I was a school librarian for 15 years and the most ridiculous book ban I EVER saw was the banning of "The Handbook of Cats." Yes, the one that teaches kids how to raise a cat! One parent had a problem with a small black-and-white photo of a cat having kittens. She said, "I don't want my child to know that yet." So, an entire very large school district ended up bowing to this ridiculous woman who should have just told her child not to check out that book.
I've come to realize as a parent myself that my thoughts and opinions extend to my child and not any one else's. I'm sorry that other parents haven't reached the same conclusion.
@John Mateus you missed my point. Should there be porn available to kids? Of course not, it's literally illegal so that goes without saying. Call me conservative bordering on Libertarian. I don't think my personal beliefs should impose on anyone else's beliefs. Whether political, religious, cultural, or anything else. I believe that no one else should impose on my beliefs either. Fair? If you don't like something, then go somewhere else, or in this case don't read the offensive book. 🙄
The ironic part about the Captain Underpants ban is that at one part in the series it's revealed that there are no books in the library because the librarian banned them all.
A few parents asked about how to get a book banned when I was a school librarian and our district had a process in place to consider a banning. First, the parent got a form to fill out, had to read the book, and then complete the form with details about what was objectionable in the book. I never had a parent get past receiving the form. Most of them had not ever read the book they objected to- like Goosebumps, Harry Potter, etc.
Now this is a great idea. If they want to ban stuff they should have to read it, and write a 20 page essay on why it should be banned. Providing no less than 10 reasons with specific references from said book! 😏 They'd give up as soon as they heard the word "essay" 🤣
Literally though. I likely never would have read Ulysses, 13 Reasons Why, or Call Me By Your Name if it wasn't for conservative parents at my high school flipping out over them :D
When my kids were young, I did this weird thing where if they wanted to read a book, especially if it was rumored to be inappropriate for their ages, I would read the book first and decide for myself whether it was appropriate for my kids. 😮 INCONCEIVABLE!
except parents aren't allowed in sth school libraries and they have books showing butt plugs and oral sex. Is this the censrship people protect while the governments are censoring everything we only protect books showing sexually explicit imagery to kids? why are other censorship concerns ignored? Does anybody realize sth grasp of cooovid censorship? I'm afraid to write th word there was so much censorship.. but people want to protect schools showing porn to kids. tehy don't mid we're losing free speech due to phobia accusations. They just want kids to be able to see porn in schools.
The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger was banned in my grade school when I was young, notice how popular these books become AFTER they are banned, it had the same effect. In fact kids who didn't care about that book had to get a copy to see what all of the fuss was about, kids will always be curious! BTW, reading that book didn't inspire new juvenile delinquents as feared, lol.
that's what culturaaal Marxism is. They complain and complain until people cancel, ban or push censorship. It's maoism which is basically using identity politics to cause division and hate while declaring victimhood.. I misspelled the word cultural because censors call the term anti semitic which is an authoritarian trick. Call everything you want to ban racist or sexist... or some other phobia.
The ban on Winnie The Pooh in China is the most ridiculous! Being compared to a cute, cuddly teddy bear is the highest compliment one can receive. Ironically, some Disney Pooh merch is made in China.
I think One of the dumbest ban books ever was the one happened in Chile. At Pinochet's dictatorship, they burned Cubism art books because "military goverment" thought they are from Cuba and "Cubism = Cuba = Communism" 😂
When I was running a Montessori school library, the principal asked if we should remove the Harry Potter books. After processing that my career in libraries had already reached THAT point, I very steadily explained WHY the books should stay, i.e. good defeating evil, power of love, etc. It wasn't a religious school, FFS. And I'd be the one to deal with the backlash from the students if we took the HP books away. That was NOT going to happen.
It is and so is Huck Finn. A lot of books with strong racial themes using racial language including that one peculiar word are being pushed on because we don't want students to feel uncomfortable.
I have read To Kill A Mockingbird. Although I don't like the N-word I fully understood that that was how people talked in that time period in the deep south.
ALL book bans are ridiculous! Censoring books only makes kids more determined to get their hands on them. If you don't like it, don't read it. It's that simple.
Right. Kids should be able to read the anarchist cookbook, 120 days of Sodom and have access to playboy. Not everything out there needs to be readily available.
