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user-inactivated  ·  3503 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why I Dropped Everything And Started Teaching Kendrick Lamar’s New Album

I did read the whole post. You don't have to be disrespectful to make your point.

The lady outright says that we accept Vonnegut despite his use of the word fuck because he is white. I'm saying that we accept him because he is a good writer and that we should study high art like you said.

And besides, even if he is white and is accepted as part of the literary canon, his book is commonly banned from schools specifically because of the use of the word fuck and its sexual situations.





galen  ·  3503 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I did read the whole post. You don't have to be disrespectful to make your point.

Didn't intend disrespect; I was genuinely curious. If I wanted to be snarky, it'd be much clearer than that.

I would need to get almost meaninglessly technical to refute the rest of your argument, so whatever. The long and short is that the two sentences in your second paragraph aren't contradictory.

PS Not a lady

user-inactivated  ·  3503 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    PS Not a lady

I totally did miss that. Whoops!