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As the National Book Awards came to a close on Wednesday, finalists for the prestigious literary prizes took the stage in New York to speak about the Israel-Hamas war, with others at the ceremony also choosing to address banned books.
lol at not even a sly reference to his most famous role. it was amazing to watch LeVar Burton go from kid’s show reading advocate to sci-fi hero. dude’s a national treasure.
He inspired a generation to wear their mom’s hairband over their eyes
Who does CNN think their target demographic is with that headline? If you’re reading CNN, you remember Reading Rainbow, and if you remember Reading Rainbow, YOU PUT SOME RESPEK ON LEVAR BURTON’S GATDAMN NAME.
Don’t mess with Kunta Kinte!!!
Could you imagine bouncing a check to that guy!
People who don’t read books want them banned!
Pages 11-12
Boy, does it feel like we’ve failed our childhood heroes.
We really have.
Mr Rogers would also be disappointed.
Anyone else feel like the country would be better off if more adults read books too? Only half joking…
I think it would depend on the books.
Yeah, for all i know the only approved book in a conservative adult book program would be mein kampf
Or the Bell Curve.
Fabio taught me a lot about living life to the fullest!
Fabio the taught me to watch out for birds.
That’s why people need to read a LOT of books. The only thing worse than someone who doesn’t read at all is the person that reads like one book a year and let’s it define their whole personality.
It is known.
I think it would depend on the books.
Isn’t that the whole argument for banning some books and not others?
All I’m saying is I don’t think we’d be better off if more people started reading books like the Turner diaries. I’m not making a censorship argument here
Aye, didn’t want to accuse you of advocating for censorship. Just a friendly reminder that even the most “dangerous” texts are that way because of context, not content.
Also I was today years old when I learned about The Turner Diaries. Yikes.
There’s a book called the collector that had inspired a couple serial rapist/killers. I consider myself a curious person and I truly love learning but there are some books that I would love to see only in libraries and very dusty because I don’t know how they add constructively to society.
Who else has a copy of “Mein Kampf” or “My New Order: A Collection of Speeches” on their nightstand.
Right guys?
Like, I get the joke, but yeah, uniroically people should read those and just about everything else they can. That’s what being well rounded is, taking in all of the information you can, from all sides, interpreting it, and determining how it fits, or doesn’t, with all of the other knowledge you’ve learned.
That’s fair.
I read manga, does that count? lol
Double yes. more people need to believe in the power of friendship and of falling face down into breasts
Oppai ga daisuki desu 😀
edit: damn, tough crowd, guess my joke didn’t land lol
I’m gonna hope you mean stuff like Ghost in the Shell and 20th Century Boys and not … the other kind of manga.
I mean, there’s like dozens of types of mangas (or comics, for that matter), reducing them to two camps isn’t that efficient.
I like wholesome manga, Nagatoro is good.
How sad that it’s come to this. On the other hand, maybe if Mr. Rogers was still around, we’d have someone to talk to Republicans about kindness.
Republicans have tried demonizing him as woke trying to indoctrinate our children. So unfortunately unlikely.
Demonizing probably the nicest man in history is a good indicator that you’re the villain.
The irony is, he is woke. Dude was literally Kunta Kinte.
Fred Rogers is the guy this particular thread of the post is referring to. He would have made an interesting casting choice for Kunta Kinte.
Though it could be argued Mr. Rogers was woke. That would, however, make it hard to argue woke is a bad thing.
that’s because “wokeism” has become a right wing dogwhistle for basically ‘anything that forces us to confront our shitty and outdated ideas’.
They did the same thing with “social justice” before that and “political correctness” before that. Words don’t mean the same thing to conservatives.
Whether woke is good or bad depends entirely on how it’s defined. I generally see it as an antithesis to ignorance. So a combination of both educated and rational thinking.
Sometimes it describes things that are educated and irrational thinking, which is ironically what the right does a lot. Basically fear mongering.
Then you just use the two interchangeably to make it sound like rational observations are radical.
Well, your first definition is the original one. The second one is the disingenuous one conservatives use. They did the same thing with “social justice” and “political correctness”. Conservatives never come up with anything or good, they just ruin shit.
Oh I know. But even then they’re intentionally inconsistent so the good and bad gets mixed in together.
They would call him too woke.
Fox News called him evil, so… at least he’s not woke.
Moms of Liberty: Reading “Rainbow”, omg we HAVE to ban that from schools as it has a gay agenda!
Qwack jobs like those need to read the Constitution more instead of reinterpreting their Bible to fit their own agenda.
Shout out to LeVar, a true National Treasure.
If only adults realised the value of actually reading books instead of merely gouging on TV and Internet talking points.
Oh man
I couldve sworn Levar Burton had died recently.
It was Lance Reddick i was thinking of
Don’t you even think about puttin no hoodoo on my man burton.
Don’t worry, it’s a reference/joke.
Bird up
WARP SPEED DONT RAINBOW READ ME
Now he has another reason to wish he was Lavar Burton
The chain you want to have happen aint gonna happen bro.
Set phasers to love me
Set phasers to stunning!
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He was a childhood hero my mine as well. I wanted to be on reading rainbow so bad as a kid.
Reading Rainbow 2034: Please Stop Burning Books
Love RATM
He also promoted violence against women, but OK.
Oh, you mean the people who quoted Hitler? - https://apnews.com/article/moms-for-liberty-adolf-hitler-newsletter-quote-bcce698e901b9e782970030ccd710512
Yeah, they’re real model citizens.
The fun part about looking at Breitbart’s headlines is you can tell what the free thinkers are thinking about that day.
