In this episode, you're going to hear us make a lot of jokes about Little House on the Prairie and the other books in the Little House series.

And these books are at the center of the conversation about white supremacy in children's literature.

And after recording the episode, we realized that the way we talked about these books just didn't feel right to us.

Yeah, I in particular found myself talking about Little House in a way that sounded oblivious.

Like I didn't know that these are very problematic books, and I'm sorry for that.

We're not ignorant of the fact that these books promote a white colonialist worldview and contain extremely racist depictions of Native American and Black people.

Yeah, to be clear, we're not saying you can't make jokes about that book, it's racist.

What we're saying is that making jokes about a book without acknowledging that it's racist isn't funny, and we don't want to do that.

Yeah, but we are airing the episode as we originally recorded it because I in particular don't want to pretend like I never made this mistake and I want to promise to do better in the future.

Yeah, so all this is to say it doesn't mean we want to avoid talking about problematic art or that that's even possible.

We just want to do a better job of it when we do.

Yeah, and there's a podcast about this topic that I've been listening to recently and I want to recommend.

It explores the question of how to deal with art and artists that are both beloved and deeply flawed.

It's called Fanty, F-A-N-T-I. It's hosted by Jared Hill and Travelle Anderson, and you can find it wherever you get podcasts.

I'm Molly.

And I'm Matthew.

And this is Spilled Milk, the show where we cook something delicious, eat it all, and you can't have any.

And today we are talking about knife skills.

Yes, this was suggested by listener Lexapoe. Are we sure it's not Lexapoe?

I double-check that. It's Lexapoe.

Lexapoe, on Reddit. Thank you, listener Lexapoe.

Yeah, so I'm excited for this one.

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