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  • Silvally@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.ml•TitleEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m a vegetarian.

    I was, and still am, surprised by how often people will go into a long rant justifying why they eat meat to me as soon as they find out I’m vegetarian. All the while I’m just sat there, not saying anything, because I literally do not care whether or not they eat meat.

    Me being a vegetarian is a personal choice for me and myself only. You do you. I don’t care. You don’t need to explain yourself to me. It makes me feel so awkward.

    People will often ask me why I’m a vegetarian too. But it feels like a very personal and heavy question to ask someone immediately after finding out they’re vegetarian… I don’t especially want to talk about animals dying all the time and how it makes me sad especially to strangers.

    Edit/Addition: It feels like a lot of focus is brought on how vegetarians/vegans force their views onto other people but my experience personally is non-vegetarians/vegans trying to force me into conversations about this topic.

  • Silvally@beehaw.orgtoLiterature@beehaw.org•Call to remove Of Mice and Men from GCSE courseEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For some additional context as someone who studied Of Mice and Men myself at GCSE which I don’t think this article covers. Do take this as a grain of salt as I completed my GCSEs over a decade ago and therefore the way this book is taught today will probably be different from my experiences.

    GCSEs are the first meaningful qualification that students in the UK get, so, the level of study and understanding at this stage is comparatively basic. For English Literature it boils down to “the author states that the curtains in the room are blue, this is a reflection of how the character is sad in this scene”.

    For this kind of level of education and for the subject that is being taught, I do not think it is necessary to use a book with racial slurs. What’s the benefit of forcing students to be exposed to racial slurs if the focus of the subject being taught isn’t even racism beyond “they call Crooks [insert slur here], this shows how he is isolated for being different and this plays into the themes of loneliness in this book”.