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Sep (lord of all I survey) ([info]sepiamagpie) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2011-01-01 21:21:00


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Twitter rant: Read bottom to top
To begin with, a sock twitter account for Laura Ingalls Wilder (the writer of the Little House On The Prairie books) was giving out the tweets of her family for New Year's.

Here's the one for her Ma:

HalfPintIngalls Laura Ingalls Wilder:

Ma's resolutions: knit more; be less racist.

Well... anyway, a nineteen tweet rant from another user followed. It's sort of epic.


troposphere
troposphr troposphere
:



@HalfPintIngalls @sippey 'Be less racist'? That's what I call a cheap, defamatory shot. I read those books 100s of times, and

the only racism one can take away is whatever pre-existed in your own racist, bigoted head,

wherein you ascribe to an individual you've never met character traits based on nothing other than their skin color.

'Ma resolves to be less racist.' HAHAHA, that's teh funny.

If you'd actually read the books you would know that a black doctor treated them when they were all sick; that they

had never seen a black person before. You're incapable of reading any text & not injecting your defamatory illogic

whether or not the text in any way supports it. Bcs you were never college-educated, only college-indoctrinated

and taught to label all whites as racist and evil, and that the Indians/'First Nations'/Native Americans never went

around scalping one another, because you were brainwashed into believing any person of color is morally superior

You know who needs to make a new years resolution to be less racist? YOU do.

You don't understand, and therefore mock, people who actually apprehend God (the REAL God, not your crappy morally

relativistic 1, which you actually created in YOUR own image, whether they lived a century or two ago, a millennia

or 2 or 4 ago, or are one of your own contemporaries. In this regard you are hopelessly ignorant and blind; having

no idea of why you are even here in the first place. Blind, misled, and believing only in your psychobabble B.S.

What else have you been "taught"? To smear & denigrate the WASP pioneers/founders who made this country

the greatest nation in the history of mankind -- actually, they were only instruments of GOD, which you do not &

will never comprehend, because you don't know God and in fact have been taught to be actively hostile towards Him.

People like you, who have no comprehension of the what or why of the most basic principles of what this country is

about are simply tools, useful idiots, in the hands of those who seek to destroy America -- the REAL America, not

the bastardized, self-hating, self-loathing, apologetic, Marxist/Fascist false Obamatopia you seek to compel your

fellow citizens into climbing aboard that space-shuttle-disaster-in-the-making piece of crap Marxist state where

you believe there will be no more HAHA-Racist-HAHA Ma's -- only sub-human fascist slave-drones like yourselves.



(please note, the reason that it's formatted like this is because it was a series of nineteen tweets, which can only be 140 characters in length and each time they had to include the name of the people they were addressing)

And what does our dear Laura Ingalls Wilder have to say?

Laura Ingalls Wilder
HalfPintIngalls Laura Ingalls Wilder
:


@troposphr You really ought to have Dr. Tann look at that muskrat bite because you're foaming at the mouth.

And that's that.

I think it's hilarious, in the same way I think watching my cat totally lose it on a paper crane is hilarious, but the topic of racism and racism in the Little House books as potential for discussion is definitely unfunny, so I put it here.


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[info]evilsqueakers
2011-01-05 09:21 am UTC (link)
Ten year olds miming murder? We're meant to be okay with that?

Excuse me. I was the ten-year-old that was reading classics because I had run out of BSC and SVH books by that point. Oh, wait. No. There were problems with those books, too. Jessica's sociopathy, Elizabeth's passiveness on most things, Lila's almost rape, death of most of Jessica's boyfriends, drugs, sex, rock-and-roll. Again, I had read a lot of those by 10. I had also read the Little House books, up to her personal letters, along with whatever was on the classics shelf that looked interesting like Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, and several Jane Austen books.

And quite frankly, I do not appreciate this idea that a child must be coddled, treated as no more than a mindless zombie attached to only parental/societal ideals. I was reading before six. On my own. Heck, I used to recite Psalms to my godmoms before I was 6, without having heard them before, because I had reading skills and I loved books that challenged me. To this day, on an average month, I can read 10 books without pause. I'd say that reading those classics didn't brain damage me and helped me on the ACT in high school so that I was half-asleep and scored 28/36 without trying. I knew those words from my childhood, and had processed them by reading them on my own, without assignment. At 29, it's helped me all my life.

My librarians in elementary school knew I was about four grades above the rest of my classmates and would point out the classics in order to give me something to do when I was done with my assignments early on in the day and needed something to keep myself occupied and out of trouble. Clever children are hell in a classroom when bored. I had a lot of straight faces in kindergarten because I talked alot since I was finished and I'd read all the books in the classroom library.

God save any child that must be saved from reflections of past ideals that are still mostly relevant today. You know, in case the kids, want to shape their own views and understand why a friend might be upset over a word tossed at them without needing a For Dummies Junior book attached. People die every day. Why is it wrong to point that out, not look down on the ickle children, and let them make their own decisions?

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