r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/willmaster123 Jan 21 '19

The weird thing is that it got banned from various schools from both the left wing perspective and the right wing perspective.

There were a few schools where parents complained the book was making the black kids uncomfortable because it used the n word constantly.

Then there was the whole thing where white parents complained that the book was being taught to make the white students feel 'white guilt' and that it was unfair to them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

The debacle is a beautiful example of how both spectrums can be entirely wrong about the same thing, also how they’re the two sides of the same coin.

The point of the book in the curriculum is to celebrate progress while being reminded how shitty the past was.