[ SECRET POST #4168 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4168 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[South Park]



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02.
(The Scarlet Pimpernel 1999)


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03.
[Daniel Mallory Ortberg]


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04.
[Twin Peaks]


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05.
[Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg]


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06.
[Lip Sync Battle: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Channing Tatum, Tom Holland]


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07.
[Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez]












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Comments

[mrs_don_draper]

I don't think it needs anything other than a "Hey, this book is about a period in time and in a location where racism was acceptable, but I think it has merits in a number of ways. Just a heads up." As someone who read the book and loved the movie, I don't think it needs anything beyond that. I think most adults today know that Georgia in the first half of the 1900s was super racist.

[(Anonymous)]

Alabama, not Georgia.

But yeah, super racist.

[mrs_don_draper]

Darn! Thank you! Tbh, everything south of the Mason-Dixon is the same in terms of being super racist though.

[(Anonymous)]

I think most adults today know that Georgia in the first half of the 1900s was super racist.

If this thread is anything to go by, then that's a bad assumption on your part.

Granted, I'm with you and if I was going to "warn" for anything in that book it would be the domestic violence and/or cannibalism, but apparently you're history's greatest monster if you assume your friends have the barest inkling of America's history.

[(Anonymous)]

I know that the South is super racist, but I wouldn't necessarily assume that a book set in that location and time is going to deal with those themes.

[(Anonymous)]

No one accused you of being smart.

[(Anonymous)]

Mmmm... except it's more complicated than that. It's not just set in an era of racism, there are certain aspects of the portrayal that might not sit well with modern readers. For example, Flagg waaaaay downplays the KKK. It was okay for a character like Grady to be in the KKK, march in the KKK, but oh, he's not really racist because he doesn't mistreat the black people he knows personally.

It also arguably romanticizes an extremely problematic time period when you notice that most of the black characters are totally fine with being treated like second class citizens and it's not a bad thing because at least a few white people are good to them.