Posted on 02/01/2022 10:37:30 AM PST by MAGA2017
...and Little Black Sambo...
LOL. So did we, plus a copy of “Reader’s Digest” in the bathroom for toilet reading. And “Life”, “Saturday Evening Post”, and others. Good mags back then.
Yes. You are correct!
Isn’t it ironic that Little Black Sambo is a story that takes place not in Africa, but in India.
I think it would be appropriate for middle school age children, possibly 4th or 5th graders. But it’s not just about what I think. “I don’t want my children reading this book” is not the same as “I don’t want ANYONE’s children reading this book.” Every parent has said the first statement at least once. The second statement advocates censorship, denies other parents the right to make decisions for their own children, and delegates parental responsibility to the state. When I was growing up my parents always looked at what I checked out from the school or public library.
it wouldn’t be appropriate for K-6 just for the horror of it all
but there’s plenty worse than that in the HS libraries where it is more age suitable
and yes, nothing stopping it from being in the public sphere where it truly belongs
and when i was young, children were restricted to the CHILDREN’S section... so
and yes, nothing stopping it from being in the public sphere where it truly belongs
The problem is I don't believe it will stop at the school libraries. Some of these groups have lists of hundreds of books they want to ban. I find it hard to believe that that's just intended for their local school libraries, rather than public libraries in general. I'm just trying to stop us from going down that slippery slope.
As a small-government libertarian conservative I am done turning a blind eye to authoritarian elements on the right as well as on the left. I am done with posters like DesertRhino who want the librarian to be arrested for peddling books that offend his delicate sensibilities while actual crimes with actual victims go unpunished.
Amen
Amen.
If a 9 year old could go through the camps - or be sold as a slave - a 9 year old in 2022 can damned well learn *EVERY* detail of what they went through. Utter contempt for ‘parents’ who think little precious should be shielded from *any* situation or action that any kid that age actually had to go through. I didn’t realize how many ostensible ‘conservatives’ are willing tp shield (pussify) their kids.
There’s a good reason that the original stories of the brothers Grimm were so horrifying, and there is never an age where kids shouldn’t be exposed to exactly how ghastly the real world is; 10 or 12 is perfectly fine the children of anyone who isn’t a raving dirtbag Nazi sympathizer or virulent white-supremacist to learn about the full detail of what happened to their Jewish or Black counterparts during the darkest times of history. Or any other horror.
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