To Kill a Mockingbird ’cancelled’ over so-called ’racist white saviour narrative’

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says a leading school in Scotland “has decided to cancel“ Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird because of its so-called “racist white saviour narrative“. “White saviour is the white man coming to save the black. Terribly patronising. And this is not just happening in Britain. The book has been banned by some schools in the US, and a school in Canada has also pressured teachers not to teach it,“ Mr Bolt said. “Now critics today who see everything through the eyes of race – just like the villains in To Kill a Mockingbird – yes, this is a white saviour book. A white lawyer Atticus Finch fights to save a black man unfairly accused of murder and convicted by a racist jury despite his pleas to look at the evidence.