On 8/18/06, Ellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Playing devil's advocate (as usual), I don't know if racist
> children's literature is as evil as you are describing. This was the
> problem with banning Huckleberry Finn from libraries. Set in the
> late 20th/21st century, it is offensive.
Nonsense. It is not in the least offensive, any more than Randy
Newman's Rednecks is offensive. The fact that the author is
describing offensive behavior does not mean that he agrees with it.
Clearly, he does not.
Kipling, on the other hand, really did believe that the white race was
superior to the people they colonized. There is an additional
question as to whether the work of a bona fide racist is worth taking
the effort of getting past the attitudes of the author, but let's be
clear about what those attitudes were first of all.
Stephanie (back to humor momentarily. Really)
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