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JustWait

On 10/1/2011 10:28 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:39:01 -0400, JustWait
wrote:

On 10/1/2011 8:31 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:17:37 -0400, X `
wrote:

...according to the American Library Assn: 1) And Tango Makes Three,
by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson; 2) The Absolutely True Diary of
a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie; 3) Brave New World, by Aldous
Huxley; 4) Crank, by Ellen Hopkins; 5) The Hunger Games, by Suzanne
Collins; 6) Lush, by Natasha Friend; 7) What My Mother Doesn't Know, by
Sonya Sones; 8) Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich; 9)
Revolutionary Voices, edited by Amy Sonnie; 10) Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

Brave New World? wow.
Twilight? hehehe.

Not hard to imagine who is behind book banning.

Brave new world is the only one I read. I can see why some people
think it is scandalous. Sex, drugs, test tube babies and questioning
god.
I am sure Falwell can get 1000 letters with one tirade on TV.

Personally I think the whole idea of banning books is silly. I would
have never read the Tropic if Cancer if it had not been banned and I
don't think I actually finished it. Once you got past the George
Carlin "7 word" rant on page 5 it really started dragging on and I
started not to care about these people's miserable lives.

The whole thread is a joke. They allowed the book, just not for younger
kids. It's the same with a lot of other books, but we know that if you
"compromise" with progressives, within a short time they are no longer
satisfied with that compromise and move on to the real end they were
looking for when they made the compromise... Most of these issues are
about the age that you get to start to indoctrinate, not if you do or not...

At the time of the Tropic of Cancer deal it was a city wide ban and I
am not talking about Birmingham or Boston. It was Washington DC and
virtually everywhere else in the US.
When they finally lifted the ban, the book flew off the shelves and
was just a quickly thrown away by most of the people who bought it I
imagine.

These days all of this is pretty silly. Has anyone looked at what is
on basic cable?
A responsible parent can still take care of what their kid watches on
tv... A responsible parent has no defense against a progressive teacher
with an agenda, well, as long as it is a progressive agenda. If a kid
says "God Bless You" however, you can be sure your kids will be
protected from that...