Banning the Dictionary

IT does not matter, what is the more conservative position, to ban a book or allow it?
 
Jarod said:
IT does not matter, what is the more conservative position, to ban a book or allow it?
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It depends on what you are banning it for.

In some districts "To Kill a Mockingbird" was banned as well as "Tom Sawyer" because they were "racially insensitive"...
 
Would the kneejerk reaction be the same had it been a kindergarten school that chose to ban a book for similar reason, that being supposed as protection of younger innocents from premature exposure to adult themes?

They are not proposing to ban the book from all libraries...just the elementary school.

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It appears I misread. They are pulling it from all schools in the District. How stupid can people become?
 
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Do they not have the web in these classrooms and the library? There are many worse things on that medium that can be accessed very easily. Easier than reading the entire dictionary for unpleasant words, for sure!

I can only imagine as well that the dictionary definition of such an act is not gratuitous and is probably not a concern that could corrupt a child. The word sex itself is not explicit - it can even mean to indicate whether someone is male or female. Nor is the word oral a word of concern merely when printed on a dictionary page.

Together they mean to describe an act, but do not other acts like murder, suicide, terrorism also have definitions?

Speaking of which, it certainly sounds to me like this student was already searching for this or a similar term. I can't easily imagine that it was simply an accident that befell an unsuspecting reader.
 
the only book anyone needs is the bible. it tells you exactly what you need to know. everything else is secularist distraction
 
Atheistmark said:
I seriously doubt exposing children to basic knowledge about sex has any negative effect on their psyche at all.
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if you look at those documentaries of amazonian tribes deep in the jungle, the children regularly see nudity in their society. Consequently, they have not developed intellectually or technologically for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
 
┌∩┐(◣_◢)┌∩┐;590690 said:
if you look at those documentaries of amazonian tribes deep in the jungle, the children regularly see nudity in their society. Consequently, they have not developed intellectually or technologically for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
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Exactly, because who needs to improve when you're already getting ass?
 
┌∩┐(◣_◢)┌∩┐;590688 said:
the only book anyone needs is the bible. it tells you exactly what you need to know. everything else is secularist distraction
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I dunno, all those parts about laying with women, and the whole sodom and gomohrea(sp). Not very appropriate. Better not read at all.
 
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