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Question: “Banned book week lasts until Oct. 6. Is there ever a time when any book should be banned?”
Answer: no
Bob says - Posted: October 4, 2012
With America slowly becoming a communist country I’m sure the government says YES. My answer – NO! Never heard of Banned Book Week by the way. Sounds like something a Democrat would come up with. And before you complain – I am not a member of the Republican Party either Sheeple.
Tahoe Calm says - Posted: October 4, 2012
Banned book week was started by the American Library Assoc.Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. The 2012 celebration of Banned Books Week will be held from September 30 through October 6. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982. For more information on Banned Books Week, click here. According to the American Library Association, there were 326 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom in 2011, and many more go unreported. The 10 most challenged titles of 2011 were:
ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence
My Mom’s Having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit
What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit
Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Reasons: drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Reasons: offensive language; racism
ljames says - Posted: October 4, 2012
to cristicalthinker55 – so if a book can be banned in any public settings, exactly how are folks supposed to acquire it? Certainly one of the pitfalls of the shift to digital distribution is that the internet can be more easily censored than print.
also interesting is how many of the reasons given to ban a book are because it deals with a topic the book was written to critique, for example Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and To Kill a Mockingbird
Privately No. In every other setting YES.
Question: “Banned book week lasts until Oct. 6. Is there ever a time when any book should be banned?”
Answer: no
With America slowly becoming a communist country I’m sure the government says YES. My answer – NO! Never heard of Banned Book Week by the way. Sounds like something a Democrat would come up with. And before you complain – I am not a member of the Republican Party either Sheeple.
Banned book week was started by the American Library Assoc.Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. The 2012 celebration of Banned Books Week will be held from September 30 through October 6. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982. For more information on Banned Books Week, click here. According to the American Library Association, there were 326 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom in 2011, and many more go unreported. The 10 most challenged titles of 2011 were:
ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence
My Mom’s Having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit
What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit
Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Reasons: drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Reasons: offensive language; racism
to cristicalthinker55 – so if a book can be banned in any public settings, exactly how are folks supposed to acquire it? Certainly one of the pitfalls of the shift to digital distribution is that the internet can be more easily censored than print.
also interesting is how many of the reasons given to ban a book are because it deals with a topic the book was written to critique, for example Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and To Kill a Mockingbird
NO
Maybe the only one that should be banned is whatever book inspired the vast majority of challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom. ~