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[Agonistes]

One thing i don't get about the whole banning thing. They go and ban Wrinkle in Time for promoting Christianity and then they ban Harry Potter for promoting witchcraft. Either one is promoting anything except proper English. And can they prove that they promote anything?

different groups, schools, etc ban different books for different reasons.  'huckleberry finn' is a good example of a book that was banned simply because the racial realities freaked someone out.

But that teaches kids about history! In order for people to learn from mistakes, they must learn about those mistakes made! Isn't that what people are suppose to in school? Last time i checked kids were suppose to learn!

no, clearly it is far more important to teach kids that if anything is scary or threatening they can just make it go away by denying that it ever happened.

[The Angel Raliel]

oh indeed..during the late 80s and 90s alot of fairytales were rewritten in the UK to be politically correct and everything had to be positive, with no violence or death....lots of screwed up parenting ensued

[Mockery]

One thing i don't get about the whole banning thing. They go and ban Wrinkle in Time for promoting Christianity and then they ban Harry Potter for promoting witchcraft. Either one is promoting anything except proper English. And can they prove that they promote anything?

different groups, schools, etc ban different books for different reasons.  'huckleberry finn' is a good example of a book that was banned simply because the racial realities freaked someone out.

But that teaches kids about history! In order for people to learn from mistakes, they must learn about those mistakes made! Isn't that what people are suppose to in school? Last time i checked kids were suppose to learn!

no, clearly it is far more important to teach kids that if anything is scary or threatening they can just make it go away by denying that it ever happened.

Don't you just love the school system?

[CeeGBee]

oh indeed..during the late 80s and 90s alot of fairytales were rewritten in the UK to be politically correct and everything had to be positive, with no violence or death....lots of screwed up parenting ensued

I have a copy of this:

around here somewhere.....

[Pope Totalfrog]

oh indeed..during the late 80s and 90s alot of fairytales were rewritten in the UK to be politically correct and everything had to be positive, with no violence or death....lots of screwed up parenting ensued

They almost ruined Enid Blyton for me. Luckily I have a contraband stash of 1950's Enid Blyton books. They will have to wrestle them from my cold, dead hands.

[The Angel Raliel]

speaking of Enid Blyton did you get to see the wonderful drama about her?
it starred helena Bonkham Carter as Enid....

[Pope Totalfrog]

speaking of Enid Blyton did you get to see the wonderful drama about her?
it starred helena Bonkham Carter as Enid....

I keep meaning to see it. It looks interesting.

[Mockery]

oh indeed..during the late 80s and 90s alot of fairytales were rewritten in the UK to be politically correct and everything had to be positive, with no violence or death....lots of screwed up parenting ensued

I have a copy of this:

around here somewhere.....

Looks interesting.

When I get a book published, I'm going to see how many time it gets banned.

[The Angel Raliel]

I had an idea for a scifi novel where, in the future, to stop overpopulation, everyone is conditioned to only get sexual desire from specific artificial abstract structures.....the plot involves alot of odd porn and the renegade biosexual acts of a small group and their hunting down by the authorities

[lentower]

I had an idea for a scifi novel where, in the future, to stop overpopulation, everyone is conditioned to only get sexual desire from specific artificial abstract structures.....the plot involves alot of odd porn and the renegade biosexual acts of a small group and their hunting down by the authorities

been done.

several times.

but i suspect your's would be an excellent
addition to the genre

[Mockery]

Quick question: have the Twilight books been banned?

I'm wondering because I would think it be hypocritical of the school system to ban Harry Potter and then allow the badly written, smut fest that is Twilight.

[Agonistes]

oh, im sure somebody's banned it.  isn't r.l. stine banned too?  i'm sure no children's book exists that hasnt been banned at one time or another.


not that twilight's a children's book.  but i'm pretty sure paul zindel's on the list, too.

[Mockery]

Either way, I still don't get it. Children love to be entertained and books can be entertaining and educational but the schools refuse to let kids know about the bad stuff in life because they want everything to be rainbows and sunshine. New flash teachers, that's not how the world works and kids need to learn this sooner or later.

[imaginary friend]

umm, yeah...it's not the teachers who drive this kind of nonsense.

#@!

[Agonistes]

umm, yeah...it's not the teachers who drive this kind of nonsense.

#@!

yeah, it's mainly school boards under pressure from a few rabid parents.