It’s not a book ban if the books are available for purchase at any bookstore or Amazon. Parents have a right to protect their kids from graphic content in schools and libraries that they pay taxes for. Do you think it’s a book ban to remove pornography from children’s sections at libraries?
Pornography doesn’t live in children’s sections of the library, Yuri. Stop trolling. Librarians and teachers stock libraries with books to fall in love with.
What about rewriting books to be PC? I think this is a type of ban as well. Roald Dahl books are being changed, which is absurd. And, I don't believe in banning books but do not agree schools should carry certain books. Public libraries are ok but not school libraries. Public schools, in my opinion, should not teach how to give bjs or discuss anal plugs. At least not until math, English, and science scores are up- jk, not even then.
As a parent I have no issue with another parent deciding what their child does and doesn’t read but these same parents don’t get to make that choice for my kids. The people banning books have a world view different from mine and that’s OK, it’s a free country. I don’t share their view of the world. Far better to sit down with your kids and read a book together and discuss why you think it’s good or vile or evil. We best prepare our kids by educating them and sharing our values not banning anything objectionable. They will see it eventually and then will have to figure it out without a parent’s guidance. I’m lucky as my children are now adults who can read what they want whenever they want.
If people really want to help their children, teach them to be kind, accepting, and tolerant of people different than themselves. It’s a better use of everyone’s time and leads to a better world.
The separation of church and state has nothing to do with what you are implying. The first amendment prevents GOVERNMENT from infringing on our right to to teach the Bible in school.
Some books absolutely make kids uncomfortable. I refused to finish many in my own schooling because of it. Fictional nonsense of the modern era that has no functional place in the learning community OTHER THAN PUSHING A LEFTIST AGENDA.
You see, by not removing the filth, you cater to the lowest common denominator.
If you want to subject your progeny to trans ideology and twerking pedophiles in the classroom well I guess that's on you to take up the fight at your city council. Good luck.
This issue should be widened to include the censorship of “misinformation”—which is currently a favorite topic of the Democrats. During the pandemic, under Biden’s administration, thousands of doctors and scientists were censored or shadow banned because their views did not match the government narrative. Many of their views later turned out to be true. Who decides what is “misinformation”? Tim Walz says misinformation is not covered by the First Amendment. Actually it is, in a free society. Remember when Vioxx was safe and effective? Later it was linked to thousands of deaths.
Plenty of poorly supported claims were circulating during the covid pandemic, including here in the UK, where we are having a public inquiry into the whole episode. They turned out NOT to be true: death rates were collossally higher among unvaccinated people, for example. Many of them could not even in principle have been true - for example, the idea that the vaccines were linked to some medically impossible means of controlling people. This sort of stuff used to be confined to schizophrenia wards, but since the advent of social media every crazy person can find an audience.
If some medical practitioners raised doubts, they should have used proper scientific evidence, but medical practitioners are not trained scientists. Not so long ago some of them were maintaining that smoking was good for the lungs!
Anyone who has met a rebellious youth (any youth really) will know that banning something makes it irresistible, so it’s an extremely counterproductive practice.
Excellent point about the libertarians expounding on freedom - except when it comes to your rights to read what you want, love who you want, do what you want with your own body…
I love this! Everything you wrote was something I’ve said to myself many times. For me banning books closes minds and minds should always try darn hard to stay open. As a parent I was able to stay on top of what my kids saw most of the time whether it was in books or on screens, occasionally a few got past my scrutiny, but even then when it did we discussed it openly once I found out. They changed a lot of what we discussed after attending University, and even then we had friendly discourse. Thanks for letting me know I’m not alone on an island!
One of my books was banned. In UK prisons. Yes, you read that right. Prisons. Was it a manual on how to escape, or maybe how to make weapons from everyday objects? No, it was a psychology book. Why was it banned? I had been questioning the practices of some psychologists who thought they were helping to reform prisoners. Based on good scientific evidence, I raised the serious possibility that they were actually making them worse. The prison psychologists reacted nastily, and tried a number of ways to end my career, but the regulator had more sense than they did.