@@trnguy6137 - Your comment reminded me of a an old 1960 movie called The Time Machine. The guy goes 3,000 years into the future and no one knows what books are. Not only that, people do not know anything. One scene shows a girl drowning in a creek and everybody just sits there and watches (that in itself is almost like people today with cellphones making a video from someone dying)
The library in my hometown sold some of the earlier editions of their books, and one of them I bought was Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume. That is such a great book!
That is a great book Margaret is searching for God how is that bad and the Wizard of Oz that woman saying its not true to real life well duh its called Fantasy lady LOL
@@aprilgosa5779 The rationale for banning books is probably more of an opinion based on personal views than anything reasonable. The Little House on The Prairie books have received a lot of criticism recently.
To me the Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout poem teaches you the importance of not putting off chores like taking out the garbage because it would lead to a big mess.
I still have my kids' collection of Captain Underpants, Dr Seuss, Where the Wild Things Are, Harry Potter, assorted fairy tale books and many others. Odd that even after reading all those, they still turned out to be good humans.
@John Mateus By that logic, tye Bible should be banned due to the amount of pornography in it like what Lot and his daughters do after Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed by burning sulfur, how "spilling one's seed" originated and became a crime, and the entire Song of Songs which describe a woman's body in unflattering detail...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 does it explain to kids with pictures how to pleasure your classmate? Because some books at some schools do. By that logic let’s teach the Bible in schools.
It wasn’t long ago several snowflake leftists went on tv trying to prevent WWII being taught because it made them feel uncomfortable, also they hated labels, now you have to call them by those they choose or you get a mob of lunatics after you.
I think what was going on in 1950's America vs. Soviet Union did probably seem like the Spiderman meeting Spiderman meme. They were both heavy on censorship in those times
As a sixth grade teacher back in the ‘90’s and early 2000’s, the students were required to have a note from parents in order to read library copies of the Harry Potter series. I often wondered how many parent notes were forgeries. 😅
Almost every religious person hated J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter books for “promoting witchcraft.” Now they love her for her controversial comments on the trans community.
I was going to mention the Chinese ban on Alice in Wonderland, but you beat me to it! IIRC there were also bans in that country on Dr. Seuss books for a similar reason. I believe it went against certain Confucian morals/teachings, specifically animals behaving in a manner similar to humans (walking on two legs and talking in human speech). Something about blurring the line. I used to be a library assistant, and doing the banned book display in October was always a treat. ^^
Too much Social Media influences creates frantic and paranoia behaviors towards books. They are just lacking reading comprehension and deep understanding of the narrations.
social media is very censored. Why accept the censorship on social media? @@minchi_the_aoigirl we won't have dangerous books written any more because they are censored before ever being accepted. in Ontario canada our public library had a public book burn ing. Harry Potter books were some of the first burned. Any book that was considered was burned but they couldn't burn them all. Over 3000 books were chosen. Our government has algorithmic control of the whole canadian internet and funds the media. Censorship is canadian now.
My love of theater stemmed from watching the play Alice in Wonderland with my elementary school class at a nearby school. It was such a ground-shaking performance that the troupe was asked to come back and we went to see it as a class again! Our elementary school also performed The Wizard of Oz for the spring play, I remember singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow as a group.
I wonder if schools even do plays anymore. As a kid born 1962, those days I even performed in many school play. My son born 1989 even performed in school plays as Santa Clause in the 1990s. However, I did have much younger children that went to elementary and high school during the 2008 and final year 2020. I noticed a big change in schools since the 1990s. I dont think they do school plays anymore. Too bad.
@@nazfan01 I live in village in Nebraka, and they still do school plays here. My brother lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, and they do not have school plays (likely because of the difficulty of coordination for that many students).
@@nazfan01 I was Santa Clause and the main actor for the Christmas school play the school year I graduated elementary school, as was my younger brother two years later. I have actually been Santa Clause the last two years of the Christmas program (and my father was before that), but it is a music program without a play. The kids ask me what they want for Christmas after the program.
Loved the video BUT you forgot to mention Uncle Tom's Cabin. That got banned in my school district for 6 months in the schools and the PTA tried to get it banned from the public libraries as well. But they had no objections to the, um,"spicy" novel Wifey ?
