• charlytune
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    1 year ago

    Are you talking about white kids, or black kids though? I think the issue is that black kids unfortunately will hear that language anyway, as the targets of it, and that hearing it read out in the classroom is going to be a very different experience for them.

    • Sens@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      If they also studied a book that contained racist terms for white people, then it would be fair in that context.

      However are there any racial slurs for white people that are as offensive as it is for black people? I don’t honestly think so.

      Societies moving on, time to drop off mice and men from the syllabus and educate as to why it was removed in a different classroom setting.