Banned Book Week

Started by midcan5, September 24, 2022, 07:38:56 AM

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midcan5

When I was young I would have liked a banned book list, something to read. Serious now I've read several of the non-fiction, literature, and drama banned books. Mom was always looking for my 'hidden' books. There may be valid reasons that young children shouldn't read many of the banned books. But many of the reasons hardly matter if they watch TV in America or go to the movies. Sex is always at the top of banned list but teenage boys knew that. Girls you'll have to speak for yourself. The hard question is how much does it matter?  It may matter lots if it makes you think. Do books make bad people? I kinda doubt it, but it may depend on the person. Your thoughts.

https://bannedbooksweek.org/

https://qz.com/book-bans-are-spiking-in-the-us-here-are-the-most-targ-1849565948

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/banned-books/_/N-rtm

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Solar

If it weren't for the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, some of the most popular books ever written may have never made it to their readers. Consider the following books, taken from lists of titles most often "banned" during the last century.* How many have you (or your children) read?

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Forever, by Judy Blume
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Goosebumps (Series), by R.L. Stine
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak
The Stupids (Series), by Harry Allard
Blubber, by Judy Blume
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Deenie, by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Harry Potter (Series), by J.K. Rowling
Cujo, by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl
Ordinary People, by Judith Guest
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Native Son, by Richard Wright
The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline Cooney
Carrie, by Stephen King
The Dead Zone, by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
Private Parts, by Howard Stern
Where's Waldo?, by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Greene
Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
Christine, by Stephen King
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Barack Obama's "Safe Schools Czar" Pushed Books that Encouraged Children to Meet Adults at Gay Bars for Sex

"Safe Schools Czar" Kevin Jennings and his organization GLSEN was encouraging children to meet adults in gay bars for sex.

From our 2010 report:

This story just gets freakier and weirder and the fact that the mainstream media completely ignores this dangerous man working in the Office of Safe and Drug-free Schools makes the story even more scandalous. You'd think the AP could peel away a few of its reporters from Going Rogue to investigate this radical czar. This avoidance by the democratic-media complex won't keep us from reporting the truth. Our goal of protecting children is greater than our desire to protect a political party.

Kevin Jennings' was the founder, and for many years, Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) until he left his post in 2008. GLSEN maintains a recommended reading list of books for children that the radical organization believes all kids should be reading. The books on the list promote all kinds of radical ideas from child rape, to first graders having sex to the joys of prostitution.

Recently it was discovered that these books were not only on GLSEN's reading list but that Kevin Jennings personally promoted several of these books during his career. One of the books he promoted encouraged children to go to gay bars for sex with adults to see if they like it.
Mass Resistance Blog reported:

Jennings had recommended these books himself in his 1994 high school reader Becoming Visible (published by porn publisher Alyson Books). On p. 278 in his Questions/Activities section for Chapter 17, he wrote:

15. Other resources for reading are Bennett Singer's Growing Up Gay, Ann Heron's One Teenager in Ten: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth, Aaron Frick's Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story of Growing Up Gay, and Paul Monette's Becoming a Man. Films include Robert King's The Disco Years and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, based on Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel.

These questionable books (haven't looked at the films yet...) have been described by Linda Harvey in 2002 (also here), NARTH (late 1990s), and more recently at Gateway Pundit/BigGovernment.com (Dec. 2009)...

NARTH reported on One Teenager in Ten:

Some of the Alyson publications, including One Teenager in Ten ...encourage teens to, among other things, go to gay bars and have sex with adults to see if they like it." Further, One Teenager in Ten "contains a lesbian teen's explicit account of her affair with a teacher."

This is proof that Jennings was promoting reading material that encouraged children to go to adult gay bars for sex for over 20 years.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/started-obama-barak-obamas-safe-schools-czar-pushed-books-encouraged-children-meet-adults-gay-bars-sex/
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To the lefties on this forum: will you condemn the banning of books?
With all these lawyers with cameras on the street i'm shocked we have so much crime in the world.

There is constitutional law and there is law and order. This challenge to law and order is always the start to loosing our constitutional rights.

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midcan5

Solar,  I've only read nine from your list. I would bet our granddaughter is way ahead of me as some are more teenage in my humble opinion. lol

No book should be banned but that is happening now in many schools in America.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/19/us/book-ban-movement-pen-america-report-reaj/index.html

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