Stop teaching novels by white men in high schools for the next 20 years (salaries, Sanders)

[pete98146]

Why? At what point can we all agree that this hatred has gone too far? What good can come from dividing this nation? I'm sorry but this is just silly talk.

[Jo48]

Are you aware that centuries ago many of the classic novels were written by females under male pen names?

[yspobo]

Originally Posted by Jo48

Are you aware that centuries ago many of the classic novels were written by females under male pen names?

Yes, I have heard that before. I don't recall which ones they were though.

[yspobo]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

That won the national championships for what??????

It sounded more like a poetry slam.

I don't know what it sounded like. It was its own form of whatever it was.

[Open-D]

Originally Posted by eddie gein

I love it when one right wing extremist doesn't recognize the posts of one of their fellow right wing extremists. It happens all the time.

My point remains valid even if it was directed at the poster and not the issue, per se. Sorry you can't see that.

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by yspobo

Yes, I have heard that before. I don't recall which ones they were though.

George Eliot, George Sand, Acton Bell (Anne Bronte). All the Bronte sisters used a male "Bell" pseudonym; Acton is the only one I've heard of before.

And then there are women who use initials - P.L. Travers, J.K. Rowling (who also has used male pseudonyms), E.L. James. Louisa May Alcott used a pseudonym early in her career. Nora Roberts writes some of her novels as J.D. Robb.

[yspobo]

Originally Posted by Ohiogirl81

George Eliot, George Sand, Acton Bell (Anne Bronte). All the Bronte sisters used a male "Bell" pseudonym; Acton is the only one I've heard of before.

And then there are women who use initials - P.L. Travers, J.K. Rowling (who also has used male pseudonyms), E.L. James. Louisa May Alcott used a pseudonym early in her career. Nora Roberts writes some of her novels as J.D. Robb.

I have heard of George Eliot, but I'll have to look it up. I don't recall what was written. I haven't done that stuff since I was a kid.

J.K. Rowling has written some books under another name which flopped, but she never would say what the name was. I don't think she'll ever be able to top the Harry Potter series. I never got into Nora Roberts. I'm really picky about what I read. Books usually don't hold my attention long enough for me to finish them. Harry Potter was the first big book to hold my attention. I tried reading one of her non-HP books and it just didn't seem very good.

[doc1]

Originally Posted by The Dark Enlightenment

Great video. I've wondered for years how something like this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8

.

What language were the debaters speaking?

[doc1]

Originally Posted by MacInTx

Throw in Chaucer, Milton, John Donne, Shakespeare, Keats, ee cummings, Robert Frost...

Socrates, Plato.

[Wapasha]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

Why would someone’s race dictate what books should be read

It's just more insight into the agenda being pushed by one particular political party, which dearly seeks to reform the United States of America. By trying to reform the US, they first thing they need to try and do, is erase the past. Getting rid of the literature of the great minds of the past is one small step.

When future generations are ignorant of the past, they will see no reason to defend the individual rights and freedoms of the present. When someone pushes socialism or communism, and you have no reference to the failures of socialism in the past, or of the principles which guided the creation of the US Constitution, then Utopian socialism and all it's lies of fairness and equality, are absorbed like a sponge.