A student of what? Context is definitely beyond her grasp. When is someone going to tell her that life is hard, you don’t get to remake the world to your own personal utopia and sometimes literature is challenging?
‘A Belfast student has called for Of Mice and Men to be removed from the GCSE English literature course.
The novel, by Nobel-Prize winning author John Steinbeck, was written in 1937 and portrays life in the 1930s.
Angel Mhande raised concerns about racial slurs used in the book, including the N-word.
“I just don’t find Of Mice and Men appropriate for schools and how that impacts young black people, and young white people,” she said.
Because of this, she thinks the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) should replace it on the GCSE English literature course.’
Bet she has no problem with Cop Killer or Kill Whitey
Nominated by Sixdog Vomit.
One of the best texts on the syllabus and not racist C.A.
She is not a student, she is a schoolgirl and a rather immature one one at that.
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Who the fuck are this pair of African bitches and what the fuck are they doing in Belfast? Don’t want to take the exam ……..fuck off home then.
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In the article, she says
” it makes me feel” and ” I think”.
It’s all about her.
Well, love, YOU are entitled to YOUR opinions, same as the rest of civilization, and when you’re the published author of a novel as important as Grapes of Wrath, I might be interested in listening to you.
Until the, bore off!
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Yet another uppity spook just down the tree.
I’ve got n*gger fatigue.
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Nice one Termujin! N*gger fatigue is brilliant!
But we can broaden it to include any subdivision of untermensch in the wokeist coalition:
F*ggot fatigue
Tranny fatigue
or customize it to a specific country…
Dinghy fatigue
Paki fatigue
or to Politics…
Progressive fatigue
Tory fatigue…
The possibilities are endless!
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Unfortunately true General, I find myself liking about 10 people and rest can go in the machine.
I am a grumpy old man though. And a racist. Bit Nazi. Don’t like degenerates.
So, all in all, a right wing extremist.
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Thought I was alone.
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Sorry, I meant Of Mice and Men, but you can include Grapes of Wrath in the same phrase as important, unlike Angels self-centered whinge.
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Maybe lennie can pet her, just a little to hard..
” sorry George I squished the monkey”
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Riiiiight…like any sootıe in history has ever read anything more advanced than ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.
They don’t do more than three syllables, innit blud?
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Caterpillar would present a problem then.
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Rat’s cocks! Good point; now I look like a right bellend.
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I believe a favourite is the pop up book ‘brap brap chiggun!’
On every turn of the pop up book, it’s either a gun in your face with the words ‘Brap! Brap!’ or a smiling dark fellow with a box of KFC saying ‘Me lllooooovesss da chiggun!’
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‘Dis chiggun is bare peng, blud.’
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Put a ‘trigger warning’ on it, in case the delicate sensibilities of snowflakes everywhere are affected.
Alternatively, just burn all copies of the book and pretend that it never existed, then she and her ilk will be happy. Before they turn their attention to the next one on the list…
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I write cheeldrens books, madam. Perhaps you’ve heard of some of them;
Johnny bags a Jap?
Johnny hangs a Hun?
Johnny outwit’s an Eyetie?
-H.Enfield and P. Whitehouse.
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What’s so odd about a Black American student in Ireland? In the American Midwest where I grew up Blacks were often referred to as the Smoked Irish.
Of course they were also referred to as Ghetto Rats so I wonder if she’d object to a modernized version called; “Of Rats and Race”?
By the way…don’t send her back.
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Deport the cunt to Angola.
See how that impacts it’s chiggun lifestyle.
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Who the fuck is she, a soot school girl!
Why is it news, it is just one of many books on the syllabus and there has to be at least one that lets the cunts know there fucking place 😂
Never read it, I assume it is about some blokes catching mice, sounds a bit boring init.
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I read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ at school but I assume that would be on Miss Mhande’s naughty list too.
What’s the betting when she is at home she listens to hip hop or rap music and every other word is n*gger this or n*gger that?
Talk about selective outrage.
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The modern version of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’: Boo Radley has started cross-dressing, has kidnapped poor Scout and is holding her in his Fritzlesque dungeon ready for her to pump out some kids.
Tom Robinson is still guilty of being black.
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Atticus Finch has a sideline in stopping deportation flights of migrant criminals and failed asylum seekers.
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I only read good white books at school for English, not a soot anywhere 😂
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TKAM is inherently racist. Against Whites. And Harper Lee did not write it either, that would be the fat faggots Truman Capote. She did write the sequel though. That’s why it bombed.
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Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as well. of the three on the GCSE syllabus to do with race relations in US that was perhaps my favourite because of Twain’s prose.
Twain seems like it shoukd be read aloud in the voice of Matthew McConaughey.
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I read it to get some tips.
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Tell me about the rabbits George said Lenny,the film adaption,Gary sinise,john malkovich wasn’t bad in all fairness ,long before the woke brigade in any case.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rodent Exterminator…
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More like it’s too difficult to read for the illiterate little cunts we have now.
I know some cunts with 10 or more GCSEs at ‘A star’ who can’t string a fucking coherent sentence together, innit?
And Chris Rock was right about where to hide your money so dark types don’t steal it.
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And for nailing the reality of a topic with a single post this week’s Golden Hammer award goes to…
the envelope please…
Cuntybullocks!
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According to the OECD, the UK is the only developed nation where literacy rates have fallen relative to 50 years ago.
I’ve heard a couple of anecdotes where lecturers at British universities will sometimes ask the writers of the more literate essays they receive which part of Scandinavia they’re from.
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Sorry love, were the mice frightening you into jump on the chair. Best you go back to picking cotton with your dear old mum then.
