We had an interesting happening in the town near where I live. Students from a small Catholic university infiltrated the public library and hid books they did not approve of…at least in two instances a librarian was injured while she tried to prevent this happening. The University demanded that certain books be removed from the shelves. The library staff refused. The town supervisors cut the library funding until the matter was resolved. Fortunately the community protested and the library kept the “questionable” books on the shelves and the funding was reinstated. As Todd noted, there is a difference between a school library and a public library. In my opinion, in a public library no individual should have the right to remove books because of his or her particular views and beliefs.
Yes, no one individual, or individual group, should force the removal (hiding) of books in a public library...but they can, I believe (I am not a lawyer), petition to have certain books not be present, or purchased, by a community library that is funded by the community's taxes.
Anyone want to chime in on this regarding freedom of speech laws? If the federal government is funding a library, they cannot restrain free speech, but if a public library is solely funded from private donations or local taxes, does the community have the right to limit the holdings of that library? I.e., have choices in what the budget to buy new books can buy?
Seems we have a lot of abnormal people figuring out that to lower the average, convince millions more to lower their morals.
On the other hand we have abnormal fanatics that want to bring up the average.
Because of this we have book pusher and book burners.
The world lost a huge amount of ancient history over the multiple burnings of The Library Of Alexandria.
Some abnormal idiots today want to destroy everything except for themselves while getting richer in the process.
Children today shouldn't be pushed into any abnormal and unrepairable decision. Any book or teacher that wishes to do so shouldn't be in a school or school library.
As to knowing about sex, I can honestly remember back to laying on the floor in a doorway of the house at about 3 years old causing women to have to step over me so I could look up their dress. My little brother and other little boys I knew did the same thing. Most women wore dresses in those days.
What we didn't have while growing up was access to free internet porn like children today. I imagine that most children today have seen far more by age 10 than I did by age 20. Children are also tech savvy enough to get around parental controls on phones, tablets, and computers.
Because I grew up on ranches, we saw animal reproduction all the time but still didn't connect that people got babies other than the stork until about the first grade.
In high School we were required to read, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Red Badge Of Courage, and others and do a book report on them.
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer weren't banned then either, like I hear they now are in some schools
Our High School Science teacher left his wife and children ran off with one of the high school girls. He actually had labeled glass jars on the shelf of the science lab of a human fetus month by month. That sure got a ruckus raised when students told about it at home. This was in a country school with less than 100 students in 12 grades.
I can remember the librarian at the public library refusing to allow me to check out a book if she thought my mother would think it was too old for me. Nice lady. At the time I didn’t understand.
At the small library where I volunteer, we have a display of “banned” books. Trying to encourage the young people to read them-1984 and all the rest-while they’re a hot topic. They’re not required reading in school anymore and they should be. Make them think about hard subjects
I have never understood why 1984 would be banned...but it is typically at the top of the list. Too close to home? Wow...if it is, that is pretty telling.
Love it. Yes, little boys are highly sexed, but of course don't have a clue what any of it means. I held onto my penis through the front of my pants for maybe a year when I was little (no recollection of what age...probably 5 or 6)..in public...to my mother's great consternation. All normal (I hope). Freud studied children's fascination with sex and sexual organs extensively, and discovered this was prevalent in early age, disappears for a while (think between 8 and puberty) but then of course returns at puberty. Why? No one knows.
What I am seeing more of these days than a concern for "sexualizing" children too early is the "woke/cancel" culture being terrified that something offensive regarding women, blacks, gays, and any other "different sort of person" will be conveyed in "Huck Finn" or "Green Eggs and Ham" or "Go Dog Go" or any other number of books that may present people, customs, perspectives, views of historical sensibilities, in an "offensive" way thus whitewashing (no pun intended) diversity, historical accuracy, inclusion/exclusion, etc. It is a travesty to be sure.
