Posted on 11/28/2023 5:51:17 AM PST by MtnClimber
Holidays bring family together and whenever the conversation starts with, “I don’t want to start an argument but…” an argument is likely to ensue. Because my sister and I have nearly diametrically opposed political views, mine conservative and hers liberal, I guess she felt comfortable in asking my opinion in the defense of what she must see as right-wing, conservative-driven efforts to ban certain books from school libraries. She claimed that this wave of book-banning and censorship was a renewed force of current origin, at least in its intensity and numbers. She declared that nothing good ever came from censorship.
My sister is a well-educated, well read, (albeit of the New York Times variety) and strongly outspoken woman of the world. Later in her career, she devoted herself to humanitarian causes, often times putting herself in harms way having served in as many as ten war zones over the course of her career in caring
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In closing, I think the short answer to my sister’s inquiry is the fact that recent events have awakened parents and their sudden scrutiny is unearthing books, teachers, practices, policies, and programs that do not match the values of those families and, once seeing this with their own eyes, they’re fighting back and all of that noise is making its way to the ears of all American’s, including hers.
The hypocrisy of liberals who celebrate abortion while abhorring the death penalty, (kill the innocent and spare the guilty), hate guns/cops but love criminals, (make people defenseless, defund police) and encourage the availability of obscene books to young kids while simultaneously embracing the concept of “hate speech,” (debase our children and muzzle your detractors), to these people the word logic can in no way enter a emotionally-driven mind that somehow balances all of that wrong-think.
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Saying that a book is not appropriate for children is much different than banning a book.
Do schools put Playboy, Penthouse or Hustler on their library racks for the little dears to check out? If not, why not?
In my case it is my brother that says, "Any thinking person would have to agree..."
You can bet whatever comes next, I ain't gunna agree with.
Correct, and a concept beyond the reach of the ‘progressive’ mind.
I have three brothers and we all share similar outlooks.
They think banning books is a great idea if they contain what the left decides is*Misinformation* or contains non-woke thinking and yet porn and other abominations and brainwashing are *free* speech.
Another one they use is, "Your smarter than that", when retorting your comment. They then go on to state just how stupid they are.
Its just a tactic to shut down any debate.
My sister claims that this wave of book-banning and censorship was a renewed force, at least in its intensity and numbers, and declared that nothing good ever came from censorship. —————————————————————————
Your sister is comparing apples with oranges.
She obviously has visions of horrific 1933-era govt-dominated public book burnings. The book burnings took place across Germany and stood as a powerful symbol of the Nazi govt’s intolerance and censorship.
That has nothing whatever to do with parental concern about what their children might read. Wouuld your sister say the same thing if libraries were to censor anti-Semitic tomes from schools?
Yet the lefties want Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn banned for the n-word.
The lefties want speakers and and teachers banned for quoting the n-word in context.
But not those of a certain demographic.
Who are the true censors?
There is no moral equivalence between a single word relevant to the culture at the time (and used in context) and detailed descriptions of depravity (which would earn an NC-17 or X rating as movies) marketed to underage children (which should earn a long prison term for contributing to delinqunecy of a minor).
They might as well add copies of the quran and the Book of Mormon as well.
And I bet those “banned” books are available at the local book store and county library.
Sadly some of the books I’ve seen offered to children look no different than books I saw in a Porn shop in the 1970s.
Do schools put Playboy, Penthouse or Hustler on their library racks for the little dears to check out? If not, why not?
Damn good points.
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