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Should have shouted “Thomas!”
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Underrated comment 😂
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Surprised they can read let alone criticise one of the greats of 20th century literature.
Surely they should be more concerned about the lack of transbender characters than historical truths, typical bigots women have penises too you know, should have been taught that at play school.
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I’ve read Mice and Men,
Grapes of wrath.
And I’m not a bookworm speccy type.
Even few others!
(Tortilla flat, Red pony, cannery row)
She focused on word and not the story?
Maybe she’s not cut out for education?
Maybe she’s the type who shouldnt be allowed scissors?
John Steinbeck was one of the greatest American writers ever (Nobel prize winning!)
I also like Jack London,
Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Charles Bukowski, and Hunter Thompson*
* But only when he gets the shit kicked out of him in Hell’s Angels😆😆
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You a frustrated beatnik Miserable?
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A bit LL.
Like Ned Flanders dad!
https://youtu.be/lkKwyjsJGxk
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I read fear and loathing every couple of years. It always has me in fits of laughter.
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They don’t make TV like this anymore MNC.
https://youtu.be/ccyu44rsaZo
People with the first name Hunter are odd cunts.
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Dunno if you read the book sixdog, but Hunter sought them out, acted the tough guy, got battered and ran straight to the cops?!!
( Who didn’t care 🙂)
He was always posing with magnums , shotguns and stuff..
Total fraud.
The Hell’s Angels sussed him out pretty quick.
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Hunter s thompson ,to live and die in Las Vegas,yeah I rather thought you would mis
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I am affected by the arsegrapes of wrath.
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I know one mad cunt who listens to audiobooks on double speed.
What a mong. Imagine Alvin and the Chipmunks reading a book about the Holocaust to you?
Audiobooks are for people who can’t read or blind cunts. Braille seems a pain in the arse so I can understand them using audiobooks.
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They’re ok when you are working a production job on a conveyor belt, mind numbingly boring, helps pass the time. Driving too.
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There was a bloody good filum called The Reader. It had Kate Winslet as the one being read to (to start with). She looked great as a tram conductress, and even better at home in the bath. She gets better with age, and she was gorgeous to start with!
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Or long car journeys or doing up your house or any other dituation where a book might be practical?
‘for people who can’t read’
SMH.
Dunning-Kruger strikes again.
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*situation.
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One schoolgirl in Northern Ireland says a book should be removed from the GCSE syllabus because one word in it offends her. Why on earth does this warrant a news story? What will the BBC think of next, hanging on every word uttered by a know-nothing, autistic, teenage Swedish truant who thinks she’s a climate expert?
The BBC are the cunts, not this silly girl.
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It’s her 15 minutes of fame.
That’s all you’re getting, though.
You not edgy enough to be a model, nor educated enough to be a journalist.
And there’s more than enough POC being presenters on TV these days, fighting for jobs.
You peaked to early, dear.
Now go and sit your GCSEs and see how many people want to employ you, without a pass in English.
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Both are cunts. Both shoukd know better.
The sad thing is the journos at the BBC are so stupid they might agree with her.
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‘What is it teaching us?’
That honest Abe should of after freeing the ungrateful cunts gave each one of them 5 bucks and shipped them all back to Africa..
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I was Angel mards teacher I’d give her a D-
She’s as thick as Lenny in Of Mice and men
Give her a rabbit to crush and a kick up the arse.
Steinbeck had threats to his life for writing Grapes of wrath.
He captured the true story behind 30s depression era America and if Angel was a bit smarter she could win over the teacher by mentioning the environmental disaster of the Oklahoma dustbowl through over farming,
Draw parallels between the okies searching for work in the promise land of California and modern migrants,
And the very real oppression they faced.
The dumb ni**er.
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Wood chipper the sooty
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Capital idea. Feet first, Then take a Ciggie break and turn off the machine when she’s in to her knees
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Yep 👍
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Joad of shite!
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Well done.
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Fuck. Right. Off
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I should imagine, if she read To Kill a Mockingbird, she’d probably complain about the fact that there wasn’t a POC lawyer, rather than Atticus.
The fact that a white lawyer saw injustice, and despite opposition and threats to his family and self, carried on would have swooshed right over her oiled hair and empty head.
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She’d insist on a new character:
Giga-Boo Radley.
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Racist fuckwits like this Ooga won’t be happy until al the classics have been replaced with shitty, modern texts about useless oeople talking about their gender/ sexualoty/ skin colour. In ten years, they’ll be studying badly-written crap like Mahjob’s Dad Goes To Prison, Grizelda Has Her Face Pierced, or Ten-Year-Old Shakeeba’s Wedding Day.
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Those that control the past control the future. As soon as we become detached from our history we are putty.
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Too late. Millennials and quite a few gen X are hopelessly ignorant on history. One of my own lecturers didnt know there were people in the Caribbean before the black slaves and Spanish colonists.
That was in 2001.
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The n-word causes all sorts of problems, except when a certain racial group include it in song lyrics.
Then it’s ok….
Funny old world, innit …💀
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”song” lyrics.
If those are songs, then i’m Lionel Messi.
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Shuddup, Angle.
Books are wasted on you anyway, let alone the idea of context.
Here’s a stick, see if you can use it to get some rermites of that mound.
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*Termites
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Another chippy, ill educated, whining, blue gummed orc… but take heart there is an antidote, just found pretty much the whole Johnny Rebel back catalogue available for your solace, amusement and download on “Internet Archive”
(could post a link but it probably wouldn’t pass filtration)
chiggun…
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