What a complicated story and yet apparently everyone involved was trying to do good for people. But burning books is not the way to do it. I'm not sure that it matters what the woman's racial background is. She was trying to help, but only succeeded in causing more dissention and bad feelings. People need to meet together and talk out their issues and concerns. Burning books doesn't help.
We don't find much about Canada's struggles with its past in the U.S. press. This story is causing much discussion world-wide--esp. Francophone nations.
Who deals with unwanted history / historical facts and artifacts by burning books? The level of ignorance is breathtaking. It could actually become a furtile ground for a revisionist history take some day with claims that those prejudice books never existed.
They stopped it today when they found out the woman who advised them was not really Aboriginal. Just in time for the annual Banned Books Week. https://bannedbooksweek.org/
What a complicated story and yet apparently everyone involved was trying to do good for people. But burning books is not the way to do it. I'm not sure that it matters what the woman's racial background is. She was trying to help, but only succeeded in causing more dissention and bad feelings. People need to meet together and talk out their issues and concerns. Burning books doesn't help.
We don't find much about Canada's struggles with its past in the U.S. press. This story is causing much discussion world-wide--esp. Francophone nations.
Who deals with unwanted history / historical facts and artifacts by burning books? The level of ignorance is breathtaking. It could actually become a furtile ground for a revisionist history take some day with claims that those prejudice books never existed.
They stopped it today when they found out the woman who advised them was not really Aboriginal. Just in time for the annual Banned Books Week. https://bannedbooksweek.org/
It's the wrong reason. Even if it was a real Aboriginal it would an ignorant, Taliban style destruction of a historical record.
This is getting a lot of attention in Belgium and France.
They called their book burning "The Giving Back to Mother Earth project." (!!)
1984 repeats itself: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
I hate how we're the prudes now
The characters in the video are from a comic book series in Europe called Asterix.
This story might not be noticed because it is Francophone Canada and that doesn't make our news. I didn't know Asterlix at all.
An abomination.
Good god