@John Mateus Those sorts of books are restricted to people who are 18 or older, so I see no need to ban them, adults can read what they want, even if it is not very nice. Books that promote Nazism are examples of literature that could be harmful, but it is up to us as responsible adults to realise that nazism is bad. Overall, book-bans sets a bad precedent, even if some books suck hard.
@@deteon1418 you might want to check out some videos of parents reading the filth schools allow little kids to read. They come with explicit images too btw. Welcome to reality under the Left.
I’m currently rereading one of my favorite books of all time, Fahrenheit 451, for the umpteenth time and it’s disturbing how much it resonates even 70 years after it was written. I’m in college to become a librarian and I honestly hope I have the opportunity to have a showdown with anyone who believes books should be banned.
My dad never went to complain and try to ban books, but he had some minor complaints about Captain Underpants and Matilda. Captain Underpants because it encouraged my brother’s weird obsession with toilet humor. Matilda because it said that kids can punish their parents if their parents were bad. Of course we owned a copy of each. He never let his dislike for a book stop us from reading it.
@@92RKID If you like crazy stories of new love, then you will like it! Turgenev was actually the first Russian author to be popular in the West (first also to be widely translated).
I'm surprised the book I read as a kid - "From the Mixed up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler" wasn't included because of it glamorizing runaway children! Haha!
@@jons.6216 It has been a long time since I have read the book...but wasn't there a part where one of the kids was hungry and said they felt like an empty tube of toothpaste?
The Harry Potter ban was actually why my family got into them :P my older brother and i were home schooled at the time, and my mom wanted to rebel from what the home schooling teachers of the area :P 20 ish years later, im a proud hufflepuff and shes and proud snape lover :P
My neighbors were a Baptist pastor and his wife. Their 14 year old daughter at the time used to hang out with my (step)daughter and they would read Harry Potter at my house because she didn't want her parents to know lol
Goosbumps was the big stink when I was growing up. My mother once saw a woman at a local book store asking the owner not to sell any of the books. She speculated that she'd never read any of them.
In my teens I read Catch 22, The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight, and was told by an older relative that I shouldn’t read books like that. I had also read the first four books by John Norman, the “Chronicles of Gor” series. She bought me the next four books. She had obviously not read these. I didn’t enjoy the later books by Norman, due to the misogyny and glorification of slavery. Also, in Burroughs novels, Tarzan and Jane were married. It’s the movies that depicted them as an unwed couple, with an adopted son.
Well, yeah, it’s mainly the Johnny Weissmuller films where an in name only Tarzan and a much different Jane (Jane Parker) were still just a boyfriend and girlfriend with an adopted son.
Nice to know that what’s going on in schools now, has been going on since the 1600’s! I wonder if the ones who banned the books back then, hadn’t read them either….
As a child, adolescent, I read all the books in the children's library by the time I was fourteen which includes all of The wizard of Oz. Most people are not aware that the wizard of Oz is a large series of books. Although I don't remember much now the characters still I do remember.
All book bans are insane. My local library had a basement with children's books and the upstairs were "adult" books. You couldn't check out books from the adult section until you were in high school. I had read all the books downstairs I was interested in and had checked out the upstairs books. (It was the sci-fi section that was most interesting.) My mom would go with me and check out the books I wanted on her card. She told me that when she was young, the extent of okay books for her were similar to ones written by Elsie Dinsmore. I read one, they were bloody awful. Mom said she managed to read Edgar Rice Burroughs books - including Tarzan - because the librarian hadn't read them. If the librarian had known about Jane being held against Tarzan's manly chest, they would have been banned. I always thought as many books as you can get a kid to read was the right number and kinds of books.
What are you talking about? Elsie Dinsmore was a character in a book, not a living person and she certainly didn't write any books. In the books she is a 10-year old little girl. There are 25 volumes in the series!!
in Ontario canada our public library had a public book burn ing. Harry Potter books were some of the first burned. Any book that was considered was burned but they couldn't burn them all. Over 3000 books were chosen. Our government has algorithmic control of the whole canadian internet and funds the media. Censorship is canadian now.
