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What NPR Actually Said - KillerAngel

Posted: Jun 7th, 2020 - 12:21 pm In Reply to: NPR Advises Readers to ’Decolonize” Their Bookshelves by - Removing White Authors

I don't see any calls for book burning here. He is suggesting, like my bosses at the library do, that you try reading something outside your usual genre. If - and that may be a big if - you want to know something about the life of a person who doesn't look like you, try reading some books by authors who look like they do rather than books by authors who look like you that claim to understand and explain those lives. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

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NPR Advises Readers to ’Decolonize” Their Bookshelves by - Removing White Authors (Views: 709, 2020-06-07, 5:00 am)
- Looking more and more like Mao’s Cultural Revolution. - nm (Views: 374, 2020-06-07, 5:05 am)
  - Gonna be a pretty empty bookshelf .Book-burning is coming. - You can smell the flames off in the (Views: 330, 2020-06-07, 1:44 pm)
  - It's always the fascists who try to control what people - can read. Ray Bradbury warned us (Views: 292, 2020-06-08, 6:18 am)
  - When Churchill saved Britain from Germany invasion, - in 1945 British voters were lured by (Views: 311, 2020-06-08, 10:29 am)
- The part "removing white authors" was - Breitbart, not NPR, so their opinion. (Views: 417, 2020-06-07, 9:13 am)
  - And what does that mean to you - Einstein (Views: 382, 2020-06-07, 9:28 am)
    - It means that many people read that and believe - NPR is telling them to (Views: 394, 2020-06-07, 9:40 am)
      - NPR told them to - do exactly that (Views: 361, 2020-06-07, 11:44 am)
- I gave a dislike for the "notion" but I thank you for posting. - sm (Views: 446, 2020-06-07, 9:44 am)
  - NYT removed McSally's book from Bestseller List. - More liberal suppression. (Views: 344, 2020-06-07, 9:56 am)
  - I gave no "check mark," just a comment. - First of all, as explained by (Views: 368, 2020-06-07, 9:59 am)
    - "A lot of 'public' broadcast stations are - ...there because not everybody has (Views: 374, 2020-06-07, 11:57 am)
- What NPR Actually Said - KillerAngel
  - I know what they - "actually said" (Views: 351, 2020-06-07, 5:07 pm)
- They also lie about Winston Churchill being a racist. - Most of these accounts are second hand (Views: 342, 2020-06-07, 2:01 pm)
- The tell lies about Israel and Palestine. Israel's Knesset - (their Congress) has ELECTED (Views: 301, 2020-06-07, 2:05 pm)
- Let the book burning begin. - These people are showing each day their lunacy (Views: 387, 2020-06-07, 3:44 pm)