A very good piece ! On the subject of the trans agenda and the grooming of minors , this I don’t understand relative to the agenda . My only thought is that . “ health “ care / big pharma must be the underlying players , knowing that these folks will need a lifetime of drugs and procedures. Perhaps that is too simplistic.
Anything that forces a wedge into "living as the creatures that God created" is an agenda intention. If you do not believe in a "God" as this statement presents, then replace it with, "living as the creatures nature created"...but that creates a limited, and really unknown, set of criteria (what in God's name DID nature intend for humans?? (pun intended)).
But I think you get the picture. The agenda's first intention is to destroy humanity. Creating a confused, ego driven, transhuman, destruction of love, family, procreation, biological integrity, etc. etc. is part of the agenda's tenets. Read "That Hideous Strength" for some more insight on this "directive."
..."knowing that these folks will need a lifetime of drugs and procedures"...yes, this is a "simple" part of it all, but definitely is a part...this statement is closer to the top of the rabbit hole...go a few notches down into the hole and you will find my above statement...
I sometimes wonder if in our current plunge into a new Dark Age, there will be pockets wherein banned books will be clandestinely kept by those who on the surface appear to uphold the more public agenda, whilst in secret they are preserving all the qualities, values and mores of the resistance agenda. Somewhat like the monasteries did during the Middle Ages with their preservation of classical Greek and Latin philosophers, physicians, astronomers and so on, perhaps we will be hanging on to Victorian novels, dystopian fictions, anything written by Piaget or Freud who both support the notion that children's sexuality is actually dormant until puberty, and so forth. The Name of the Rose will be changed to a more current symbol, like the yin yang or father /mother conspiracy.
I feel no literature at all should be banned publically. As far as community libraries are concerned, maybe the community can have a say regarding what is housed in their physical, on site, facility. The problem with banning anything is that there is no way to know where to place the line between "ok" and "not ok."
Our new Best NAZIONIST Friends from Ukrainistan are Today pretty good at the Art of Book Burning...
We just need to wait and see if they also follow the Tradition of this lovely animal specie... https://postimg.cc/8F8jhD42
I bet they will!
We had an interesting happening in the town near where I live. Students from a small Catholic university infiltrated the public library and hid books they did not approve of…at least in two instances a librarian was injured while she tried to prevent this happening. The University demanded that certain books be removed from the shelves. The library staff refused. The town supervisors cut the library funding until the matter was resolved. Fortunately the community protested and the library kept the “questionable” books on the shelves and the funding was reinstated. As Todd noted, there is a difference between a school library and a public library. In my opinion, in a public library no individual should have the right to remove books because of his or her particular views and beliefs.
Yes, no one individual, or individual group, should force the removal (hiding) of books in a public library...but they can, I believe (I am not a lawyer), petition to have certain books not be present, or purchased, by a community library that is funded by the community's taxes.
Anyone want to chime in on this regarding freedom of speech laws? If the federal government is funding a library, they cannot restrain free speech, but if a public library is solely funded from private donations or local taxes, does the community have the right to limit the holdings of that library? I.e., have choices in what the budget to buy new books can buy?
Seems we have a lot of abnormal people figuring out that to lower the average, convince millions more to lower their morals.
On the other hand we have abnormal fanatics that want to bring up the average.
Because of this we have book pusher and book burners.
The world lost a huge amount of ancient history over the multiple burnings of The Library Of Alexandria.
Some abnormal idiots today want to destroy everything except for themselves while getting richer in the process.
Children today shouldn't be pushed into any abnormal and unrepairable decision. Any book or teacher that wishes to do so shouldn't be in a school or school library.
As to knowing about sex, I can honestly remember back to laying on the floor in a doorway of the house at about 3 years old causing women to have to step over me so I could look up their dress. My little brother and other little boys I knew did the same thing. Most women wore dresses in those days.
What we didn't have while growing up was access to free internet porn like children today. I imagine that most children today have seen far more by age 10 than I did by age 20. Children are also tech savvy enough to get around parental controls on phones, tablets, and computers.
