Did you hear about the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award being renamed over negative lines on the indigenous people of America? Laura changed the lines in the 50’s. I find it disturbing that some take modern opinion & obliterate the past. Isn’t progress @ learning from our mistakes?🤔
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Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
We can't erase history. We have to learn from it, learn from our mistakes.
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I’ve heard. It wasn’t about a few negative lines in one book, but about many books. Nobody is saying not to read them.
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I think that everything offends people these days, they tore down some historical statues, they don’t like how people were called back in another time period, next will be book burning, destroying history, and writing a new PC history that won’t offend anyone, just a fairy tale.
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Historical statues of people on the wrong side of history. They're already in history books. We don't need to see them as well. And no one should like how people were called in another time period. Dehumanizing language should not be carried forward
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certainly Denying that mistakes happened probably will lead to a repeat of those mistakes in the future.
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PS check your thread and see some of those who are agreeing with you ...
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Just so you know, some of us who agree with him, not all, but some, understand the language Laura used was acceptable at the time, but is no longer acceptable, and we would not condone it coming out of the mouth of anyone today... but understand that was then, this is now.
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It’s disturbing and ridiculous. Her homeplace is 35 miles from my front door. It’s upsetting that she’s being attacked this way...
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