Banned Books Week

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I had no idea there was such a thing. Some interesting stuff too.

10 most recent challenged books - I can't believe To Kill a Mockingbird is still on there after all these years!

Stats over the last decade - interesting stats on who started a particular challenge over books.

Classics challenged in the past

[ralgith]

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Seriously? Do they realize that by banning such books they stop education of why these things are bad? I mean christ... the Hunger Games books for example... they show all of those things as being a negative and its a story of overcoming them. Fucking idiots.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Most of the objections come from parents if you looked at any of the stats. My mom never objected to anything I read, even the racy stuff I stole from her.

Parents should worry more about parenting themselves instead of trying to make others do it for them.

[ralgith]

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Most of the objections come from parents if you looked at any of the stats. My mom never objected to anything I read, even the racy stuff I stole from her.

Parents should worry more about parenting themselves instead of trying to make others do it for them.

Agreed, but that wont stop ignorance.

Its the same as people being against violent video games. I'm sorry, but playing a violent video game doesn't make a child violent. Being an un-parented sociopath makes a child violent. From personal experience: Violent video games actually act as a release for violent tendencies, not to increase them.

[LKTraz]

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Same argument for "violent cartoons" when I was a kid. Gee....ya think you should tell your kids that it's a cartoon and you can't do that stuff in real life?

The same ignorant and stupid group of people are the reasons we have dumb warning labels!

We should REQUIRE that these asses read Fahrenheit 451. I doubt though that they would understand it.

[ralgith]

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Same argument for "violent cartoons" when I was a kid. Gee....ya think you should tell your kids that it's a cartoon and you can't do that stuff in real life?

The same ignorant and stupid group of people are the reasons we have dumb warning labels!

We should REQUIRE that these asses read Fahrenheit 451. I doubt though that they would understand it.

Thundercats. GI Joe. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And more of course. And yet, despite those cartoons all taught kids valuable lessons about right and wrong. "Now you know, and knowing is half the battle" spots at the commercial breaks for every episode of GI Joe were great.