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    The New Yorker‏Verified account @NewYorker 9 Sep 2015

    "Lord of the Flies" gets a politically correct re-write, in @tnyshouts: http://nyr.kr/1QoOjff pic.twitter.com/DrsJJ6PdNX

    6:43 PM - 9 Sep 2015
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      1. Jordy Aquino‏ @JordyAqui_no 9 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts Wow, what a pc world we live in today. Fuck this bullshit is what I say.

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      1. Onelove‏ @onelove6113 9 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts best book ever - doesn't need any help!

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      1. Karen Dugan‏ @mrsduges 9 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts PERFECT reflection of our PC world...especially on today's university campus. My poor kids...

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      1. Lisa O‏ @lisaomalleyca 9 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker kind defeats the whole point, doesn't it?

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      1. GodandtheBear‏ @GodandtheBear 9 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts But the whole point of the plot is to display the ugly human traits so how?😵

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      1. Martin Dunphy‏ @martindunphy 9 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts Fun for about three grafs.

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      1. Guardian A.V.‏ @Ad_Veritatem 9 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @kurt_loder @tnyshouts obviously the point of the book went over their heads

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      1. Telisha Garris‏ @TRGarris 9 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts - so its down to two words? The End?

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      1. jason arts‏ @jaybird3629 9 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts yay cause there's no more new ideas for movies. Meh

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      2. Robert‏ @fluxc80 10 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @Biorealism @tnyshouts I guess they fear children will learn something from it.

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      3. Robert‏ @fluxc80 10 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @Biorealism @tnyshouts Ah It was done for fun I see. Not from the PC field. :)

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      4. Robert‏ @fluxc80 10 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @Biorealism @tnyshouts Changing the content of books is not uncommon ideas so I thought it was a real attempt to manipulate it.

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      1. bree  📌  💙 hotwings au 🔥‏ @breemeup 13 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts Goldman was criticizing people like the author, pity that went over his head

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      1. bree  📌  💙 hotwings au 🔥‏ @breemeup 13 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts sad to say, but high schoolers have a better grasp of the themes and intentions of this book than u do

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      1. bree  📌  💙 hotwings au 🔥‏ @breemeup 13 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts like Golding was critiquing Britain's ethnocentrism, imperialism, and rich school boy culture.

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      1. bree  📌  💙 hotwings au 🔥‏ @breemeup 13 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts "we reject your Eurocentric imposition of the jungle-rescue narrative.” - literally the point of the og book lmao

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      1. Duncan Irschick‏ @duncanirschick 12 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts laughed so hard when I read this!

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      1. Will Tweetspeare‏ @wmpreston 10 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts You do realize the novel is already an indictment of patriarchal structures and assumptions in the West, right?

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      1. Nicole Fanelli‏ @nfanelli 10 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker @tnyshouts Wow- did anyone actually read this? It's a joke! And if you know the book- it's really funny!

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      1. candida lace‏ @CandidaLace 9 Sep 2015
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        @NewYorker wow. Maybe Donald, crazy, trump is right after all!

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