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thucythucy

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15. Somehow I doubt that rape is a concept totally unknown

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #13)

Fri May 15, 2026, 10:51 PM

5 hrs ago

to kids in that community, not the ones old and mature enough to get throigh the first 83 chapters of that book.

Sad, infuriating, disgusting.

Those parents are less about protecting kids than they are about nursing their own hurt fee fees about the history they'd like to erase.

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This is crazy racist: [View all] applegrove 7 hrs ago OP

Nathan Bedford Forrest's memoir will remain on school library shelves, though. sop 7 hrs ago #1

Sounds like a real beauty. applegrove 7 hrs ago #2

In some of those counties they'll re erect the statues taken down fujiyamasan 3 hrs ago #27

what is? there is nothing there. niyad 7 hrs ago #3

Knox County in Tennessee is removing Alex Hailey's books like Roots from school libraries. applegrove 6 hrs ago #5

Oops. I was typing a response to niyad and didn't see that you had already done LoisB 6 hrs ago #7

The more the merrier!!! applegrove 6 hrs ago #9

Ah, the image is there now. It did not show up for me earlier. niyad 6 hrs ago #8

It is a picture of Alex Haley and a picture of his book "Roots' with the notation that LoisB 6 hrs ago #6

What will they think of next? Here. usonian 6 hrs ago #4

Yup.ghads electric_blue68 3 hrs ago #23

I know where I will not go on vacation RainCaster 6 hrs ago #10

Despicable Joinfortmill 6 hrs ago #11

Trying desperately to revise history. It won't work. surfered 6 hrs ago #12

The book was banned because chapter 84 describes a slave being raped by her owner. highplainsdem 6 hrs ago #13

Somehow I doubt that rape is a concept totally unknown thucythucy 5 hrs ago #15

The same people who drool over the OT sex scenes are outraged, I tells ya, outraged that Haley would RVN VET71 5 hrs ago #16

I should buy "Roots" jfz9580m 5 hrs ago #14

Roots is excellent Unwind Your Mind 5 hrs ago #18

Luke 4:24 NewLarry 5 hrs ago #17

That will make people want to read the book even more GenThePerservering 5 hrs ago #19

Heh!' You migh be right! electric_blue68 3 hrs ago #24

They're already taking black peoples voting rights away ChicagoTeamster 5 hrs ago #20

Unfortunately the KKK has never totally gone away electric_blue68 3 hrs ago #25

Are these shitbags removing the bible too? Because there's plenty of incest and rape in that thing. Dave Bowman 4 hrs ago #21

Not to mention murder galore. nt eppur_se_muova 4 hrs ago #22

Ugh. Donny and his racist Foghorn! And "permission slips" electric_blue68 3 hrs ago #26

Lee Atwater gave away the GOP's strategy a long time ago fujiyamasan 3 hrs ago #28