Youngkin Ad Features Mom Whose Son Was Terrorized By Toni Morrison Novel | Talking Points Memo

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I still HAVE nigHT terrORs aboUT the GOVernment ENFORcing STATist CONTroLs on SUCCEssful BUSINEss afTER reaDING atlas SHRUgged.

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Suck it up, Buttercup.

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The Bible is very traumatizing and should be banned for all children until they are legal adults. We can’t let children read such vulgar and disgusting things (randomly picks things out of bible)

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Maybe it’s just me but this guy seems to fall on the Snowflake side.

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Give me a f***ing break. In my AP English class we read the following:

  1. Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novelized tale of the life (and the internal dialog) of the leader of the best-known slave rebellion.
  2. Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
  3. Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman (this after reading Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice).
  4. Barth, Giles Goat-Boy. (My teacher, Ms. Wolfe was heavily into post-modernism).
  5. Pynchon, V.

If you weren’t traumatized in that class, you weren’t paying attention.

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I had colleagues who used Beloved with HS sophomores. No trauma that I could see when I got them as juniors.
BTW, an AP class is designed to provide college level rigor. It’s part of the marketing. Whether or not that is what is provided is a discussion for another time, but when a student signs up for AP Lit, the understanding is that they will read challenging texts and respond to them. It’s the way the course is designed. I have never met an AP Lit teacher who wasn’t sensitive to the challenge of working with HS students who are dealing with difficult texts. Beloved is challenging, but that’s the course.
I can only assume that he was so damaged that he is now only fit to work for the the National Republican Congressional Committee. They must have provided him with a soft landing after the trauma of his high school lit class.

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They should have found a nice third-rate Bible college for this precious little feller. Correct me if I’m wrong, but if you have a bias against something, doesn’t that diminish your value as a witness against said offense? I thought that these people are against cancel culture! They’re flip-flopping. You should never elect a flip-flopper. I am confused, and Repugnant and Independent voters should be confused as well.

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Or any scene in Jerzy Kosiński’s The Painted Bird?

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To be honest, literature can trigger trauma in certain people. I don’t usually get too personal around here, but I’ll open up a bit for this one. I can honestly say that to this day I am still traumatized by Ted Cruz’s reading of “Green Eggs and Ham”. There I said it, and I’m not ashamed to be candid.

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What, no mention that the meeting about vaccines for ages 5-11 started at 8:30 today?

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They missed Trudeau’s Cabinet reshuffling announcement. It’s live in the CBC. Scintillating!

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Bet she loves herself some Huck Finn and its 219 nbombs…

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So, right… these fsckers have no sympathy, at all, for Blacks, and the way they have been, and still are, treated in our culture, but claim to be “traumatized” by reading about it.

The horrifying part about all this is that, seemingly, about half the population of our country lacks the cognitive ability to realize what a steaming, stinking pile of bull shit this is.

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Let’s see, Wikipedia sez McAuliffe assumed office on Jan 11, 2014 so who was governor back in 2013? Hmmm…looks like Republican Bob McDonnell.

The GQP really is the “Facts Don’t Matter” party.

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You aren’t alone in that. I was also offended by Cruz’s missing the point of that seminal work.

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It also occurs to me that this kid may have never had to deal with any challenging class, and, as it turns out, the SparkNotes online are not sufficient prep. Sometimes you have to actually read the book.
It’s been my experience that Hell hath no fury like a supposedly gifted child who is being challenged for the first time.

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To paraphrase George Carlin:

Think of how dumb the average person is. Then realize half the population are dumber.

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The student told the Post at the time that the book had given him nightmares because it was “disgusting and gross” and “hard for me to handle.”

The snowflake looks like you would expect…

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Can’t just not like Toni Morrison books because they’re not your thing, has to be something triggering about it?

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The only thing that can protect you against dangerous and scary ideas is even more dangerous and scary ideas.

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