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Do y'all mind if I interrogate these principles that everyone is telling me I don't understand, #DisruptTexts?
On #1: No, you don't believe this. In fact, you've consistently shut down any discussion on interrogating your own biases as progressives and Americans...
On #1: No, you don't believe this. In fact, you've consistently shut down any discussion on interrogating your own biases as progressives and Americans...
...My predominant critique of #DisruptTexts is that it is an American exceptionalist movement: 4 American teachers deciding what is good, relevant, and moral literature, that just all "COINCIDENTALLY" happens to be American literature. Y'all don't notice that?...
.... #DisruptTexts is dedicated to finding "white supremacy" in the MERE EXISTENCE of books written by "white people" that happen to have been good and therefore get read, but you DON'T NOTICE that you're all Americans who are mass denouncing books that are not American?
Furthermore, #DisruptTexts axiomatically ASSUMES, does not interrogate, the idea that culture and ethnicity are irrelevant in distributing texts along racial lines. What you call "white" is an American imposition on wildly diverse foreign cultures...
... #DisruptTexts assumes a priori and axiomatically that The Bible and Nietzsche, Homer and Twain, are reducible to a "white" canon that somehow all convey the same values. And that's after YOU'VE already reduced the canon to only works by authors of European ancestry.
Not to mention the bias #DisruptTexts frequently expresses towards "books written before the 50's"... That's one of those times that it tells on itself: if you think lit before the 50's is irrelevant, you NEED to read more of it. That's why antiquated lit needs to be studied.
One of the things I felt the absence of my own K-12 education in the classics denied me was the richness of knowing that humankind - HUMANKIND - has been dealing with these same innate questions of the human condition since before we wrote it down. #DisruptTexts disdains this...
... #DisruptTexts operates on the Year Zero assumption that people are blank slates to be overwritten by whoever controls the means of media production. That is demonstrably untrue and demonstrably dangerous. There is beauty to our shared human condition your biases deny...
...At the very least, #DisruptTexts might want to interrogate their bias about old lit being unrelatable if over 6 billion Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. exist. Apparently a LOT MORE people think thousands of years old books are perfectly relatable & relevant
...Or is THAT the problem? Is #DisruptTexts problem that people DO relate to books that are thousands of years old? Is old lit getting in the way of implementing Year Zero? And if that's the case, are you actually TEACHING or are you PROPAGANDIZING? And is it merely a bias then?