@@gaywizard2000 I hate that shit! My nick name is “King David” ( for real! 😅) and art is akin to our gift of language and a way to express and explore the inner self. People must accept the sweet and the sour in the banquet of life. But David is beautiful! ❤️ (And also, art is a way to look back upon history so that we may learn from lessons of the past.)
@@azazel166 I am a Canadian so I can't vote DeSantis out! But I have a degree in Sculpture and have always fought against Censorship and the fascist inclinations of small men! (Literally in this case)!
@@andreshernandez1180 but maybe shouldn't people and parents have the right to decide what is it okay for the kids and what is on I read whatever I wanted my mother never told me what I could or couldn't read
@@lizzybearstar1661 yes, parents should have the right to decide, which is what the Left doesn’t want, they want teachers to decide what kids learn, read and do, they encourage keeping secrets from parents. Check out videos of parents reading their own filthy books to board members, they go nuts, the same books kids can read every day. Sickening.
I guess banning _Charlotte's Web_ would be considered to be a case of arachnophobia. As far as religious leaders banning books because they feature talking animals, their holy book features a talking snake.
I'm still of the opinion that banning a book criticizing censorship in general and book bans in particular is ridiculous. I was dealing with a troubled adolescent a few years back and realized that I had never read Fahrenheit 451 so I decided to challenge him to read it and I would too. Unfortunately we only got halfway before all my attempts fell through. But I think we got some good conversations out of what we did read.
@John Mateus In my opinion, the written word should never be banned. That runs the gamut from Mein Kampf to the communist manifesto. Trying to ban pornography is a waste of time, since any 12 year old with half a brain and a cell phone, can bring up any image here she would like.
@@wunderkind-7724 the conservatives aren't trying to ban any ebook, just take them out of liveries. You think we should teach his about butt plugs and show oral sex illustrations in schools? Why on the schools? in Ontario canada our public library had a public book burn ing. Harry Potter books were some of the first burned. Any book that was considered was burned but they couldn't burn them all. Over 3000 books were chosen. Our government has algorithmic control of the whole canadian internet and funds the media. Censorship is canadian now.
History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It's not yours to erase or destroy.
Wait! But Tarzan and Jane were married in the books. It’s only in the first few Weismuller films that they were living together unmarried. Did they just not read the books and based the ban on the movies?
this is old. Leftists are banning books now, not he conservatives. I don't like either side banning but he left is pro censorship through accusations of phobias. That's how they ban. they only protect books in school libraries that are sexiually explicit. These books aren't even banned. You can still but them. Parents just don't want weird brainwashing and peedeo teachers.
As a big fan of historical fiction, banning a book due to the depiction of wine is quite odd to me. I mean, it was pretty dangerous to consume water during many parts of history, meaning many children's books depict the consumption of alcohol. So, if they would like to band the depiction of it, they would have to take out a pretty large part of a school library.
Well, when I was a child in the 1970s, they banned Old Yeller because it had the word b****. And it was the actual dictionary definition. Yet, Huckleberry Finn was free to read just years removed from the Civil Rights era.
Huck Finn is pretty good representation of pre Civil War life in the south. I’ve never understood peoples objections to it. The main plot is that Huck builds a real relationship with Jim, and in the end has more respect for Jim, than he has for his drunken, layabout, child abusing father.
lol this dolt is a true crime fan & thinks dems are different from .. "maga republicans" .. is what she copy/pastes in every thread. True crime fan doesn't read _TRUE_ Crime obviously.
@@lizzybearstar1661 your whining is not valid, check out some videos on parents reading to board members the filth they allow in their schools, it’s just evil, the board members tell parents not to read it because it’s inappropriate, yet there it is for kids to access. You’ve been lost somewhere, time to catch up.
5:06 The first Harry Potter book was released in the U.S. in September of 1998, at the same time I was starting classes as a freshman at Doane University. In reference to the owl, the Doane Owl is the oldest college newspaper in the state of Nebraska.
Yeah, the last chapter or so of _The Return of Tarzan._ Haven't read it in years, but they utterly legally married alright. You know the banners were just going off of the Weissmuller movies.
Yup. The Weissmuller to Scott Tarzan films are basically peak camp straight. No wonder why the Disney films and show have both Tarzan and Jane married like in the books.
