Yes.

Do people over the age of 6 “burst into tears?”

Personally, I believe excusing the ‘classics’ and conviniently forgetting that they’re written by the same people (wealthy white dudes for the most part) to impart their values to kids is just another tool to crap on people from different backgrounds.

School districts that teach Twain in elementary school tend to stick to Tom Sawyer and don’t teach Huckleberry Finn until high school.

You aren’t well.

So, characters in fiction should never say, think, or do offensive things.

I think they call him king of the negroes or something like that.

It’s a shame France doesn’t have restrictive gun laws, limiting ownership to hunters and only with criminal and psychological background checks, because this kind of thing would never have happened.

What other bad ideas should be illegal?

Except Finn’s a terrible example, because he actually tried to do something about it.

As it is for most Catholics.

There definitely should be things that you can’t say.

Teacher: Bob says you stole his lunch money.

It seems clear that the defamation suits will keep piling up until one judge allows the prosecution to question Cosby about the scores of alleged victims and his interaction with each of the women during a deposition.

As it should be.

The OPs tend not to troll

That’s pretty fucking stupid.

I think it’s a pretty craven thing of the school to do but, I think it might do some good.

grown f*cking people aged 18-80 who can’t participate in an adult political discussion

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