Because I grew up on ranches, we saw animal reproduction all the time but still didn't connect that people got babies other than the stork until about the first grade.
In high School we were required to read, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Red Badge Of Courage, and others and do a book report on them.
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer weren't banned then either, like I hear they now are in some schools
Our High School Science teacher left his wife and children ran off with one of the high school girls. He actually had labeled glass jars on the shelf of the science lab of a human fetus month by month. That sure got a ruckus raised when students told about it at home. This was in a country school with less than 100 students in 12 grades.
Wow. So much there Lol
I can remember the librarian at the public library refusing to allow me to check out a book if she thought my mother would think it was too old for me. Nice lady. At the time I didn’t understand.
At the small library where I volunteer, we have a display of “banned” books. Trying to encourage the young people to read them-1984 and all the rest-while they’re a hot topic. They’re not required reading in school anymore and they should be. Make them think about hard subjects
I have never understood why 1984 would be banned...but it is typically at the top of the list. Too close to home? Wow...if it is, that is pretty telling.
Love it. Yes, little boys are highly sexed, but of course don't have a clue what any of it means. I held onto my penis through the front of my pants for maybe a year when I was little (no recollection of what age...probably 5 or 6)..in public...to my mother's great consternation. All normal (I hope). Freud studied children's fascination with sex and sexual organs extensively, and discovered this was prevalent in early age, disappears for a while (think between 8 and puberty) but then of course returns at puberty. Why? No one knows.
What I am seeing more of these days than a concern for "sexualizing" children too early is the "woke/cancel" culture being terrified that something offensive regarding women, blacks, gays, and any other "different sort of person" will be conveyed in "Huck Finn" or "Green Eggs and Ham" or "Go Dog Go" or any other number of books that may present people, customs, perspectives, views of historical sensibilities, in an "offensive" way thus whitewashing (no pun intended) diversity, historical accuracy, inclusion/exclusion, etc. It is a travesty to be sure.
A very good piece ! On the subject of the trans agenda and the grooming of minors , this I don’t understand relative to the agenda . My only thought is that . “ health “ care / big pharma must be the underlying players , knowing that these folks will need a lifetime of drugs and procedures. Perhaps that is too simplistic.
Anything that forces a wedge into "living as the creatures that God created" is an agenda intention. If you do not believe in a "God" as this statement presents, then replace it with, "living as the creatures nature created"...but that creates a limited, and really unknown, set of criteria (what in God's name DID nature intend for humans?? (pun intended)).
But I think you get the picture. The agenda's first intention is to destroy humanity. Creating a confused, ego driven, transhuman, destruction of love, family, procreation, biological integrity, etc. etc. is part of the agenda's tenets. Read "That Hideous Strength" for some more insight on this "directive."
..."knowing that these folks will need a lifetime of drugs and procedures"...yes, this is a "simple" part of it all, but definitely is a part...this statement is closer to the top of the rabbit hole...go a few notches down into the hole and you will find my above statement...
I sometimes wonder if in our current plunge into a new Dark Age, there will be pockets wherein banned books will be clandestinely kept by those who on the surface appear to uphold the more public agenda, whilst in secret they are preserving all the qualities, values and mores of the resistance agenda. Somewhat like the monasteries did during the Middle Ages with their preservation of classical Greek and Latin philosophers, physicians, astronomers and so on, perhaps we will be hanging on to Victorian novels, dystopian fictions, anything written by Piaget or Freud who both support the notion that children's sexuality is actually dormant until puberty, and so forth. The Name of the Rose will be changed to a more current symbol, like the yin yang or father /mother conspiracy.
I feel no literature at all should be banned publically. As far as community libraries are concerned, maybe the community can have a say regarding what is housed in their physical, on site, facility. The problem with banning anything is that there is no way to know where to place the line between "ok" and "not ok."