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Book banned from Brooklyn libraries for depicting Africans as monkeys
NYDailyNews ^
| 8-21-09
| Erin Durkin and Simone Weichselbaum
Posted on 08/22/2009 11:31:45 AM PDT by past_present
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To: past_present
When I was a kid whenever adults made an uproar over a book they felt was unfit for teenagers, their efforts assured that we all got our hands on it and devoured every word.
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posted on
08/22/2009 12:11:52 PM PDT
by
freespirited
(The only thing growing faster than the deficit is Chris Matthews' man crush on Obama -- Tim Pawlenty)
To: past_present
You can call me a prophet then. I guarantee you my friend- Ann will be behind the hidden doors any day now.As she should, --so that her books can continue to be checked out.
A popular liberal tactic is to "re-shelve" controversial books so that nobody can find them. No doubt there are many copies of Coulter's books hidden away behind stacks of childrens' or gardening books, listed as "unable to locate" in library computers.
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posted on
08/22/2009 12:17:00 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: past_present
Ann will be behind the hidden doors any day now.I doubt it
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posted on
08/22/2009 12:21:35 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: past_present
Look if the book has been out longer than you’ve been alive just STFU and understand that the world doesn’t revolve around you and how you feel. GEEZ what is wrong with people today and how will they ever survive if they hav to face any sort of hardship?
To: jmcenanly
"Brooklyn's chief librarian has yanked a nearly 80-year-old book from the shelves because it depicts Africans as monkeys." I see some dated depictions of blacks but no monkeys
Liberals aways bring monkeys into these things which to me says that there is projection going on
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posted on
08/22/2009 12:25:06 PM PDT
by
Charlespg
(The Mainstream media is the enemy of democracy destroy the mainstream media)
To: freespirited
Yes I have to agree with you about that. When the warning labels went onto music in the mid 80’s that pretty much insured a hit album if it got the parental warning!
To: past_present
Not if we can take back the libraries.
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posted on
08/22/2009 12:37:37 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
To: past_present
Your request for Tintin au Congo / Hergé. was successful.
You will be able to pick up this material at Highlawn (42) when it is ready .
Copyright © 2009 Brooklyn Public Library | Terms & Conditions
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posted on
08/22/2009 12:40:11 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
To: past_present
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1I-Or2ze18/RdkYy6kPVxI/AAAAAAAAAJM/_ti3bmPwmCE/s320/funny+glasses.jpg)
I'm offended. That library is specieist!
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posted on
08/22/2009 12:41:24 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: past_present
New Yorkers head to their library.
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posted on
08/22/2009 12:43:48 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Democrat - The Party of Bull Connor, slavery, Jim Crow laws, Obama and Suzanne Kosmas)
To: past_present
My mother had to remove, “Little Black Sambo” and “Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby”, from her school library years ago. I thought that these were classics of children's literature and thought those removals were unfair. A note put on the book about changing attitudes, would of sufficed.
To: past_present
I remember when my public university locked “The Joy of Sex” in what was called “the cage” and the “Playboy” issue that featured a professor was locked in the attic.
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posted on
08/22/2009 12:48:17 PM PDT
by
bgill
(The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
To: Charlespg
Yeah, I’m not seeing the monkeys...
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posted on
08/22/2009 12:48:19 PM PDT
by
Sloth
(Irony: Freepers who call Ron Paul a "nut" but swallow all the birth certificate conspiracy crap.)
To: jmcenanly
Pidgin French, big pale lips, worshipping the white visitor - offensive caricature, but not monkeys.
To: trumandogz
Where is the censorship?
The library can't pass an all-encompassing, universal
law to censor such books---it can't, legally or morally, ask any library other than itself to perform similarly---but it can perform, and apparently has performed, its own censorship for and within its own facility. We're no further enjoined from assailing its own censorship, however, than we would be enjoined from assailing any attempt by any government to consecrate any sort of censorship by law.
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posted on
08/22/2009 12:48:38 PM PDT
by
BluesDuke
(If you think it's wise to fool Mother Nature, just ask Father Time's divorce lawyer)
To: past_present
As the signs in front of the libraries in Lefty towns always say, "Read a banned book this week." I guess they mean to read the books banned by
other people, not themselves.
Glad to oblige in any case, if the writer is good. Hergé is clean, good-hearted fun. Anyone who takes offense at innocent caricatures in cartoons might as well be a Moslem.
To: dog breath
To: BluesDuke
The library can't pass an all-encompassing, universal law to censor such books---it can't, legally or morally, ask any library other than itself to perform similarly---but it can perform, and apparently has performed, its own censorship for and within its own facility. We're no further enjoined from assailing its own censorship, however, than we would be enjoined from assailing any attempt by any government to consecrate any sort of censorship by law. I am not by any means a "book burner" but to some extent to believe in "community standards" which has kept pornography out of libraries in conservative communities.
So, in the case, I must stand with the Brooklyn Library, while you stand with the ACLU.
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posted on
08/22/2009 1:03:34 PM PDT
by
trumandogz
(The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
To: jmcenanly
Love love love Tintin.
Librarians get worked up over ‘freedom of speech’ observations but are very quick to squelch dissenting views.
To: past_present
I’m not a lawyer, but I suspect the library’s action would not hold up to a civil lawsuit. My understanding is that public libraries must first establish criteria as to what constitutes an “offensive” book; that is, they can’t simply act in an arbitrary fashion regarding particular books.
This is how it works for public school libraries, so I suspect the law would be even more rigorous for municipal libraries. In schools, a parent or group of parents can’t simply insist a book be removed. Formal democratic procedures must be followed.
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