I remember the churches here, the Catholic church in particular, wanting to ban the book "The Da Vinci Code" because the contents were "blasphemous" and all but ironically, I found and read a copy of it in the library of a very Catholic, priest-run university that I went to during college.
I didn’t know that a ban attempt for Fahrenheit 451 came from my own damn Texas county 💀 that’s hilariously disappointing. I’m glad I did get assigned the book as summer reading one year tho!
Parents of schoolchildren: Let’s ban these harmless children’s books where the animals are talking a human language. Also those parents: Ive never heard of ‘Animal Farm’
@@cerebrumexcrement Not really animals that spoke for themselves. Satan possessed the snake so he could get into the garden of Eden. And God had the donkey talk. - But this is silly, because how about Bugs Bunny and every other animated animal that talked over the years.
Leftists are pro censorship but they only defend free speech when it comes rot showing sexually explicit books that aren't banned to little children. The books aren't banned. You can still buy them.
so you'd be okay with the bible being taught at school? That was banned in schools. are you against that?@@cerebrumexcrement Is it only the sex books for kids you protect? These books aren't banned. Parents can buy them for their kids.
"So which book ban do you think was the most ridiculous?" What I think isn't the point. There are people to whom NONE of this is ridiculous. And that's where we're headed...
In Genesis, Adam and Eve were naked and they were not ashamed, so shouldn't the Bible be banned for depicting nudity? And there's also that incident with Lot and his daughters...I could go on.
in Ontario canada our public library had a public book burn ing. Harry Potter books were some of the first burned. Any book that was considered was burned but they couldn't burn them all. Over 3000 books were chosen. Our government has algorithmic control of the whole canadian internet and funds the media. Censorship is leftist now. YOu only protect books that aren't banned but just taken our t of children's school libraries. To you that's the same as a ban. You ignore the banning and censoring the left is doing. Tribal.
I remember my 8th grade English teacher let us read go ask Alice. She bought those books with her own money and said if anyone from admin came in to hide the book. She said that book was important for young teens being pressured into drug use and the aftermath! She told us how she lost friends like Alice lost herself in the book. Till this day I have the copy she gave me…she made us do a reflection book report after we read the book…she then took those book reports to the DOE and it got the book unbanned in our middle school…what bible thumpers and helicopter parents try to censor literature to protect it does the opposite…not having any insight and being controlled can make the children they are trying to protect end up like Alice in the book…up
@John Mateus clearly you've never set foot in a library. if you had, you would know libraries do not have it. even if they did, it's no business of yours to dictate what others do. keep your christo-fascist backwater fairy tales to yourself.
just because a book isn't allowed in a childrens' library , it doesn't mean it's banned. Calling them based is dishonest framing. In canada our government has algotrythmic control of the internet. They also fund almost all media. They censor a lot. We've literally had libraries burn books publicly . 3000 books were burned ant an ontario library because they weren't politically correct. THta;'s okay though because it bans non p.c. thought? What's wrong with people here ? they allow and are for censorship but protect sex books for children? they aren't even banned! Lost of books aren't allowed in children's libraries. If you want to intentionally be dishonest call them banned.
The most ridiculous ban was against " Lady Chatterley's Lover " by D H Lawrence both here in the U.K. and in the U.S.A. It was banned between 1929 and 1959 throughout the whole of the U.S.A. and 1929 to 1960 throughout the U.K. The reason was because of the language especially with the use of four-letter words and its honest depiction of sex as well as a reference to anal intercourse. Of course, as we all know, sex didn't exist in those days or at any other time throughout the whole of human history therefore it couldn't be honestly written about by anyone, could it? What's really funny is that when the ban was lifted in the U.K. in 1960 the queues to purchase it were unimaginable and it went straight to the top of the best seller list.
funny that the left are now the censors. They are [pro censorship now. the only thing they protect is sexually explicit books f or little kids. Conservatives want them not banned but just not read to their kids. Leftists call this a book ban while they ban everything due to [phobia accusations. everything is banned now by leftists but we hear the right are sth ones doing it because they don't want adults reading to them about butt plugs. THat's censorship to the modern left.
We had one copy at school where it fell open at the 'dirty' bits that we all read. Personally I never thought the book was very good apart from those bits!
Irony is the fact that those who make a big hoopla about banning a particular book are actually giving it free advertisement and making it even more intriguing for people to read it.
