If you’re interested in learning more, Dana Schwartz has published a book of her own called, “The White Man’s Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon,” and maybe in there she explains in a little more detail why white male authors should be pulled from high school curriculums for the next two decades. Well, we already know the reason: the patriarchy.
We need to kill the Western Canon. https://t.co/aLTTvpkNI7
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) November 1, 2019
The literary canon as it exists is racist and patriarchal. And it keeps reinforcing itself. https://t.co/aLTTvp3cjx pic.twitter.com/oNgmhxSlH9
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) November 1, 2019
So, yeah. High school students should stop reading Ernest Hemingway for, oh let's say 15 years. Then we can reevaluate.
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) November 1, 2019
You know what, screw it: no novels by white men in high schools for the next 20 years.
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) November 1, 2019
And then there’s a “please buy my book” tweet that we left out.https://twitter.com/velvethammer/status/1190446249968898049
Do they even teach novels in high schools now? It’s been a while.
Request denied
— John Cereghin (@Pilgrimway) November 2, 2019
Um, no.
— Goldens Rule (@jamesbranch3) November 2, 2019
No. Our history and heritage are precious.
— Ava (@AvaSkovdottir) November 2, 2019
No.
Hell no.
— Salamandyr (@Salamandyr) November 2, 2019
They really give the blue check mark out to anyone.
— Mitch Follette (@follette_md) November 2, 2019
I am pretty certain the one book we should not read is yours.
— Dr. #Irony (@JohnThomT) November 2, 2019
*Plants the flag*
The Classics are a mountain I am willing to die on. Do your worst. Conservatives like me will hold the line. pic.twitter.com/KoXM8lwPjM
— H.R. Blackburne ? (@HRBlackburne) November 1, 2019
Great effort to pretend Jane Austen is not part of the canon.
— Affeninsel (@Affeninsel) November 2, 2019
Meritocracy is such a drag, isn't it?
— 4 Freedoms & Golden Rule (@Matelot1325) November 2, 2019
Fascist, much? pic.twitter.com/kbsYVjuhDP
— ƬЄƛƓƛƝ ƦЄƖԼԼƳ ? (@velvethammer) November 2, 2019
You can organize a book burning but we will always whisper them to each other, share them in the dark and let amazing art be the trees whose shade our children will use to write their own books that need to be burned.
— Antonio (@JurlinaAntonio) November 1, 2019
— NamasdaVe (@Twit_er808) November 2, 2019
Ignorance is bliss, determinedly so it seems.
No, I will not buy your book.
— AJ (@AndrewJayabc) November 2, 2019
Or just expand it. You can't suddenly declare great books not great just because you don't like the author's gender or color.
— Leonard Smalls (@apocalypsebiker) November 2, 2019
Leftists: Always subtracting, never adding.
— LassThoughts (@HogarthistanRep) November 1, 2019
Why not just add to it?
— Randy McGregor (@Ramcgreg) November 2, 2019
The moaners aren't good enough to be chosen on merit, so want the standards to be lowered enough to let them in.
— injaeneous (@injaeneous) November 2, 2019
And replace it with what?
Average books like The Color Purple and The Handmaid's Tale?
No, thanks
There's no reason to replace high art with dross because of intersectionality.
— Male Human Person (@MaleHumanPerso1) November 2, 2019
Excellent example of Woke racism.
— James Hoyt-McDaniels (@dtlajim1) November 2, 2019
Sexist and racist. What a lovely combo.
— A.L. ? (@ayolord) November 2, 2019
"These books should be read not because of what's written in them, but because their authors are members of racial and sexual demographics who I sociopolitically favor."
— Chaz Bot Lee (@ChazBotLee) November 2, 2019
You have something against a particular gender and ethnicity. There are no white men in the Chinese canon. By your logic, that’s problematic. 100% of the Indian canon is Indian. No white people writing Nigerian literature these days. So many problems. #racism #sexism
— ? Bitcoin Gent! ? (@BitcoinGent) November 2, 2019
Or here's a thought. Women should just write more and write things people want to read. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein practically on a dare and it's become one of the most famous works of all time. It spoke to what it means to be human and is timeless.
— ?Skreechy? (@Skreeechy) November 1, 2019
And JK Rowling wrote one of the most popular book series in the world. It's all about being a good writer and writing for an audience that wants to read. Not about what the writer is (male/female, black/white), but what they want to convey and how people can relate to it.
— ?Skreechy? (@Skreeechy) November 1, 2019
I'm sorry this is happening to you.
— Miles Waltrich (@MilesWaltrich) November 2, 2019
Absolutely. Also, no using any inventions or innovations made by white men. Antibiotics, air conditioning, cars, planes, anesthesia, birth control, computers, the internet, phones, factory machinery, timepieces, the postal service, the police, the Constitution, moving pictures… https://t.co/6DZ7pZHS5E
— Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) November 2, 2019
this is the worst take on twitter today
— Sir Justus Daniel Eapen Jr. ✝️?⚗️ (@justuseapen) November 1, 2019
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