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- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -8/+91what about that book with slavery, hookers, and a random killing that was written a couple thousand years ago?
that seems pretty harmful to kids… - mrzisme, on 05/09/2008, -3/+73Any time a book gets flagged as "banned" I'll be 100 times more likely to find a copy and read it.
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -4/+74Its painful when people grow up and realize everything told to them as children was a lie.. the truth inevitably comes out, no matter how much you try to suppress it.
- Narrwald, on 05/09/2008, -2/+64Didn't these idiots read Fahrenheit 451?
- browwiw, on 05/09/2008, -5/+57Because they don't know what the ***** they are talking about. You don't let people who don't believe in germs run a water filter plant and you don't let anti-intellectuals run the school system.
- ryan83189, on 05/09/2008, -0/+47It was banned at their school.
- masonreloaded, on 05/09/2008, -0/+32The parents decide by exercising responsibility as parents and knowing what your kids are reading, not by banning books so that other parents cannot decide for themselves. I completely agree that if you *truly* find a book objectionable as a parent you should be able to request your child not be mandated to study that book in school - but as far as "banning" them from libraries etc - what right do they have to tell the rest of the school what to read?
- 1337Einstein, on 05/09/2008, -1/+33I like how you say "one day" as if it hadn't already happened.
- str3ama, on 05/09/2008, -4/+32It's the idiocy of authoritative parenting - witholding information and knowledge from children, while all the same not allowing them to learn it on their own. It's this form of parenting where parents censor their children from books considered controversial or once thought to be 'detrimental to the social fabric', books like catcher in the rye and even animal farm. So they stop their kids from reading those books because supposedly they push violence or grandeur ideas, but they have no problem letting their kids watch things like the news which are so horribly sensationalistic in their portrayals of sex, violence or world affairs.
- roboticrickshaw, on 05/09/2008, -2/+27You mean gta the novel??????
- Nhmarine, on 05/09/2008, -2/+24You are an idiot. Not only does watching movies engage the audience with less emotion and less detail, reading helps to expand your mind by making you concentrate on something for more than five seconds.
- WolverineBlue, on 05/09/2008, -2/+24I really hope that 2000 years from now, GTA is a religion.
- browwiw, on 05/09/2008, -3/+25But it's got unicorns *****!
- Zarokima, on 05/09/2008, -3/+24They can "protect" their children all they want. It's when they try to "protect" the rest of the children at the school that any intelligent person has a problem.
- Zarokima, on 05/09/2008, -0/+20Nope, and that's one that they tried to get banned. I remember some news report a while back when a father who admitted to never reading the book wanted it taken out of his child's school, he opened the book and used the word "abortion" -- that's it, just that word -- as justification for banning it.
Also, the movie is less than *****. It evokes nowhere near the emotion of the book, it only loosely conveys some of the major themes and issues while leaving out others entirely, and it's not even very accurate as to the simple happenings. - novastar123, on 05/09/2008, -4/+23History books? How is that particular book a history book?
- threemagic, on 05/09/2008, -3/+21Because it's wrong? I can give you a billion examples where parents make decisions for their kids that horrible. There has to be some checks and balances.
- Versh, on 05/09/2008, -0/+18"Born to Trouble" I think it was called... it premiered in January of 2000.
I still appreciate the irony of censorship though-- people advocate that they ban material in order to prevent the corruption of others, yet they are the only group offended, and such a ban is really meant initially for themselves. It's as if their personal rejection should be a public standard. - CVL4317, on 05/09/2008, -0/+17great, another sign of idiocracy
- MaTT2011, on 05/09/2008, -3/+20Yah, because popping out a kid automatically makes you qualified to run our schools. Plus when you have a kid you instantly, the second they come out of the womb, know how to raise a kid.
Oh wait, thats how retards think. Never mind. - Ryan166, on 05/09/2008, -0/+17Until your mom catches you reading those devil books.
- bloodmoney, on 05/09/2008, -3/+18Please, by all means ban away. My kids will have even more of an advantage.
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -12/+26Christians are always trying to ban things and criminalize people they don't agree with. They ban books and televised shows that disagree with their philosophies. They hate Science and Scientific literature that doesn't say the Earth was created 7 thousand years ago. They demonize sex and are more concerned what goes on in other people's bedrooms than their own. Their leaders molest little children and use the Church's money to defend themselves. They love the Iraq war and try to justify it by adding a touch of Christian missionary work to it. They love their booze and guns just as much as their Bibles. They have the highest divorce and murder rates. They are the world's biggest hypocrites.
Religion has nothing to do with truth and everything to do with self delusion, self denial and the shallow self satisfaction that is attained through such methods. - rdoger6424, on 05/09/2008, -0/+14And so did Niko call Roman for a cab ride, and verily was a cab dispatched. And the cab did arrive on the wrong end of the street. Niko entereth the cab, and Mohammed did call Niko a "head dick".
- acdcfanbill, on 05/09/2008, -1/+14The Calculus is a lie!
