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The New Book Burners: Blaming Trump, Two NJ Dem Lawmakers Want Schools to Stop Teaching ‘Huckleberry Finn’

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The Politico did a fairly in-depth piece today on a move by two Democratic state lawmakers in New Jersey to get teachers to stop teaching “Huckleberry Finn”:

So the book was not a motivator in the incident in question but we’re still going to hold it up as an example of something that could potentially be a motivator, I guess?

Here’s the summary statement from the resolution:

Reynolds-Jackson also cited President Trump as a factor in her decision to co-sponsor this resolution:

Attempts at getting educators to stop teaching this book have been going on for decades, but it’s only in the last few that we’ve seen a shift in the rationale – mainly due to the players involved.

Remember the book-burning scene from the 1984 movie “Footloose”?

In the 70s in 80s, religious groups like the Moral Majority wanted books like “Huckleberry Finn” banned because they found them crude. They moved on, but their modern-day equivalents on the left target it because they believe the use of the “n” word in the book makes it racist.

This is really silly, and ridiculously ignorant on top of everything else. As Politico also points out:

That this is a non-binding resolution means nothing. Non-binding can turn into mandatory over a period of time, especially if legislators aren’t satisfied that their initial efforts produced the results they wanted to see.

I can understand the desire to age-restrict it in the classroom to, say, 14 years and up, because the sensitive material and lessons from it would be easier digested by older students. But calling for it to be pulled – full-stop – from classrooms does students and teachers alike a disservice.

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