[ SECRET POST #1482 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1482 ⌋

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Notes:

Sorry, fixed the date on the subs post. It should have read "first secret post will be January 29th," not the 22nd.

Secrets Left to Post: 14 pages, 332 secrets from Secret Submission Post #212.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 3 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[cherrycoloured.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it make more sense, then, to just not read the book instead of changing it? Even if you take out the offensive word, the book is still racist. It's not like there aren't other (and better) ways of teaching students about racism.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, since that would involve uprooting the entire white-supremacist educational system, eviscerating its ideals and deconstructing its reverence for white male "classic" authors...

yeah. That'll happen.

Baby steps.

[cherrycoloured.livejournal.com]

I think that there are correct baby steps though, and I think that getting rid of an offensive word is not it. It's like putting concealer on a huge pimple. Yes, I agree that getting rid of the institutionalized racism (and sexism, since you brought up gender) in the schools is difficult, but I don't think this by itself is a good first step. Maybe teaching this book and talking about why that word is offensive, and why it was changed, or, even better, teaching this book along side a book about racism in the same time period written by a black person. But just changing the word alone doesn't really do anything to fight racism. Yes, it does make black students more comfortable, and I will agree that for that reason it is a good idea. But my fear is that a lot of people (mostly white people) will this is as the end result, not baby steps, and will be patting themselves on the back for this.