Yes Jeet I'm definitely sure you were assigned Hofstadter in Canadian high school.
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I was! Doug Parker's Grade 13 American history class at Thistletown Collegiate in Etobicoke. It was the best. Also assigned Chomsky on Vietnam war, which was good.
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Agree on basic principle, but I also think you need to reach people where they are. I’m fine with YA fiction as a better than nothing and hopefully they’ll read deeper approach. While 1984 and Brave New World are better than Hunger Games, I’m OK with teenagers reading that alone.
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Though to be fair YA was pretty weak in the 80s
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Isn’t the point of YA that it’s intended for readers in the 10 to 13 age? The genre name is aspirational — young kids like reading about older kids; older kids imagine themselves young adults. It certainly seems that’s the main consumer group for the genre, and its reading level
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What the hell kinda fancy ass Canadian high school did you go to where they read stuff like that
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APT! The best!
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Freshman english reenacting scenes from Henry IV and Romeo & Juliette.
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Yeah, but you sometimes have heterodox opinions, so to them you're an example of what to avoid.
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Jeet's heterodoxy is derived from a grounding in WW2 era American consensus liberalism. It's wise to understand that's the framing of the Progressive movement and thus seems a bit backwards to more liberal revisionists today.
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