Dailee Disaster

       The Youtube Video “The Problem with Cancel Culture” I found really interesting and eye opening. Akandbi made a really good point at the beginning of the video, she said that “We undermine how easy it is for us to become the people that we dislike.” I think that this is very true. As a society we like to be quick to judge and form opinions without any sign of sympathy or empathy. It is also easier to look at characteristics in other people and find what we don’t like (we then cancel them for it) instead of being introspective and working on ourselves to become better people. This makes it easy to become people in which we dislike. I personally believe that as a society, we should be able to separate the life of the creator from their creations. If we were to look hard enough you would be able to find mistakes in any creator’s past that you could exploit as means of perpetuating cancel culture. So, with this being the case, I believe that it’s a vital skill to s...

 I think that Sherman Alexie contends that the best books written for young people should deal with hard subjects because that's what kids today are experiencing. If a kid hasn't personally encountered any of these struggles then they probably are aware of their existence. One of the best points he makes is that the real issue isn't that parents are trying to protect the kids being triggered by personal trauma, but parents "are simply trying to protect their privileged notions of what literature is and should be. They are trying to protect privileged children." This point really hit hard because I believe it to be 100% true. Parents that usually have problems with these kind of books are those who want to preserve their kids ignorance, which in this world is a privilege. In contrast, Meghan Cox has a lot to say about books being too dark for teens to consume. Cox says that books don't just mention these mature themes anymore and they go into gruesome details t...