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| Subject: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:20 pm | |
| PALM COAST, Fla. -- A Flagler County school committee has canceled a high school production of "To Kill a Mockingbird" because of offensive language in the play.
The theater director at Flagler Palm Coast High School, Ed Koczergo, said the problem is the N-word. Koczergo said the word can't be removed from the script because of copyright laws.
Principal Jacob Oliva said parents, students and community members began complaining about it during the third week of rehearsals. The production was scheduled to open Nov. 12.
Most Flagler County ninth-graders read the novel dealing with racism in a fictional Depression-era Alabama town as part of their course work. Oliva said the guidance teachers give in
the classroom about controversial material isn't available to community members coming to the play.
Source: http://www.news4jax.com/news/25643345/detail.htmlOne of the greatest American works about the immorality of racism, banned because of a racist word. | |
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Shale ...is a Chamber Royal.
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:35 pm | |
| I HATE N-WORD!
No really there are other ways to obfuscate "nigger" than some code word that everyone knows the meaning of but sounds so infantile, like some little kid saying "number 1" or "number 2." Actually it gives more credence to the word it is trying to avoid by elevating it to "the word that dare not speak its name."
N....r or even n..... would serve the same censorship function as well. (Besides, one of my nudist magazines once ran a feature "N-Word Spoken Here." So, the codeword is also ambiguous.)
As for taking the word out of legitimate usage in period writing - that is just wrong. For one thing how are you going to convey the depths of racial hatred of the time if you don't use the vernacular of that period and place.
Gosh Darn - you don't know how angry that makes me. Fuck! | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:40 pm | |
| *sighs xD Gotta love irony. | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:30 pm | |
| Bunch of politically correct morons. 'Oooh it has a bad word in it so we have to get rid of it', so can we take it that all of these staff members and parents and students only watch G rated Disney movies all day and only read stories like Hansel and Gretel and only listen to music like the bubblegum groups from 50 years ago to make sure they don't encounter any offensive material anywhere else in their lives? | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:25 pm | |
| ^^^^Political correctness, makes you really wonder doesn't it? | |
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Supernova The Book Chamber
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:53 pm | |
| Indeeeeeed, if they can't even hold a play because of a word that's in the dialogue, what are these students going to do when they're out in the real world and nobody censors themselves there? | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:44 am | |
| They should have just added a disclaimer at the beginning of the play that it would contain crass language, and why. It's ridiculous that the play would be cancelled because of harsh, but in-context language, used to illustrate one of its points. | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:06 pm | |
| - Supernova wrote:
- Indeeeeeed, if they can't even hold a play because of a word that's in the dialogue, what are these students going to do when they're out in the real world and nobody censors themselves there?
Like most kids who are reared in political correctness, they'll either not know what to do or sick the ACLU on anybody who pisses them off. | |
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RedBedroom …is a Chamber DEITY.
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:18 pm | |
| We can't be so fast to blame the school.
I have a lot of problems with the way most schools are run and how they make decisions. But you can't really fault a school for covering their ass. So, as soon as controversy is brought up in the public, they have to back down a lot of times. | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:40 pm | |
| - Forgiveness_Man wrote:
- ^^^^Political correctness, makes you really wonder doesn't it?
I stopped wondering long ago. I'm certain that PC is an Orwellian attempt to control the way we think by the way we speak. "Firefighter", "flight attendant", and "food server" may seem benign but they are all examples of the PC culture that is helping to ruin this country. Another is the practice of giving out awards for mediocrity so the loser’s feelings won’t be hurt. | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:45 pm | |
| - alan smithee wrote:
I stopped wondering long ago. I'm certain that PC is an Orwellian attempt to control the way we think by the way we speak. "Firefighter", "flight attendant", and "food server" may seem benign but they are all examples of the PC culture that is helping to ruin this country. Another is the practice of giving out awards for mediocrity so the loser’s feelings won’t be hurt. O_O When did you start saying thinks I totally agree with? | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Mon Nov 08, 2010 4:13 pm | |
| - Forgiveness_Man wrote:
- O_O When did you start saying thinks I totally agree with?
Exactly, to paraphrase Walter: Screw you, you put out fires? You're a fireman. You show people to their seats on flights and bring them pillows? You're a stewardess. You serve people food? You're either a waiter or somebody's mom. | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Mon Nov 08, 2010 6:54 pm | |
| More taken back about how they say they couldn't take the word out because of "copyright laws". A school play couldn't negate the word. Really? I understand why they community was up in arms about the word being uttered, it IS an offensive one and this IS a school play. Schools across America do productions of West Side Story that tame the original language for the kids in the audience. The overall impact of a TKAM production wouldn't have been lost without use of that word. | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:01 pm | |
| - Forgiveness_Man wrote:
- O_O When did you start saying thinks I totally agree with?
Apparently at about 5:40 PM GMT :biggrin: | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:14 pm | |
| - alan smithee wrote:
Apparently at about 5:40 PM GMT :biggrin: Wow, that's a moment to mark down cause I don't see it happening again too soon. | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:00 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:01 pm | |
| - Shale wrote:
[Citation Needed] I didn't know we cited. Nobody's cited any of their own views anywhere else. | |
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| Subject: Re: N-Word Cancels School's 'Mockingbird' Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:01 pm | |
| Just a coupon? I don't get an autographed copy? | |
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