To hate book censorship

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Yes it's not a nice thing to say and yes it's highly offensive but in the context of the book and most of the time to describe a person.
I have recently discovered this. One hit wonder by lisa jewell. The paperback is one I originally had and managed to.find today and the screenshot is a ebook which iam reading again.

In this context Ana's mum is a horrible and due to her marriage breakdown very anti lgb.

Yeah, it's ridiculous. In real life people are sometimes rude, crass, abusive, racist, etc. All of it should be allowed to be depicted in art/fiction.

It’s the reason I’m now loathe to get rid of my hard copies of books. You’d drive yourself mad thinking you’d imagined the original otherwise!

Publishers are now getting books reviewed by sensitivity readers

This was me today until I managed to fish out my old copy.

And this is why we need to buy physical books.

But why? Are we really becoming this fragile that some words in a book will damage us?
In the context of one hit wonder, the mum is awful, what she calls Ana is something she would say and it shows how awful a mum she is

I am not saying i agree with it - sorry I should have been clearer. Just that this is why it is happening.

It depends, I remember having to read a book in high school that had the N word a lot . It was awful for me. It felt like certain classmates really enjoyed emphasising it when it was their turn to read.

when you aren’t affected it’s easy, but yeah it was horrible.

Was that roll of thunder hear my cry by any chance?

I would assume Of Mice and Men.

It was of mice and men, and there was another one, the name escapes me. It wasn’t fun.

I recently learned that 10 little soldiers by A.C used to be called little N’s. I appreciate the name change and the censorship here.

Correct

Also in To Kill a Mockingbird. So sad

I'm not sure you can approve of censorship in some cases but not others. Who decides? It starts to get messy.

How can you have a book with racism as a central plot without demonstrating the racist behaviour?

You can't.

i can't imagine how hard it was for you to sit through that and I'm sorry your teacher didn't handle it better but are you suggesting they change the N Word to something else less offensive but not culturally right, or nan the book completely?

I don’t know, I can only tell you of my school experience. It was almost gleeful the way some of my classmates would say the N word and being a black person it wasn’t a great feeling for me. I used to dread English literature.

There must be other ways to teach racism is wrong I’m sure. I attended a few schools around the world due to parents jobs and some taught how racism is wrong without racist literature and even when they did the literature was showing it was wrong. Eg we learnt about Nazi germany, everything framed in the learning was how it was wrong and should never happened again, even the movie we watched - not in the striped pyjamas- displayed this with the sad ending. I don’t remember reading a book that was derogatory about Jews just because. I’m sure there must have been books written about them in a derogatory way but as a backdrop etc however we don’t read those, yet we can be taught that what happened was wrong.

No idea, I mean there must be some other ways. I honestly don’t know, sadly enough I think of mice and men is actually a good book. It was just not an enjoyable class read for me.