20 Replies to “Visit The Washington Monument While You Still Can”

  1. Visit Medina while you still can… lol.. “as if” !

    https://www.amazon.ca/Islams-Black-Slaves-Other-Diaspora/dp/0374527970

    https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/slavery.aspx

    “Sahih Bukhari (34:432) – Another account of females taken captive and raped with Muhammad’s approval. In this case it is evident that the Muslims intend on selling the women after raping them because they are concerned about devaluing their price by impregnating them. Muhammad is asked about coitus interruptus.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2818598/Footage-shows-ISIS-fighters-attending-slave-girl-market.html

    “I have to check her teeth’: Chilling footage shows ISIS fighters at slave girl ‘market’ bartering for young women… with green-eyed teens fetching the highest price…”

  2. I started reading the old Horatio Hornblower books again, and I’m sure they will be banned soon because sloppy sailors are referred to as Portugal niggers.

  3. Huh?

    Because I liked the novel and the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, I read both The Iliad and The Odyssey when I was in junior high school. Mind you, those were ponderous English-language translations, so I found them boring in places and, I’m sorry to say, I don’t remember much of them.

    I also started on The Aeneid by Virgil, though, I lost interest and never finished it. Instead, one of my favourite operas is Hector Berlioz’s adaptation Les Troyens.

    I consider those works to be part of my education, even though they were never assigned in school or university. It saddens me that people want to remove such great works from any curriculum. They were tales of adventure, heroism, sacrifice, defeat, and victory which stirred the imagination.

    Let some leftist hack try and top that.

    1. B A I shoved so much useless stuff in my brain, as the song says, it is a wonder I can think at all. The destruction of history and historical literature will pull people back into the dark ages and they really will not like the end result. Ignorance begets ignorance. Technology will not replace personal contact or rational thought no matter how hard people are trying to achieve this. Human beings require close personal contact, always have, always will. The whu who flu is busy proving all the technocrats wrong.

    1. I read him voraciously when I was in Jr. High. I loved his “fantasy” style of sci fi. I guess that’s why I’m a well-adjusted conservative. His themes caused me to THINK about how I viewed the world, and other people.

  6. There are legitimate reasons to change a curriculum. The problem here is that (1) the reasons are mired in identity politics rather than proper educational aims, and (2) the teacher is rejoicing in the removal of a great classic, in effect dancing on its grave.

    Had the teacher simply said “The Odyssey is of immense historical significance, but a difficult and boring read for students, with few literary themes for the teacher to draw on” then there would have been little controversy.

    1. Had the teacher simply said “The Odyssey is of immense historical significance, but a difficult and boring read for students, with few literary themes for the teacher to draw on” then there would have been little controversy.

      Then find a translation or presentation that isn’t so boring. There are lots of them out there, if the educationists could be bothered to look, which, frankly, they’re not.

      Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are among the foundation literary works of western civilization. That’s because we in the west are intellectually Greeks.

      I attended a transfer college during my freshman undergraduate year. Once in a while, speakers would visit the campus and give lectures on a variety of topics. I remember being at one of them. I don’t remember anything of what he said except for the statement that I just made: we westerners are Greeks. Our intellectual tradition is based upon the writings and thinking of the ancients who lived in Athens and Sparta. Our form of government, at least in theory, can be traced back to ancient Greece. Much of the New Testament was written in Greek because, at that time, it was the universal language of that part of the world.

      To discard the aforementioned works is to undermine the necessity of teaching the foundations of our civilization.

      1. Removing The Odyssey from a high school curriculum is not undermining our civilization. It’s importance to the history of literature is undeniable, but you can make a good case that it’s not an optimum text for teaching writing at the high school level. As an example, there are many references in The Odyssey which most students will not fully understand. If teachers decide that To Kill A Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, or Animal Farm are more suitable, being far more accessible to students, then fine.

        My point is that there are sound pedogogical reasons for changing a curriculum. And then there are poor reasons.

        1. there are many references in The Odyssey which most students will not fully understand

          Yeah, someone might have to actually teach something about those things and (horrors!) educate the students!

          As for me, we took some Greek mythology in Grade 8. I ate up that stuff. How dare they teach something which the kiddies might actually find interesting.

          And, yes, I read Animal Farm, 1984, and To Kill A Mockingbird in high school.

          1. “Yeah, someone might have to actually teach something about those things and (horrors!) educate the students!”

            English teachers want to teach literature, not history. There are books of equal literary value that are more enjoyable and comprehensible. Thus removing The Odyssey from a curriculum is perfectly fine, so long as it’s done for the right reasons.

          2. For literature to have meaning, one needs to teach the context in which it was written. Try understanding Shakespeare without knowing what happened during the Renaissance or the events that he was describing in his plays.

          3. I agree. But it’s often impractical for an English high school teacher to provide the needed context. Their primary role, remember, is to teach literature, not history or Greek mythology. Thus it may be better to choose a text which doesn’t require so much preparation to fully comprehend.

            This is especially so for The Odyssey, which requires a substantial amount of back information. In fact, one should really read The Iliad before.

  7. The Left is attacking so many arenas of speech from so many different angles its difficult to keep track.

  8. There’s no way to get to the original story about Homer being “cancelled” without hitting a paywall, which always makes me suspicious. Especially since the PJMedia article is long on hyperventilation and short on actual reporting.

    For those looking for an excellent modern adaptation of Homer’s works, I can’t recommend Jeff Wright’s https://trojanwarpodcast.com/ and https://odysseythepodcast.com/ enough.

  9. This is SICK. This woman does not belong in the USA … even if she were born here. Immigrants have to swear allegiance to the US Constitution… perhaps it’s time to make every 6th grader born in the USA to do the same?

    And make no mistake … this “aberration” will soon become the adopted standard of State Superintendents of Education everywhere. Certainly here in CA … and places like Oregon, Washington, New York State, Mass. etc. And then … social media and BIG Tech will CANCEL any reference or connection to these “white” materials.

    There is already a widening gulf between socio-economic classes in America. This sort of compulsive intentional ignorance will create an even wider gulf between the well-educated, and the empty-headed numbskulls. These FOOLS are damaging (beyond repair) … the poor kids ovvvvvvvculllller they purport to care for.

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