/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5004236]

Daily reminder that if you rank the classics above modern literature by people of color, you are nothing but a bigoted racist. Classic means literature plus privilege. If you allow such shit into your brain you will surely gain the mental attitude of an oppressive shitlord.

[Anonymous No.5004248]

To Kill a Mockingbird sucks eggs

[Anonymous No.5004249]

>modern literature
>worth anything no matter what color the author

Even for a shitpost, 0/10

[Anonymous No.5004253]

>>5004236
I agree, everyone should be able to enjoy the works of Frederick Douglass, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ishmael Reed, August Wilson, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Melvin B. Tolson, Jay Wright, Rita Dove and Thylias Moss

[Anonymous No.5004255]

>positive discrimination
>2014
You would be the problem if things ended up the other way around.
Classics are better, deal with it.

[Anonymous No.5004256]

>>5004248
Good thing it was written by a white woman you braindead retard

[Anonymous No.5004257]

Whilst there's actual legitimate value to the sentiment behind what you're saying (though I'm sure you were trying to make a joke), lots of authors of color couldn't even get publishing rights back in the day so many potential classics have either been lost to us or simply never were

[Anonymous No.5004259]

>>5004236
>rank the classics above modern literature by people of color

What about classics by people of color?

[Anonymous No.5004261]

>>5004256
No it wasn't.

[Anonymous No.5004265]

>>5004236
What if I rank classics by people of color (Alexandre Dumas) above modern literature by white people? Am I oppressive or not?

[Anonymous No.5004268]

>>5004259
nobody outside of russia cares about pushkin bro and russians are basically the africans of the white race

[Anonymous No.5004274]

>>5004259
My nigger <3

[Anonymous No.5004303]

>>5004268
Actually anyone studying Russian literature to literally any depth beyond Dostoevsky and Tolstoy will come across him

[Anonymous No.5004322]

>>5004261
You're right. Harper Lee is clearly a black woman...

[Anonymous No.5004323]

>>5004303
and then they'll read an essay by some guy about how he kind of sucks in translation and not bother reading him unless they are complete nerds

[Tallis !!DxrlCMGAS2J No.5004326]

>>5004259
>pushkin
>at work
>in 1899
top kek

[Anonymous No.5004341]

>>5004265
>mfw reading about Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

What a badass, Why isn't there a movie about this guy?

[Anonymous No.5004347]

>>5004322
Yeah, no shit, you fucking retard. Is that picture supposed to prove otherwise?

[Anonymous No.5004350]

>>5004303
and they should kill themselves

[Anonymous No.5004351]

>>5004326
how does it feel to have brain damage?

[Anonymous No.5004355]

>>5004341
A hollywood movie about a non-american war involving a person of colour as the lead? You must think about that one again

Toussaint Louverture would also make great film material in the right hands, idk who could pull it off though. Maybe if Steve McQueen gets over the Oscars he can take the good bits from 12yas and turn it into something worthwhile

[Anonymous No.5004366]

>>5004351
It's impossible to paint a portrait of someone without using a live model, didn't you know, Anonymous?

[Tallis !!DxrlCMGAS2J No.5004385]

>>5004341
because he actually was the kind of plagiarism

[Anonymous No.5004395]

>>5004385
He plagiarised his war victories?

[Anonymous No.5004401]

>classic means literature plus privilege
I know this is bad shitposting, but
>implying

[Anonymous No.5004411]

>>5004401
A book doesn't count as a classic until it's at least 100 years old.

[Anonymous No.5004413]

>>5004411
Says who?

[Anonymous No.5004442]

>>5004413
I

[Anonymous No.5005930]

>someone posted my OC