Homer is Racist, Evidently

[r3volution 3.0]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/even-ho...ed-11609095872

A sustained effort is under way to deny children access to literature. Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers and Twitter agitators are purging and propagandizing against classic texts—everything from Homer to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Dr. Seuss.

Their ethos holds that children shouldn’t have to read stories written in anything other than the present-day vernacular—especially those “in which racism, sexism, ableism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of hate are the norm,” as young-adult novelist Padma Venkatraman writes in School Library Journal. No author is valuable enough to spare, Ms. Venkatraman instructs: “Absolving Shakespeare of responsibility by mentioning that he lived at a time when hate-ridden sentiments prevailed, risks sending a subliminal message that academic excellence outweighs hateful rhetoric.”

Apparently the illiterates of recent, poorly educated generations now think themselves fit to criticize Homer and Shakespeare.

[CaptUSA]

So it's not enough to go back 30 or 40 years to find something in someone's past to denigrate them by today's standards, they're going back hundreds and thousands of years?? Apparently, we cannot be expected to understand "context".

...risks sending a subliminal message that academic excellence outweighs hateful rhetoric.

Um... Doesn't it, though??

[Invisible Man]

These folks look out and see a disparity in living standards and conclude that the way to lift up the underrepresented groups is by removing what little opportunities for academic excellence they still have.