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bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I wouldn'tt generally watch movies in that genre. Now that we have the projector we watch almost everything.

They'll make 500 movies about Harvey Weinstein if they make money off of them.

I remember all those years ago why I didn't like Brokeback Mountain. Not because there were gay cowboys, no it was because everyone told me beforehand.

I mention that because I don't care about movie's preaching or not. Just want them to be good.
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You failed, you’re supposed to get on your knees and beg for mercy from dviss followed by saying sorry for being white.

Piece of shit
 
This subject highlights another symptom of how the lefts agenda does nothing but divide. The very books that were required reading, that promoted thought, that inspired the imaginations of generations, are being banned.

To think that classics from Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Dreiser, Orwell, Faulkner, Jack London, Vonnegut, Salinger, Bradbury, Hemingway, Baldwin, Margret Mitchel, Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, as well as some contemporary writers like King, S.E. Hinton, Tolkien, Rollings, Harper Lee, Grisham, and on and on...

All these guy and many more have had and are having their books removed from schools and public libraries.

Top reasons are "According to the OIF, the top three reasons for challenging such materials were that they contained "sexually explicit" content, "offensive" language, or were "unsuited to any age group".

But hey, Rap music can say anything..."Artists" can say or do anything ...Mags can teach young teens that alternative sexual concepts are perfectly cool, teens can get abortions on demand without parental control, and on and on and on...


Dont dare challenge what is socially super hip and groovy..dont make people learn to think......just fill their little noggins with platitudes while leading them to their mindless bumper sticker logic circle so they can protest books....

Laughable.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I don't know what is behind this but I do know that most movies about uncomfortable parts of our history have an awesome white guy who was ahead of his time and fought for civil rights for black guys. Or a sweet white loving teacher to teach the kids in the ghetto.

Makes white people feel better.

I really need to watch Roots again. Been decades.
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You know, I know better than to read a post out of order. Takes it out of context.

I read this like, six or seven times, looking for the green font.

Can I yell mean things to you while you watch Roots, as to make your experience less enjoyable? You know, you deserve no pleasure....

To equate movies with history...I just cant even go there. I cant "feel" good or bad about the Irish Potato Famine, I cant take blame for Thousands of years of slavery on this planet. I cant "Feel" guilt for the extermination of indigenous cultures that have come and gone from the dawn of man.

You want to take that on, its all yours brother. I have enough to deal with in the here and now.
 
DaLincolnJones said:
You know, I know better than to read a post out of order. Takes it out of context.

I read this like, six or seven times, looking for the green font.

Can I yell mean things to you while you watch Roots, as to make your experience less enjoyable? You know, you deserve no pleasure....

To equate movies with history...I just cant even go there. I cant "feel" good or bad about the Irish Potato Famine, I cant take blame for Thousands of years of slavery on this planet. I cant "Feel" guilt for the extermination of indigenous cultures that have come and gone from the dawn of man.

You want to take that on, its all yours brother. I have enough to deal with in the here and now.
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I'm not taking anything on. I feel things. I felt terrible when Wil Smith killed his dog in I am Legend.


I don't feel happy when they throw a gratuitous white savior in a movie. I know what they're doing, pandering to the audience.

I saw a movie recently where there was literally no reason to make the girl go topless in it. I can't remember what movie it was but when I (ME!!!) think it is unnecessary it probably is.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I'm not taking anything on. I feel things. I felt terrible when Wil Smith killed his dog in I am Legend.


I don't feel happy when they throw a gratuitous white savior in a movie. I know what they're doing, pandering to the audience.

I saw a movie recently where there was literally no reason to make the girl go topless in it. I can't remember what movie it was but when I (ME!!!) think it is unnecessary it probably is.
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well shit I wouldn't argue with that choice. Making girls go topless for no reason, LETS GO!!
 
dviss1 said:
Tell her you should get to look at the menu as long as you always order the special (her).
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Then suggest that maybe sometime you and she should share the fish tacos.

barfo
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I saw a movie recently where there was literally no reason to make the girl go topless in it. I can't remember what movie it was but when I (ME!!!) think it is unnecessary it probably is.
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Airplane?

