IDK what this Atticus Finch thing even is. AF was never an antiracist paragon, he was just better than the people he made excuses for
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I know Malcolm Gladwell is iffy but I think this article is exactly right on Finch http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/10/the-courthouse-ring …
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But I read TKAM at age 27 so I don't have the childhood attachment to it that other people do.
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Actually I find the way Finch encourages jury to "swap one set of prejudices for another" pretty distasteful and not heroic
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The way Tom Robinson is almost wholly noble and the Ewells, including Mayella, written as utterly dirty, trashy and bad.
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For a children's book of its time and place, yes fine OK, but it's steeped in respectability politics.
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I imagine a lot of white people love TKAM and still think Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin were thugs who deserved to get shot.
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And that's not really inconsistent with the message of the book.
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@fortyfs Bingo.
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