Post #63
They just tried to remove it from school libraries, along with To Kill a Mockingbird and a few others because they mention words that some people find offensive.
Post #75
Had you actually participated in this site longer than a month or so, you would know we discussed this with links, etc. back when it was happening.
Did you know the NAACP in Arizona protested To Kill a Mockingbird?
Here is a short list of places it was banned...
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
by Harper Lee
Considered "dangerous" because of profanity and undermining of race relations.
Challenged (temporaily banned) in Eden Valley, Minnesota,
1977;
Vernon-Verona-Sherill, New York, School District,
1980;Warren, Indiana, township schools,
1981;Waukegan, Illinois, School District, 1984;
Kansas City, Missouri, junior high schools,
1985;Park Hill (Missouri) Junior High School,
1985.Protested by black parents and NAACP in Casa Grande (Arizona)
Elementary School District,
1985. See this link:
http://home.nvg.org/~aga/bulletin43.html
Post #79
Yet I backed it up with blatant link, and blatant fact. Interesting, when fact isn't lining up the way you want it to, you ignore fact and call it a "lie"...
Censorship is censorship, totalitarians live in both parties, they act the same and none of them will ever get my support. Apparently, belonging to a political "team" is more important to some people than actually taking a stand on what is right against tyrannic people who would use the power of government to enforce their values on others.
The problem is that door swings both ways. Imagine a Christian taking a stand against a book because there is a homosexual relationship in it... I would be against it.
Imagine the NAACP in Arizona taking a stand against a book that does more to help race relations than many written, simply because it displays racism in order to teach that lesson. I would be against that...
To Kill A Mockingbird is arguably one of the more important pieces of literature written in the South in the 60s... Yet they fought "against" it. Imagine a liberal group working to remove words from a book because they aren't PC enough... I would be against them too.
Imagine some idiot pastor trying to burn the Koran to cause a sick scene... I absolutely would be against that.
In every instance I would be against it, because it doesn't matter why totalitarianism is displayed. It is always wrong.
Post #83 ( a repeat of Post #75)
Had you actually participated in this site longer than a month or so, you would know we discussed this with links, etc. back when it was happening.
Did you know the NAACP in Arizona protested To Kill a Mockingbird?
Here is a short list of places it was banned...
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
by Harper Lee
Considered "dangerous" because of profanity and undermining of race relations.
Challenged (temporaily banned) in Eden Valley, Minnesota, 1977;
Vernon-Verona-Sherill, New York, School District, 1980;
Warren, Indiana, township schools, 1981;
Waukegan, Illinois, School District, 1984;
Kansas City, Missouri, junior high schools, 1985;
Park Hill (Missouri) Junior High School, 1985.
Protested by black parents and NAACP in Casa Grande (Arizona)
Elementary School District, 1985.
See this link:
http://home.nvg.org/~aga/bulletin43.html
Post #85
Right, because history doesn't matter so long as you are able to pretend that it doesn't. And the very real idea to change the words of the books is a "now" thing, but you'll want to ignore that too.
Society has changed, but censorship is still censorship and it is still being attempted now.
Post #87
I do realize that it is a liberal group that is quite literally changing literature to meet their own PC requirement, and that it is current.
And you also need to realize that it was a short list, there are still schools who ban that book from classrooms/libraries based on the objections of liberal groups. Just like there are some in Texas that ban books due to the objections of Christians, most of which you wouldn't want banned...
The is a very strong reality you attempt to dismiss, and actually seem to support at times. Totalitarians exist on both sides of the aisle. And I don't give a rip if it is "conservative" or "liberal" I give a rip that they are trying to take away personal freedoms.
Post #88
http://newsofthenorth.net/article/Bl...m_Sawyer/83491
Nowhere in the piece does it say who is responsible, or what ideology "they" possess...it's just a "rant".
Post #89
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011...censors-n-word
Here we are back to Dr. Alan Gribben, whom you claim (unsubstantiated) to be a "liberal", though he is at a Southern university in Montgomery Alabama.
So, you, repeating the same nonsense, passed off as facts, doesn't make it any more valid, true, or relevant. You didn't provide any substance to the notion that the publisher or the author were "liberals', only that your belief states that "no conservative could be behind it", because, de facto, they support the principles of the founding fathers, no less. Bull hockey. You insult my intelligence. And I just called you out on in, in open forum.