Eventually, after about 9 years, the UK government did its own research and found the programs WERE indeed making prisoners more risky. After only a further 5 years, they dropped the programs in question. I published the book the following year. Apparently, someone thought it might subvert the prison authorities. In fact, bootleg copies began circulating, so it probably didn't work.
An apology would be nice, but maybe that's hoping for too much. At least it turned out my criticisms were wholly justified. It's just sad that so many "extra" offences were committed (mostly against children) before they listened to the evidence.
I was fortunate enough to grow up in a household where we could read what we wanted. No bans on books and I grew up just fine. Better than fine, actually. (Most days, anyway) I do not restrict my kids from reading what they want. How can I? I was allowed to read IT at 13. And then no one stopped me from reading Piers Anthony’s Firefly at 16 either, among other titles that weren’t deemed YA.
I admit that I can do better by showing up and speaking up where books are being banned (especially here and Florida) And I’ll continue to buy banned books too. 💕 Thank you for the reminder of the importance of speaking up.
Who are these "they" who are banning books? Like the one person who complained so a book is banned from one library? But can't these books be gotten elsewhere? I remember growing up as a card-carrying Catholic - now in recovery (thank God!) - knowing about the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum and Arthur Miller's "Tropics," and as recently as 1960 an Oklahoma teacher was fired for teaching "The Catcher in the Rye" to 11th graders. I'm with you completely - no banning but education in the home so kids can make sensible choices about what to put into their brains. BTW, Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation" I believe is spot-on. Even my granddaughter will admit to me that her brain is different from mine (besides being smarter and newer).
It’s not a book ban if the books are available for purchase at any bookstore or Amazon. Parents have a right to protect their kids from graphic content in schools and libraries that they pay taxes for. Do you think it’s a book ban to remove pornography from children’s sections at libraries?
Pornography doesn’t live in children’s sections of the library, Yuri. Stop trolling. Librarians and teachers stock libraries with books to fall in love with.
That is a weak, glib, and empty argument, Yuri. When was the last time you were in a school library and saw pornography on the shelves?
No, scratch that. Every school will have copies of the Bible available. You ever read that thing cover to cover?
This is the question we all want answered
Sorry fag. Under no circumstances are you going to convince me that a kid needs to read a book about how to properly blow a dude or insert a buttplug.
What about rewriting books to be PC? I think this is a type of ban as well. Roald Dahl books are being changed, which is absurd. And, I don't believe in banning books but do not agree schools should carry certain books. Public libraries are ok but not school libraries. Public schools, in my opinion, should not teach how to give bjs or discuss anal plugs. At least not until math, English, and science scores are up- jk, not even then.
But they don’t.
As a parent I have no issue with another parent deciding what their child does and doesn’t read but these same parents don’t get to make that choice for my kids. The people banning books have a world view different from mine and that’s OK, it’s a free country. I don’t share their view of the world. Far better to sit down with your kids and read a book together and discuss why you think it’s good or vile or evil. We best prepare our kids by educating them and sharing our values not banning anything objectionable. They will see it eventually and then will have to figure it out without a parent’s guidance. I’m lucky as my children are now adults who can read what they want whenever they want.
If people really want to help their children, teach them to be kind, accepting, and tolerant of people different than themselves. It’s a better use of everyone’s time and leads to a better world.
We need to reintroduce the Bible to the classroom. It would fix a lot of this.
Ever heard of separation of church and state? Your bible is not mine. Keep your religion to yourself.
The separation of church and state has nothing to do with what you are implying. The first amendment prevents GOVERNMENT from infringing on our right to to teach the Bible in school.
Some books absolutely make kids uncomfortable. I refused to finish many in my own schooling because of it. Fictional nonsense of the modern era that has no functional place in the learning community OTHER THAN PUSHING A LEFTIST AGENDA.
You see, by not removing the filth, you cater to the lowest common denominator.
