Banning the Dictionary

[Ashes of a Global Pariah]

I would have expected something like this in the Bible Belt, not in Southern California. Still, them dictionaries have become mysterious Pandora Boxes of sorts for modern Americans not used to reading.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

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.

They're brilliant for rejecting corporatism.

 

[midcan5]

As a conservative, I look to the Constitution for that answer, and specifically the First amendment.

This is a position that makes little sense today.

http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html

 

[DamnYankee]

This is a position that makes little sense today.

http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html

Explain then why the 1st Amendment allows book banning.

 

[WinterBorn]

http://www.pe.com/localnews/menifee/stories/PE_News_Local_W_sdictionary22.414bdf0.html

After a parent complained about an elementary school student stumbling across "oral sex" in a classroom dictionary, Menifee Union School District officials decided to pull Merriam Webster's 10th edition from all school shelves earlier this week.

I remember, back in the good ol' days, when the dictionary only gave definitions of individual words. It didn't give definitons of phrases.

 

[Thorn]

I remember, back in the good ol' days, when the dictionary only gave definitions of individual words. It didn't give definitons of phrases.

I haven't seen the newest version, but I doubt it gives instructions.

 

[DamnYankee]

For the record, m-w.com merely refers the reader to another definition.

 

[leaningright]

As a conservative and a preacher I think the banning of the dictionary from all levels is stupid. I can sympathize and perhaps agree with the idea of choosing a less complete dictionary for elementary, but for high school, nope. I am not naive enough to think they haven't seen or heard (or participated in) worse by then. If they don't know about some stuff by high school then they are too sheltered, IMO.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

As a conservative and a preacher I think the banning of the dictionary from all levels is stupid. I can sympathize and perhaps agree with the idea of choosing a less complete dictionary for elementary, but for high school, nope. I am not naive enough to think they haven't seen or heard (or participated in) worse by then. If they don't know about some stuff by high school then they are too sheltered, IMO.

My favorite preacher.

 

[Timshel]

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.

ON EDIT:
It appears I misread. They are pulling it from all schools in the District. How stupid can people become?

Our children are much better served by open access to information than some misguided attempt to protect their innocence.

 

[Jarod]

I consider it part of by liberal belife structure to be against censorship and thus the banning of any books for any reason.

Racially insensitive books should be promoted to see how things can and have been.

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

They're brilliant for rejecting corporatism.

why don't you reject it as well and go live in the middle of the atlantic ocean you hypocrite?

 

[Sammy Jankis]

why don't you reject it as well and go live in the middle of the atlantic ocean you hypocrite?

Why don't you eat a monkey testicle, bitchdick.

 

[Jarod]

Has anyone here ever agreed that a book should be banned?

Does anyone here belive in government censorship in any form?

 

[DamnYankee]

Age-inappropriate books shouldn't be in schools. Keep away from the kiddies, you perverts!

 

[WinterBorn]

Age-inappropriate books shouldn't be in schools. Keep away from the kiddies, you perverts!

Do you consider a dictionary to be an "age-inappropriate" book?

 

[DamnYankee]

Depends on the dictionary and the age.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Has anyone here ever agreed that a book should be banned?

Does anyone here belive in government censorship in any form?

In the sense that it prevents child exploitation (Child porn). Otherwise, no.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Ugh, the Conservatives at work.

ironic given that it is quite apparent that your liberal teachers did not allow you anywhere near a dictionary.

it would appear toppys also kept him away from it.

 

[Jarod]

In the sense that it prevents child exploitation (Child porn). Otherwise, no.

That is achually a good point, so even though the Bill of Rights protects freedom of speach completly you belive in reasonable limits?