Yay! Banned Book Week is here!

[thewayne]

And it looks like this web strip may be doing the entire week devoted to it: http://www.gocomics.com/thenewadventuresofqueenvictoria/2010/09/25/

I just started It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, a Nobel Prize winner, published in 1935.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_Books


In December 2001, my closest "big" town of Alamogordo gained some notoriety by having a book burning that started with Harry Potter and grew to include Tolkien and Shakespeare.

Quoth the pastor, "These books teach children how they can get into witchcraft and become a witch, wizard or warlock". Considering the tremendous quantities of these books that have been sold, you'd think we'd have more news stories about witchcraft and wizardry taking place.

The funny thing is that later, the pastor who organized it, was seen leading his children/niece/nephew/whatever out of a movie showing said Harry Potter.

http://www.horrorseek.com/home/halloween/wolfstone/Hatred/brnhry_BurningHarryPotter.html

Comments

[silveradept]

Banned Books Week is the one part of time where people actually pay attention to the fact that there's a widespread movement to hijack school boards, libraries, and other places of learning to force them to promote only a narrow world view by complaining about all the other options until either there's enough plants on the board to achieve it or the board gives in to them just to make them shut the hell up.