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Wut up ns, just thought i would drop this one on ya today cause its a pretty interesting question. Today in my intro to American history class we had a test... fronteirs, settlement, native americans slavery, yada yadaa same old bullshit about how high school just lies to you and they expect you to love history now cause we the ( "collegiate nobles") inspired a deeper interpretation into American History. Reading this bullshit book by James Lowen...pm me if you have read it and we can talk about about what a wack job this guy is and how much he hates his life and his job and the fact that hes more of a sellout than those he is accusing of being sellouts. ANYWAYS. I got to the last page of my test and the bonus question was: " what are the two WORDS that have been banned from high school history textbooks?" My first thought is like oh shit ik this but then i was like oh wait it says words not books....huh wtf? Ok so after reciting the english language aloud and 40000000000 hours later i still couldnt come up with anything good. I mean words? seriously. So eventually the will of my bad spirit gave in and NATURALLY i wrote..... NIGGER AND NIGGER. I stood up with just a smudgen of satisfaction and handed my test directly to my teacher with a small but noticeable grin. So now i come back to my dorm throw on some phish and ponder what ill do the rest of the day when i remember this question. So after a thorough hour long search on the internet i couldnt find anything...not a drop of banned WORDS. So ns this is why i come to you, for relief of my buirning desire to know the answer, for clarification, but mostly for tantamount in thought. So if you dont think its NIGGER NIGGER, what the bloody elll is it?
I'm not familiar with James Lowell, but you should try reading some Howard Zinn. Especially A People's History of the United States. What makes you think those words have to be swears? What if it's something like "good" or "bad".My old history teacher did his best to keep up from using those two words when in a certain context.
sorry man but your boy Zinn straight jacked Nietzschie's thesis that he bases his entire life on....that being said im sure its a great book cause i really loved the way Nietzschie open my eyes to that kind of thinking, aside from him being an ignorant drunk hes pretty smart
hmm. personally I would have put "none" and "are". simply because there are no words that are banned from history textbooks. There may, however, be textbooks that are banned from certain institutions and curriculums because they contain certain words. My guess is your teacher is going give you a zero for writing nigger on the exam...
if you really think the n word is an offensive gesture...well then i gotta just ask you to go have a conversation with any intellectual african american, my teacher wouldnt give me a zero for writing a word that bears no emotion tie to enlightened free thiniking blacks and whites
I got given a zero for something similar. teacher even tried to kick me out of university for it, but got nowhere with it. wasn't even as bad. I was bored in class at the end of an exam and wasn't allowed to leave so people didn't get disturbed so I wrote the lyrics of a song that was stuck in my head on the back of it. person marking got offended by them and bullshit ensued.
people are ignorant, thats what it went as far as it did for you and thats why it was laughed off as easily as you say it was by the administrative branch
haha I can't say I'm familiar with Nietzschie or any of his works. Still worth a read if you're looking to get some insight into authentic american history