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Babaar the elephant

Riders

Riders

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Sometimes I have strange dreams where I recognize something strange from my childhood.

Several months ago I started seeing Babaar The Elephant from my childhood books I read in it.

So I did some research on it and those books are really political French books
They push French colonization
However many people say they are harmless.
But some book stores libraries have removed them from stock because of supremacist sexist ideas.
Does anyone have an opinion on this?
 
libre

libre

In flight
Staff member
Premium Member
Strangely enough, I remember having some dreams with Babaar in them as a kid that I still have a firm recollection of.

I think kids mostly like them because they are cute elephants, but the colonialism is very evident reading as an adult, it feels minimizing to even call it subtext.

Let the nostalgic enjoy them critically, but I think it's best to let the young form new attachments without the baggage.
I'm not one for removing books from libraries, but perhaps a different section than the kids are steered towards, so that they are accessible to those who go looking for them.
 
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Ignatius A

Well-Known Member
Riders said:
Sometimes I have strange dreams where I recognize something strange from my childhood.

Several months ago I started seeing Babaar The Elephant from my childhood books I read in it.

So I did some research on it and those books are really political French books
They push French colonization
However many people say they are harmless.
But some book stores libraries have removed them from stock because of supremacist sexist ideas.
Does anyone have an opinion on this?
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It seems to me that in just about any story you could find something objectionable if that's what your looking for. Jack and Jill stories could be sexist since it's not Jill and Jack.

I was once at some seminar or training and we were in small groups. We were asked to draw our families and share them with then group. I drew stick figures of myself my wife and kids as I'm not artist. When I shared it someone in the group asked me why the stick figure of me was bigger then the one for my wife. I said, "Because I'm taller than her." It's not a book but it's an example of people looking to be offended.
 
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