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To: AppyPappy
Just what we need. Another bigot.

Nah, we don't really need another bigot, but you'll keep hanging around like a skunk at a garden party, nevertheless.

Name at least 50 [would be book burners] then.

AppyPappy and his 49 clones.

Harry Potter is valid literature. So is Catcher in the Rye but I don't want my 2nd grader reading it in school.

Catcher in the Rye is written for an audience possessing greater maturity than that exhibited by the average 2nd grader. Your argument is either disingenuous or illogical (straw man fallacy).

It has no business in the schools.

Why? Cuz Appy dun sed it don't?

Parents can let their kids read Potter all they want. But it doesn't belong in the schools.

Sure it belongs in the schools, for the reasons I have outlined in my previous post. (That it is a piece of literature with clear language, character developement and plot suitable for the average elementary school aged child). You have made no case for why it should be banned from public schools, other than because you are a displeased and angry little man, much to be pitied.

415 posted on 11/27/2001 7:14:39 AM PST by Wm Bach
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To: Wm Bach
I noticed you bravely ran from the question of naming 50 people who want to ban Potter. I'll leave you to your Christian boogeymen that live under your bed. At least until you and your friends start building the camps to house the focus of your stained-sheet paranoia.
417 posted on 11/27/2001 7:18:30 AM PST by AppyPappy
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