There's "uncomfortable" and there's "UNCOMFORTABLE". It's sad to me that this decision was made because they believe that TKAM fits in the second category. I just wonder what other book they think can replace its message.
 
crandc said:
When I was 13 my father gave me The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich to read.

It is very explicit.

Some things are lost in the fog of memory over the years, but I remember the basics. And one quote I can still recall verbatim, from a man who survived the death camps.



I guess you could say that book made me uncomfortable.
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Damn. That is crazy.
 
Storyteller2 said:
Airplane?

There's "uncomfortable" and there's "UNCOMFORTABLE". It's sad to me that this decision was made because they believe that TKAM fits in the second category. I just wonder what other book they think can replace its message.
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After seeing Deliverance, my guess would be Charlotte's Web. It's best to start pro pig culture when they're young.

@BrianFromWA triggered in ...3 ...2 ...1
 
Just watched the whole gay nazi video at the gym. Wonder if anyone behind me was uncomfortable seeing the Swastika flags on my phone.

I almost stopped the video.
 
It is a required reading list. Times change. If parents think it is still essential, it is still in the school library.
 
I never finished the book. Who killed the mockingbird?

(I did read it).
 
crandc said:
What? The quote, the book, my father giving it to me at 13, or what the man described?
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All four of your subjects . The most fascinating thing is when your father gave you the Book.
 
Good! Leave it be. The book isn't that good anyway, I got tired of reading it maybe 2/3 the way through.
Gregory Peck made the movie way more interesting than the book ever was.

Never could get through Hemingway books either. Most of them, just too damn depressing.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I'm not taking anything on. I feel things. I felt terrible when Wil Smith killed his dog in I am Legend.


I don't feel happy when they throw a gratuitous white savior in a movie. I know what they're doing, pandering to the audience.

I saw a movie recently where there was literally no reason to make the girl go topless in it. I can't remember what movie it was but when I (ME!!!) think it is unnecessary it probably is.
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Probably Halle Berry in Swordfish. That one jumped out at me as supremely gratuitous. Like "Here ya go!"
 
SlyPokerDog said:
By The Associated Press

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is being removed from a junior-high reading list in a Mississippi school district.

The Sun Herald reports that Biloxi administrators pulled the novel from the 8th-grade curriculum this week. School board vice president Kenny Holloway says the district received complaints that some of the book's language "makes people uncomfortable."

Published in 1960, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee deals with racial inequality in a small Alabama town.

A message on the school's website says "To Kill A Mockingbird" teaches students that compassion and empathy don't depend upon race or education. Holloway says other books can teach the same lessons.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/10/mississippi_school_district_pu.html
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Mother Fucker! I KNEW this was gonna happen. In today's climate where EVERYTHING and something offends somebody it was just a matter of time.
 
DaLincolnJones said:
This subject highlights another symptom of how the lefts agenda does nothing but divide. The very books that were required reading, that promoted thought, that inspired the imaginations of generations, are being banned.

To think that classics from Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Dreiser, Orwell, Faulkner, Jack London, Vonnegut, Salinger, Bradbury, Hemingway, Baldwin, Margret Mitchel, Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, as well as some contemporary writers like King, S.E. Hinton, Tolkien, Rollings, Harper Lee, Grisham, and on and on...

All these guy and many more have had and are having their books removed from schools and public libraries.

Top reasons are "According to the OIF, the top three reasons for challenging such materials were that they contained "sexually explicit" content, "offensive" language, or were "unsuited to any age group".

But hey, Rap music can say anything..."Artists" can say or do anything ...Mags can teach young teens that alternative sexual concepts are perfectly cool, teens can get abortions on demand without parental control, and on and on and on...


Dont dare challenge what is socially super hip and groovy..dont make people learn to think......just fill their little noggins with platitudes while leading them to their mindless bumper sticker logic circle so they can protest books....

Laughable.
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We are literally 'Fahrenheit 451' now.
 
stampedehero said:
All four of your subjects . The most fascinating thing is when your father gave you the Book.
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My parents definitely did not think I should be sheltered from uncomfortable subjects. I was even younger when I read The Children of Vietnam. Mostly pictures. Pictures of what napalm and cluster bombs due to small human bodies. It was uncomfortable. To put it mildly.
 
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