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Grex > Books > #76: Have You Read Any Banned Books Lately? | |
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bruin
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Have You Read Any Banned Books Lately?
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Sep 30 23:46 UTC 1998 |
I have entered this item to continue the discussion on banned books in Fall
1998 Agora's Announcement item. Hope we can pick up the dialogue on this
subject.
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mcnally
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response 1 of 25:
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Oct 1 05:40 UTC 1998 |
I recently started "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The choice
was coincidental, it had nothing to do with the banned books item in
Agora, it's just one of those great works of American literature that
I've always meant to read (which is not to say that there aren't a
great many "great works of American literature" that I have no intention
of *ever* reading, banned or unbanned.) I like Twain, have read much
of his other work, but somehow never read Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn.
The mania for banning books is one to which America has always been
susceptible. Still, Anthony Comstock would be proud to know that his
spirit is alive and well at the end of the 20th century..
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punky
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response 2 of 25:
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Oct 7 19:50 UTC 1998 |
I feel it is foolishness to ban books.
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omni
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response 3 of 25:
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Oct 8 17:44 UTC 1998 |
Yeah, but try telling that to the PC crowd who wants to save everyone from
themselves. No one enjoys total freedom of the press in this country, and it's
a real shame.
Every banned book is a chink in the armor of our freedom. Take away Huck
Finn one month, next thing you know The Bible is on the banned list, then
we begin burning things, and limiting what can and cannot be posted to the
Internet and places like Grex. Defy the book banners. This is how Hitler got
started.
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kentn
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response 4 of 25:
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Oct 9 03:27 UTC 1998 |
Don't you just want to go out and see what the banning is all about?
In America, at least, banning a book is probably the worst thing you can
do to keep people from reading it, thank goodness. "Congress shall make
no law..." well...city councils, public libraries, and public schools,
aren't Congress, unfortunately. Not that the Constitution stops Congress
from trying to abridge freedom of speech and of the press. They will
not get the point until they themselves can no longer speek freely.
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