It is, in fact, why it should be required reading.
The fact To Kill a Mockingbird still makes people in Mississippi "uncomfortable" is no reason to ban it #BannedBookshttp://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/10/mississippi_school_district_pu.html …
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That’s what it’s supposed to do.
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You know what makes me “uncomfortable”? Racism.
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White ppl feel discomfort at systemic racism=good. Black ppl feel discomfort at seeing themselves as caricatures for white violence=bad.
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Lit is a mirror. When tkam is only representation of yourself (caricatures not full persons) you see in mirror, it's not good discomfort.
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Misuse of language of offence: appropriating "triggering" & "microagressions" to avoid admitting culpability in racist power relations.
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#tokillamockingbird is SUPPOSED to make the reader uncomfortable!
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Can we ban Mississippi instead?
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Then moral majority will ban Whitman, Melville, Twain, Faulkner.
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