Alvin Schwartz’s “Scary Stories to tell in the Dark”, Madeleine L'Engle’s “the Time Quintet” (a Wrinkle in Time) and Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” (the Golden Compass)
I thought the Charlotte’s Web ban was the most ridiculous ban. Being a Christian myself, there is nothing blasphemous about talking animals. The people who were protesting the book must’ve forgotten about Numbers 22 in the Bible, where God opens a donkey’s mouth, and it starts speaking
Also, kids are no longer interested in reading now plainly because adults limit their choices and have them read the ones given by their teachers to write papers on.
I was a school librarian for 15 years and the most ridiculous book ban I EVER saw was the banning of "The Handbook of Cats." Yes, the one that teaches kids how to raise a cat! One parent had a problem with a small black-and-white photo of a cat having kittens. She said, "I don't want my child to know that yet." So, an entire very large school district ended up bowing to this ridiculous woman who should have just told her child not to check out that book.
I've come to realize as a parent myself that my thoughts and opinions extend to my child and not any one else's. I'm sorry that other parents haven't reached the same conclusion.
@John Mateus you missed my point. Should there be porn available to kids? Of course not, it's literally illegal so that goes without saying. Call me conservative bordering on Libertarian. I don't think my personal beliefs should impose on anyone else's beliefs. Whether political, religious, cultural, or anything else. I believe that no one else should impose on my beliefs either. Fair? If you don't like something, then go somewhere else, or in this case don't read the offensive book. 🙄
@John Mateus Go back under your bridge.
@John Mateus You start all comments with "lol". Nobody cares what you think.
@John Mateus Pornography is already not allowed in school libraries, so what point are you even trying to make with your comments?
The ironic part about the Captain Underpants ban is that at one part in the series it's revealed that there are no books in the library because the librarian banned them all.
In all honesty, that's probably why they wanted it banned.
A few parents asked about how to get a book banned when I was a school librarian and our district had a process in place to consider a banning. First, the parent got a form to fill out, had to read the book, and then complete the form with details about what was objectionable in the book. I never had a parent get past receiving the form. Most of them had not ever read the book they objected to- like Goosebumps, Harry Potter, etc.
Excellent!
I don't think they do that now.
@@kimbrey65 I think each district sets up their own process for a potential ban in my state.
Now this is a great idea. If they want to ban stuff they should have to read it, and write a 20 page essay on why it should be banned. Providing no less than 10 reasons with specific references from said book! 😏 They'd give up as soon as they heard the word "essay" 🤣
@@MamaKittieKat Or they'd say "Fuck it" and send a bunch of fascists to threaten the staff and patrons of the library.
I've always believed that banned book lists are a great place to look for books to read.
Agree
Start with the explicit books liberals show to kids in schools, you should enjoy those.
Yes and more likely to be sought out by adolescents if they are considered taboo.
Literally though. I likely never would have read Ulysses, 13 Reasons Why, or Call Me By Your Name if it wasn't for conservative parents at my high school flipping out over them :D
same. 😂
"James and The Giant Peach", and later "1984" and "Fahreinheit 451" were all REQUIRED reading taught by my English teachers in school.
When my kids were young, I did this weird thing where if they wanted to read a book, especially if it was rumored to be inappropriate for their ages, I would read the book first and decide for myself whether it was appropriate for my kids. 😮 INCONCEIVABLE!
I do that now with my kids. Wow we are soooo out of control. What is wrong with us? Lol
@@ashleykrowiorz2246 We need to be stopped!
We should be ashamed of ourselves. Lol
Now that's being a good parent!
except parents aren't allowed in sth school libraries and they have books showing butt plugs and oral sex. Is this the censrship people protect while the governments are censoring everything we only protect books showing sexually explicit imagery to kids?
why are other censorship concerns ignored?
Does anybody realize sth grasp of cooovid censorship? I'm afraid to write th word there was so much censorship.. but people want to protect schools showing porn to kids.
tehy don't mid we're losing free speech due to phobia accusations. They just want kids to be able to see porn in schools.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Winne-The-Pooh, and 1984 are such great books. They are classics today!
Unfortunately, 1984 is becoming more of a reality than a classic.
@@toohip People today will probably think it is a nonfiction book.
