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The Official Book Censorship Thread

For a lively discussion, you wouldn't happen to need someone to argue in favor of censorship would you?

Just kidding. Just kidding. :lol:
 
Peder said:
For a lively discussion, you wouldn't happen to need someone to argue in favor of censorship would you?

Just kidding. Just kidding. :lol:
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That would make it into an interesting discussion.That is the whole point,everyone saying their opinion.
 
Good idea, peder. Remember in debate class when your teacher would give you the position to defend that you didn't necessarily agree with? I think it would be interesting for someone against censorship to attempt to defend censorship and do it without uttering the phrases "will someone please think of the children" and "what about terrorists and those that would want to hurt us". I can think of no way better to inform yourself about "the other side".

Edit: NOT saying that person should be peder.
 
I went to a christian highschool, so the most "vulgar" book we probably were required to read was "Of Mice and Men." I know what it is like to be sheltered from certain aspects of life and I feel that parents need to take the journey with their kid. I remember the 1st vulgar book I got my hands on and I was shocked (I was also like 13). I didn't know such books were out there. One thing I hope to do with my child is not shelter them as much. Especially with books.
 
I also think that someone who is set in their opinion,either for ,or against it,it would be hard to participate in a discussion.It's seems it would become a debate and not be a discussion of two oposite opinions looking to each other to gain something.

I also grew up in a strict invironment,but as I was getting older and forming my own opinions, the same people that although they were telling me the right way,they were not following the same rules themselves.
I try to teach my kids to look at both sides of any subject and make their own opinion,and I know it won't always be the same as mine and I accept that but I will not shut them out of a revolving world.
 
slackergirl247 said:
I went to a christian highschool, so the most "vulgar" book we probably were required to read was "Of Mice and Men." I know what it is like to be sheltered from certain aspects of life and I feel that parents need to take the journey with their kid. I remember the 1st vulgar book I got my hands on and I was shocked (I was also like 13). I didn't know such books were out there. One thing I hope to do with my child is not shelter them as much. Especially with books.
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I think parents taking the journey with their kids is the best answer. Parents can't shelter their kids forever, so give them guidance.
 
When something is banned we long for it all the more and we find ways to have or re-create it. The power of not being allowed something makes me want it all the more. My father forbid me to read John Steinbeck and yet at 13 I found a way to read all of his books, but with my father there next to me teaching me about the evil and goodness of man.

liketoread
 
Leo had sent her an e-mail alerting her to Bill Martin Jr.'s listing on the Borders .com Web site as the author of Ethical Marxism.
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I just tried a search at Borders and got a list of children's books with the occasional scholary sounding title mixed in. It looks like the bookstore is a bit inconsistent in using the "Jr." title with the two authors. The fact that she couldn't (or wouldn't) make the distinction on her own is interesting. Maybe Terri Leo wishes she could have lived through the good 'ol days of the Red Scare.
 
Hmmm, the title of that book, "Ethical Marxism", is either redundant or an oxymoron, depending on your view point.

Just an observation. :whistling:
 
The state department of ed. must really have some serious cranks on it. To ban the esoteric writing of a professor, whose works will NEVER be read by any kid in a high school in Texas in all probabilit y, is only a testament to the close mindedness and knee-jerk mentality that some its members possess. Besides, we all know that the only bastion of socialism in Texas is located at the UT campus in Austin.:whistling:
 
In my school district, it seems with the books we read, they seem to being saying this:
"It's okay to decapitate someone and drink out of a human head, then kill yourself,but you can't use vulgar language while you do it."
I suggest books with heavy language AND gore, but our school system, seems to think that killing someone is a whole lot better than cursing. If any of you have read "Things Fall Apart", you know exactly what I'm talking about.
 
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