Posted by
Frigglesnitz on Monday, October 23, 2006 10:31:53 PM
There was a list of banned books in the 9/10/06 Chicago Tribune "Parade" section; it reports that "... The American Library Association says each book below has been pulled from some libraries or schools. You’ll be surprised by the list.... Visit parade.com."
Among the ten books were these five:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – racist language
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – sexually explicit
Little Red Riding Hood – bottle of wine in basket for Grandma
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary – offensive language
To Kill a Mockingbird – offensive language
Banning those books from any public library or school is morally offensive to me.
Who in the name of common sense could possibly choose those five books to be banned? And just incidentally, it seems to me that banning the dictionary is tantamount to banning all books.
When one looks around at some of the "entertainment" on various media, one can conclude only that the person or group making the decision to get these books banned has been looking up too many words in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary -- and finding them!
And they should stop immediately -- they're learning too much. Or they think they are.