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[–] toobaditworks [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

“It would be easy to take these books off the shelf, to say that they – like many books of their time – were steeped in white supremacy and racism and therefore they do not belong in our canon,” James Noonan, a research affiliate with the Justice In Schools project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, wrote on the university’s website.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/jmnoonan/blog/reading-racism-or-how-i%E2%80%99m-learning-wrestle-little-house-prairie

And because the stories are so colorful and told with the wide-eyed wonder of a child, it’s also easy to be blindsided by the racism.

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[–] 13131426? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

They talk about whitewashing history the way one might speak of editing a movie script.

Canon is also an interesting word choice, given its dogmatic and religious context.