Do people on Lemmy think that Roots is erotica?
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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I think you're confusing one particularly vocal individual with the general population.
"Roots was recently elevated to the district’s review committee for consideration of a passage in chapter 84 for alignment to the state statute. Upon review, the committee determined that the identified passage met the legal threshold for “sadomasochistic abuse” as defined by the law."
They're removing the Bible too then, right?
Don't be ridiculous, they don't have any consistency in their beliefs.
I've never read the book but when I was young the miniseries came out and I watched it. From that point forward I always doubted what my family said about black folk. Somehow they watched it and came out as racist and bigoted as ever. I rewatched it and caught shit for doing so. To ban it is to know it really happened and to want to hide the truth.
I remember watching "Roots" in school, in 8th grade as part of our teacher's material for the year. We did reports about it. Levar Burton acted his ass off for that film. Same teacher had us watch "Beloved" too. I grew up in a very rural area too.
White people: Why do blacks hate and distrust us?
Answer: Shit like this is why.
Are they finally going to add the books of Clayton Bixby?
/s
Gonna be replaced by “All I ever needed to know, I learnt up in that thar holler”.
lol, i blocked that one jackass and now there's only 2 comments in this thread. folks, it's okay to block people for literally any reason at all. it can make the places you're in feel normal again. i entertained the thought process, but being compared to a pedophile for being more flexible with the literature with content appropriate for a high schooler is a pretty reasonable place to draw the block line, imo.
fuckin hell, so much "great american literature" that is considered a staple in the public school system has objectionable content at some level. many high schoolers have sex. being educated on it, and understanding what is fiction and what is academic is fully within their abilities and shouldn't be considered crazy. I don't know what's in roots, but this dude was spouting off about other banned books anyway.
i'm meandering a bit, but anyway i just want to reinforce that it's okay to just mute the noise.
Wish we had a nuclear block here like BlueSky. Would make it a lot better
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