The whole Book Twitter meltdown over curriculum reform is textbook site fragility - unconsciously translating everything into catastrophic terms without even realizing they're doing it A book is being "burned" or "erased" or "discarded" if it's removed from required reading
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"Sure, the protagonist is *brutally tortured to death*, but he sticks to his principles! And *ACHIEVES* something by doing so!"
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Steinbeck's The Red Pony Who the Hell thought it was a good idea to make ten & eleven year olds read a book where the climactic scene is a man bashing in a labouring mare's face with a hammer? Argh!
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