This post got my blood boiling! An attack on western civilisation. A civilisation that has done so much for the world, invented so much, taken us into huge technological advancement, defeated abject poverty in huge numbers, improved health and medicine etc etc. and now, a bloke gets out of his backward country of birth to get a better life in the West and then he starts shitting on the very civilisation that improved his life beyond his wildest imaginations but, typical Marxist lefty, he now starts to attack that very civilisation that has enriched him! Why does he not go back to the Dominican Republic and enjoy the benefits of civil war, coups, political upheaval, poverty etc. Hey, maybe he can upgrade and go live in Haiti and teach his drivel there! We have the same issue here in the UK, people do whatever it takes to get into the country, even illegally, and then try rip it all apart and insult our way of life as evil, misogynistic, racist, etc etc. It is all BS and has no foundation in fact. Is western civilisation perfect, no, not at all but it is constantly improving and moving forward and it is the best base to work from, unlike Cuba, China, Africa, Venezuela, Haiti, Dominican Republic etc etc. where a lot of what he says he would be imprisoned for just for thinking about it, let alone writing a book about it!
Thank you! 45 years ago as an English major I got so tired of the limitations of the canon, and especially the white male-ness of it. And the colonialism of it. And the racism of it. And so many books with war as a theme in there somewhere. Why have we not gone farther with this?
Right? I'm sometimes astonished that I stuck with English studies through the master's degree, considering all the abuse that got a pass in the name of literature. Speaking of war, the most dreadful book I had to teach in high school was The Red Badge of Courage. I might not have minded quite so much if Stephen Crane had actually been a Civil War veteran, but he wasn't. My male colleagues loved it--a mystery to me.
This post got my blood boiling! An attack on western civilisation. A civilisation that has done so much for the world, invented so much, taken us into huge technological advancement, defeated abject poverty in huge numbers, improved health and medicine etc etc. and now, a bloke gets out of his backward country of birth to get a better life in the West and then he starts shitting on the very civilisation that improved his life beyond his wildest imaginations but, typical Marxist lefty, he now starts to attack that very civilisation that has enriched him! Why does he not go back to the Dominican Republic and enjoy the benefits of civil war, coups, political upheaval, poverty etc. Hey, maybe he can upgrade and go live in Haiti and teach his drivel there! We have the same issue here in the UK, people do whatever it takes to get into the country, even illegally, and then try rip it all apart and insult our way of life as evil, misogynistic, racist, etc etc. It is all BS and has no foundation in fact. Is western civilisation perfect, no, not at all but it is constantly improving and moving forward and it is the best base to work from, unlike Cuba, China, Africa, Venezuela, Haiti, Dominican Republic etc etc. where a lot of what he says he would be imprisoned for just for thinking about it, let alone writing a book about it!
To be honest, I have no idea what you're referring to. Not sure this is even in response to this post.
Thank you! 45 years ago as an English major I got so tired of the limitations of the canon, and especially the white male-ness of it. And the colonialism of it. And the racism of it. And so many books with war as a theme in there somewhere. Why have we not gone farther with this?
Right? I'm sometimes astonished that I stuck with English studies through the master's degree, considering all the abuse that got a pass in the name of literature. Speaking of war, the most dreadful book I had to teach in high school was The Red Badge of Courage. I might not have minded quite so much if Stephen Crane had actually been a Civil War veteran, but he wasn't. My male colleagues loved it--a mystery to me.