@nwhite3080 I know. Both books are Public Domain and can be altered and corrupted any way one wants.
      Black people use that word talking to each other, but if a white person uses, that's hate speech.

    • @frzstat
      @frzstat День тому

      I can't imagine they are allowed to read Huck Finn, and it's a great book.

  • @JeffAPierson
    @JeffAPierson 2 дні тому +15

    words should be banned because of feelings?

    • @eddy66t6
      @eddy66t6 День тому

      Who's banning anything?
      They're taking them off the syllabus, it doesn't mean you can't read them, it means you're not being *forced* to read them

    • @prezidenttrump5171
      @prezidenttrump5171 День тому

      @@eddy66t6 Keep making excuses for censorship.

  • @Uncommonsenses
    @Uncommonsenses 2 дні тому +9

    These books were removed because of racism, modern day racism.

    • @al28854
      @al28854 День тому

      book banning is not that much diff. than with the 'red' states here in the US, have you been to Florida lately?

    • @Uncommonsenses
      @Uncommonsenses День тому

      @ Floridian idiots do not make Welsh idiots any more justified.

  • @KevinTumlinson
    @KevinTumlinson 2 дні тому +7

    "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." -Edmund Burke

    • @al28854
      @al28854 День тому +2

      "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

    • @KevinTumlinson
      @KevinTumlinson День тому

      @@al28854 I've been misquoting and misattributing this for a very long time, apparently.

    • @doberski6855
      @doberski6855 День тому +1

      @@al28854 I think that book was banned last year in Wales.😁Yes kidding!😂

    • @doberski6855
      @doberski6855 День тому +1

      @@KevinTumlinson You were close sir. Burke said 'Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it'.

    • @prezidenttrump5171
      @prezidenttrump5171 День тому

      @@doberski6855 All you nerds in wheelchairs are being pedantic.

  • @everythingisfine9988
    @everythingisfine9988 2 дні тому +3

    And people say the extreme right and the extreme left have nothing in common. They have the most important thing in common. *Control*

    • @jr2904
      @jr2904 День тому

      They both hate Israel too

  • @KR-fy3ls
    @KR-fy3ls 2 дні тому +10

    It's 100% censorship

  • @TheBooban
    @TheBooban 2 дні тому +5

    If you have that opinion, the book is too smart for you. Better to stick with comic books.

  • @FiFo911
    @FiFo911 2 дні тому +3

    Nice, generations to come will never know. Nothing like covering your tracks using the very thing you're covering up. It's brilliant!

  • @chrislj2890
    @chrislj2890 2 дні тому +4

    Censorship is the norm for a Muslim country.

    • @Starssinger
      @Starssinger 7 годин тому

      Book banning is very popular in the US.

    • @chrislj2890
      @chrislj2890 6 годин тому

      @@Starssinger
      Mainly to keep deviant "progressive" filth away from children, not from adults.

  • @zackosborn1731
    @zackosborn1731 День тому +1

    Even the conservative counter response was still philosophically liberal. Both sides are represented by non-Welsh.

  • @TheTibetyak
    @TheTibetyak День тому +1

    Study more British works. They've never had a checkered past.

  • @rachelhill-kelley8555
    @rachelhill-kelley8555 23 години тому

    That’s a shame. These books imprinted on me to wholeheartedly reject racism but I am not a black American so I can empathize with feeling humiliated by the reading of these texts.

  • @joshuamusicant
    @joshuamusicant 2 дні тому +1

    #CompelledSpeech ≠ #FreeSpeech

  • @doberski6855
    @doberski6855 2 дні тому +4

    Can you call it censorship? The books are still available in Welsh and U.K. libraries and in bookstores in an uncensored or redacted form correct? A schoolboard is changing its required reading list happens. Are they removing the books from school libraries as well in Wales? Wonder what they going to do, or have done about teaching and reading Shakespeares 'Merchant of Venice' and 'Othello'?

    • @eddy66t6
      @eddy66t6 День тому +1

      You're right... Let's see how many of these appalled parents actually bring their kids to the library to read the "banned" books 😂😂😂

  • @b_ks
    @b_ks День тому

    It is certainly censorship.

  • @jr2904
    @jr2904 День тому

    It absolutely it is censorship and coddling

  • @jerryshelton1481
    @jerryshelton1481 День тому

    If they can't removed content of sexual nature then this is also illegal

  • @jaysonj9327
    @jaysonj9327 2 дні тому +1

    Baristas. Lots more baristas. Endless numbers of baristas. An eventual critical (societally fatal?) shortage however of critical thinkers in key jobs both for the private and public sectors.

    • @eddy66t6
      @eddy66t6 День тому

      😂😂😂😂😂
      You need to get out more, maybe not to Starbucks or Costa.

  • @diegoaespitia
    @diegoaespitia День тому

    wow, Of Mice and Men is one of my all time favorite books. i always quote the poem. i didnt care much for To Kill a Mockingbird. I thought it was kind of boring

  • @RobotNannyDiaries
    @RobotNannyDiaries 11 годин тому

    Def no HP Lovecraft or Sherlock Holmes then?

  • @raymond_luxury_yacht
    @raymond_luxury_yacht День тому

    Yup.

  • @eddy66t6
    @eddy66t6 День тому

    Oh come on guys, it's an *English* language class. Why would Welsh people want to read books by American writers.

    • @jr2904
      @jr2904 День тому +1

      Because we all speak English... The UK doesn't have a monopoly on classic English language novels. Only fools dismiss knowledge because of where it came from.

  • @Clark42EoC
    @Clark42EoC День тому

    Lol yet they love rap.