If you want to subject your progeny to trans ideology and twerking pedophiles in the classroom well I guess that's on you to take up the fight at your city council. Good luck.
This issue should be widened to include the censorship of “misinformation”—which is currently a favorite topic of the Democrats. During the pandemic, under Biden’s administration, thousands of doctors and scientists were censored or shadow banned because their views did not match the government narrative. Many of their views later turned out to be true. Who decides what is “misinformation”? Tim Walz says misinformation is not covered by the First Amendment. Actually it is, in a free society. Remember when Vioxx was safe and effective? Later it was linked to thousands of deaths.
Plenty of poorly supported claims were circulating during the covid pandemic, including here in the UK, where we are having a public inquiry into the whole episode. They turned out NOT to be true: death rates were collossally higher among unvaccinated people, for example. Many of them could not even in principle have been true - for example, the idea that the vaccines were linked to some medically impossible means of controlling people. This sort of stuff used to be confined to schizophrenia wards, but since the advent of social media every crazy person can find an audience.
If some medical practitioners raised doubts, they should have used proper scientific evidence, but medical practitioners are not trained scientists. Not so long ago some of them were maintaining that smoking was good for the lungs!
Anyone who has met a rebellious youth (any youth really) will know that banning something makes it irresistible, so it’s an extremely counterproductive practice.
Excellent point about the libertarians expounding on freedom - except when it comes to your rights to read what you want, love who you want, do what you want with your own body…
Part of the insanity includes a disclaimer on a movie like Gone with the Wind ...
I love this! Everything you wrote was something I’ve said to myself many times. For me banning books closes minds and minds should always try darn hard to stay open. As a parent I was able to stay on top of what my kids saw most of the time whether it was in books or on screens, occasionally a few got past my scrutiny, but even then when it did we discussed it openly once I found out. They changed a lot of what we discussed after attending University, and even then we had friendly discourse. Thanks for letting me know I’m not alone on an island!
One of my books was banned. In UK prisons. Yes, you read that right. Prisons. Was it a manual on how to escape, or maybe how to make weapons from everyday objects? No, it was a psychology book. Why was it banned? I had been questioning the practices of some psychologists who thought they were helping to reform prisoners. Based on good scientific evidence, I raised the serious possibility that they were actually making them worse. The prison psychologists reacted nastily, and tried a number of ways to end my career, but the regulator had more sense than they did.
Eventually, after about 9 years, the UK government did its own research and found the programs WERE indeed making prisoners more risky. After only a further 5 years, they dropped the programs in question. I published the book the following year. Apparently, someone thought it might subvert the prison authorities. In fact, bootleg copies began circulating, so it probably didn't work.
An apology would be nice, but maybe that's hoping for too much. At least it turned out my criticisms were wholly justified. It's just sad that so many "extra" offences were committed (mostly against children) before they listened to the evidence.
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I was fortunate enough to grow up in a household where we could read what we wanted. No bans on books and I grew up just fine. Better than fine, actually. (Most days, anyway) I do not restrict my kids from reading what they want. How can I? I was allowed to read IT at 13. And then no one stopped me from reading Piers Anthony’s Firefly at 16 either, among other titles that weren’t deemed YA.
I admit that I can do better by showing up and speaking up where books are being banned (especially here and Florida) And I’ll continue to buy banned books too. 💕 Thank you for the reminder of the importance of speaking up.
Who are these "they" who are banning books? Like the one person who complained so a book is banned from one library? But can't these books be gotten elsewhere? I remember growing up as a card-carrying Catholic - now in recovery (thank God!) - knowing about the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum and Arthur Miller's "Tropics," and as recently as 1960 an Oklahoma teacher was fired for teaching "The Catcher in the Rye" to 11th graders. I'm with you completely - no banning but education in the home so kids can make sensible choices about what to put into their brains. BTW, Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation" I believe is spot-on. Even my granddaughter will admit to me that her brain is different from mine (besides being smarter and newer).
A thoughtful post -- thanks!
They want to protect their kids. But the most pressing danger to their kids...is themselves. :(
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