- anoneng, on 05/09/2008, -0/+13lets put it this way, when all the violence, action, sex, political opinion/controversy and fun is taken out of books you wind up with a generation that hates reading. When kids are allowed to read dangerous books that make them think, you wind up with a generation that likes to read. Thank God we're so afraid of anything that is offensive to anyone, this way shows like "Rock of Love" or "American Idol" will keep their audiences. You wanna know why tricks like the "gas holiday" work? Because no one knows what the "Ministry of Truth" is or the results of "Brother Love." No one hears anything except politicians sucking up to them for votes and the idiot box telling them how smart the are, while anything with a real story, and not talking about hollywood's ***** movies like Brokeback Mountain (which, from every aspect but the fact that it had gay cowboys and pissed off real cowboys was a terrible film), gets cancelled because people are too dumb to follow it. I'm also mad most best sellers now basically equal the written version of bad television. /rant
- mllawso, on 05/09/2008, -0/+13Give an example of a book banned for that reason.
- inspecality, on 05/09/2008, -0/+13I actually wrote six essays on banning books and such for a Political Science - Censorship class today.
There is a great PBS show about the Huck Finn controversy, one black woman tries to ban it from her daughter's school, and then the show brings in other black people that think the book shouldn't be banned. Really interesting stuff, wish I remembered the name of it. - Narrwald, on 05/09/2008, -2/+14The His Dark Materials trilogy is a darned good "***** childrens book".
- MacintoshSauce, on 05/09/2008, -1/+13It doesn't take much intelligence to spawn children these days.
- str1fe, on 05/09/2008, -1/+12Looking to get a book banned from shelves has nothing to do with parenting. Stopping the book from entering your home is parenting.
- fusama, on 05/09/2008, -0/+11apparently I'm the only one who read that as sarcasm...
- SemiSarcastic, on 05/09/2008, -0/+11These parents complain that their kids are not learning anything in school...well now they're making it happen themselves. These parents will pay dearly for this.
- mrzisme, on 05/09/2008, -0/+10The content of a "banned" book isnt what I find interesting at all, you're right it usually is nothing special, but what I think is interesting is why this content was being supressed in the first place. I'm after why it was banned, and the fact that it was banned, automatically knocks it up 10 notches on my interest meter. When it comes to movies, its abused, everything has a "uncut" "unsensored" "director's cut" tag on it now, especially lame ass comedies that dont even merit the label in their uncut version.
- threemagic, on 05/09/2008, -2/+12@master: no, that's not true either. Don't take an isolated comment and use it as a blanket for how I feel about people who disagree with me. Take it for what it is. A slam on you. You're thinking is incredibly warped and therefore I chose to call it as I see it.
- RickyBarnes1960, on 05/09/2008, -0/+10You most certainly have the individual right to remain ignorant, however, that right does not and never has, never will extend to another human being, most especially a child for whom you serve as guardian. The content of a book cannot harm you and most certainly can benefit you, regardless of your agreement or disagreement with it or the agreement or disagreement of others.
This type of censorship - literary censorship - imposed on children is child abuse and possibly child endangerment. A child left or made ignorant is certainly in danger of colliding with truths both their own and other at some point in time. A child given diverse awareness is far more versed in life and far more equipped to deal with it. Adults who impose censorship on children in this way ought to be kept far from them. - supersquiggly, on 05/09/2008, -0/+10By saying, "hey kid, don't read that book" maybe they'll rebel and actually read a book.
I just picked up a copy of Catcher in the Rye on the weekend for no other reason than its been banned in places. - WraTH017, on 05/09/2008, -2/+12Books are only banned when those doing the banning have something to hide.
Well, maybe not always... One can argue there are some books (ahem) that have caused harm to mankind for centuries. Still, suppressing knowledge or thought, or even *****, helps no one. - miken32, on 05/09/2008, -0/+10It's funny, looking at the list of the most banned books of the 1990's ( http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlink ... ) how many of them I was made to read in school! I wonder does that mean that our school system is being "subversive" or just that those are also the books that the crazies' kids brought home?
Looking through the ALA's intellectual freedom section, it sounds like a lot of librarians are quite activist, so I like to think it's the English teachers and librarians thumbing their noses at the reactionary crazies. - Ryan166, on 05/09/2008, -3/+12Why would they when there is a movie of it?
- Cayfox, on 05/09/2008, -0/+9You may be in for some truly dismal reading - interminable, dreary screeds about Jews being an inferior race, bomb-making recipes that rely on household products that aren't even made anymore, and classic modernist novels that passed for pornography back in the '20s.
- ladyarcher85, on 05/09/2008, -0/+9Reading a book and watching a movie are two different things. In the latter you are just subject to another's interpretation of the said book and a lot of stuff are usually left out.
It also helps you improve your vocabulary and exercise your mind. I certainly find no trouble in reading and I would choose the book over the movie any day. - kh99, on 05/09/2008, -3/+12Yeah, like those parents who protect their children from health care until they're dead.
- negativenancy, on 05/09/2008, -0/+9How can you even begin to fathom the book of Nico when we haven't so much as GLANCED at the book of CJ? What kind of pastor are you?!
- SemiSarcastic, on 05/09/2008, -1/+9Your not making a good case either (if you indeed support these parents in banning these books). You do realize these kids will have to take care of you someday right?
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+9"we will now begin with a passage from the book of nico"
- PopcornDave, on 05/09/2008, -3/+11All groups of people are guilty of trying to impose their belief system, be it religious or otherwise, at one time or another, not just Christians.
- AzureRise, on 05/09/2008, -1/+9No, it was banned.
- str1fe, on 05/09/2008, -0/+8Rationalization is a better word than justification there. Rationalization is basically where you trick yourself into thinking something, justification implies that there is an actual valid reason to have a particular idea.
- threemagic, on 05/09/2008, -4/+12@master: you are either mentally handicapped or a troll... there's no way you are that way normally
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