Jane Austen, proud American patriot.
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Honest question: Did Jane Austen ever even get the opportunity to visit America? I mean, it was barely even a country when she was alive.
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I hate how these stories just take it for granted that young people have no agency to just make up their own minds about things. Meanwhile, the mom:
Her whole life, she had retained their [her Republican, Reagan loving parents] views without question.
and later…
She wasn’t some brainwashed idiot, repeating Republican rhetoric like a robot, she said.
Who’s the indoctrinated one again?
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No she did not. She died young, in her 30s. She never married and was dependent on her male relatives for financial support. Traveling to Bath was about as far as she went from home.
I guess the committee really likes the idea of being proud of one’s prejudices. They certainly never read the book.
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But she is said to have an unusual connection with America’s pastime
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Probably not! Or if they did, it was a long time ago, and they don’t remember much about it…
But this strikes me as them trying to reinforce the idea of western literature as the only proper literature for American students to read. They just looked at a list of literature used in school work, and included her because she’s British, and therefor is suitable for lessons about the supposed superiority of western civilization…
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Or just because the word pride is in the title and they know there is no gay sex.
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Good on them for pointing it out.
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“The cruelty is the point”: education edition
Not my town, but not far away. This mentality is so entrenched in Alabama: the willingness (eagerness?) to destroy projects, programs, and people who are making things better for everyone specifically because they made things better for “those people.”
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Utah implementing a statewide book ban is not particularly shocking. It’s upsetting, though.
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