THE KILLING OF PIPPI LONGSTOCKING
Pippi Longstocking from a cartoon cell
It was bound to happen. The politically correct goons (translate cultural communists and feminists) who now run the country of Sweden have started a purge of Pippi Longstocking books (pronounced Pip-ee), perhaps the most popular children's books in Sweden and in much of the world where the books have been translated and distributed. The reason? Why, they are "racist," of course!
Here is what the news-site BREITBARD says:
A Swedish council has admitted that local libraries have been
throwing out copies of a popular children’s book because it contains racist
expressions, with one local journalist even claiming the books are being
burnt.
Older versions of the Pippi Langstrumpf [Pippi Longstocking] book
entitled ‘Pippi in the South Seas,’ have been discarded by libraries in the
Botkyrka municipality.
The Botkyrka council has denied claims by Swedish investigative journalist
Janne Josefsson that libraries are specifically targeting Astrid Lindgren’s
Pippi Langstrumpf books, explaining that getting rid of books is a necessary
process ‘in order for the space in the shelves to be sufficient.’
They stated that they get rid of books which are ‘worn out,’ ‘outdated’ or
‘have not been borrowed for a long time,’ but admitted to disposing of
the Pippi Langstrumpf copies due to ‘racist’ content and replacing them with
newer editions without the ‘racial’ phrases.
…
The new edition of the book has replaced the phrase ‘king of the
Negroes’ or ‘Negro king’ – in reference to Pippi’s father, who Pippi
and her friends find in the Canny Canny Islands after his mysterious
disappearance – with ‘king of the South Seas’ or ‘South Sea king.’
The Pippi Langstrumpf series has also been condemned in the past as using
‘colonial racist stereotypes’ by a German theologian, who described one scene
in ‘Pippi in the South Seas’ where black children throw themselves into
the sand in front of white children.
“The culled specimens of ‘Pippi in the South Seas’ have been discarded and
handled according to the same routines as all other obsolete books”, said the
local authority.
A still from a movie about Pippi Longstocking
The Front Cover of one of the Pippi Books
Another cover from a Pippi Book
In my recently released book AN IMMIGRANT REMEMBERS, I wrote a paragraph about Pippi Longstocking, and how my parents read these books to my sister and me when we were children. I in turn have read the books to MY children. Here is what I wrote on page 81:
My mother’s reverie was interrupted by the nurse and midwife
who informed the “all clear” was given, and she could go back to her own room. There was no bombing. So, any peace plans my mother might have wanted to make were put on hold for the duration! One day, the nurse came in and asked mother if she would be a "guinea pig" for a couple of nurse candidates who were being given their final exam. Since there was not much to do except read, mother consented readily, wanting to know what she should do. "Well, we don't normally do this sort of thing in the nursery," she said, but mother could go and be cared for in there by the two candidates. "What shall I wear?" mother wanted to know. The outfit was decided upon and the details worked out. The show began the very next morning. Mother was always good at describing people. The two nurse candidates were young, beautiful and decidedly nervous; the examining nurses were stern and wore expressions of hags! Mother compared them to the characters in the "Pippi Longstocking" (Pip ee) books! If you have not read them, they are worth it! My folks read them to me when I was a little boy; I in turn read them to my kids. Basically, they are children's books written by Astrid Lindgren, a Swedish author who had enough clout to worry the Swedish prime minister when she opened her mouth in public! She knew how to successfully appeal to children by writing as they would think; the books are a riot. Pippi was a girl with bright yellow braids who was enormously strong. She could lift a horse with two hands, could easily remove two policemen from her house with her arms and carry them into the street by their belt buckles when they tried to force her to go to public school! She lived alone in a house with a small monkey and a horse which she kept in her kitchen! She had a bag of gold coins inherited from her deceased father, a sea captain and former ruler of a group of South Sea cannibals! And her two best friends were a couple of nice, normal kids, a brother and sister who lived next door. When the local old female busybodies decided she needed to go to school Pippi taught them a lesson they did not quickly forget! So, when mother compared the examining nurses to the book characters, I "got the picture!"
Author Astrid Lindgren with a copy of one of her books
This kind of stupidity reminds me of the destruction and banning of BLACK FAIRY TALES: THE ORIGINAL TALES OF UNCLE REMUS which contain almost 300 stories from the old plantation days in the American South. They are denied to generations of black youth who have missed a huge portion of their heritage for the same absurd reason that somehow the tales are "racist!" The idiocy never ends.
The Cover from an Uncle Remus Book
Cartoon Character Huckleberry Hound tells
Uncle Remus Stories to kids!
The jacket from an Album featuring songs from WALT DISNEY'S SONG OF THE SOUTH, a popular movie of the day.
"Uncle Remus" as played by an actor in Walt Disney's
SONG OF THE SOUTH.
It is time to end the war on cultures, allow people to be themselves and stop censorship of the marvelous stories from history. The people that do the censoring are really and truly the biggest bigots of all time!!
Written
by
Harald Hesstvedt Scharnhorst