@Maria CANCER so sorry you got cancer. I hope you can overcome it. I am sending you positive vibes. Also a hug. ❤
@Maria CANCER All the best to you
The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger was banned in my grade school when I was young, notice how popular these books become AFTER they are banned, it had the same effect. In fact kids who didn't care about that book had to get a copy to see what all of the fuss was about, kids will always be curious! BTW, reading that book didn't inspire new juvenile delinquents as feared, lol.
it is a pretty boring read. Lotsa projection from the whiners frankly.
yeah the book was amusing knowing it was banned.
Let's be honest. Some people aren't satisfied unless they are pissed off about something.
And now they all have a platform and can gather and exercise influence.
that's what culturaaal Marxism is. They complain and complain until people cancel, ban or push censorship. It's maoism which is basically using identity politics to cause division and hate while declaring victimhood..
I misspelled the word cultural because censors call the term anti semitic which is an authoritarian trick. Call everything you want to ban racist or sexist... or some other phobia.
The ban on Winnie The Pooh in China is the most ridiculous! Being compared to a cute, cuddly teddy bear is the highest compliment one can receive. Ironically, some Disney Pooh merch is made in China.
Autocrats do tend to be ridiculous. Ridiculously insecure among other things.
Banking books at all in merica is ridiculous but that’s the Christians in power
Kung Fu Panda owns monopoly on childrens books in China and does not allow competition...
Xi being a Karen.
I think One of the dumbest ban books ever was the one happened in Chile. At Pinochet's dictatorship, they burned Cubism art books because "military goverment" thought they are from Cuba and "Cubism = Cuba = Communism" 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Silly book ban!
“We’d look up the definition but someone banned the dictionary…” 😂😂😂 That had me rolling
Omg!! I LOVED that part!! Hilarious!!
Oh the irony 😱
When I was running a Montessori school library, the principal asked if we should remove the Harry Potter books. After processing that my career in libraries had already reached THAT point, I very steadily explained WHY the books should stay, i.e. good defeating evil, power of love, etc. It wasn't a religious school, FFS. And I'd be the one to deal with the backlash from the students if we took the HP books away. That was NOT going to happen.
If I remember correctly, To Kill A Mockingbird is also on the hit list in some places.
It is and so is Huck Finn. A lot of books with strong racial themes using racial language including that one peculiar word are being pushed on because we don't want students to feel uncomfortable.
@@angelaharris53 also the Harry Potter books they were where they were trying to ban those
I have read To Kill A Mockingbird. Although I don't like the N-word I fully understood that that was how people talked in that time period in the deep south.
@@angelaharris53we use to call it “tequila mockingbird” when we had to read it in 8th grade.
ALL book bans are ridiculous! Censoring books only makes kids more determined to get their hands on them. If you don't like it, don't read it. It's that simple.
2023: hwy dad what are books? 2033: what does illiteracy mean? 2043: what's reading??
Just like Prohibition of banning beer and whiskey. It made people more determined to get their hands on them.
The insane circular logic drives me crazy.
Also that lady Dodd: looks like she would be a blast to hang out with.
Ugh
Right. Kids should be able to read the anarchist cookbook, 120 days of Sodom and have access to playboy.
Not everything out there needs to be readily available.
@@trnguy6137 - Your comment reminded me of a an old 1960 movie called The Time Machine. The guy goes 3,000 years into the future and no one knows what books are. Not only that, people do not know anything. One scene shows a girl drowning in a creek and everybody just sits there and watches (that in itself is almost like people today with cellphones making a video from someone dying)
I love how these parents act like every kid doesn't get on the internet everyday
The library in my hometown sold some of the earlier editions of their books, and one of them I bought was Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume. That is such a great book!
That is a great book Margaret is searching for God how is that bad and the Wizard of Oz that woman saying its not true to real life well duh its called Fantasy lady LOL
@@aprilgosa5779 The rationale for banning books is probably more of an opinion based on personal views than anything reasonable.
The Little House on The Prairie books have received a lot of criticism recently.
'Where the Sidewalk Ends' had a bunch of entertaining poems. Especially, 'Sylvia Synthia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out'.
I read that book when I in the 5th grade. Love that book❤
To me the Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout poem teaches you the importance of not putting off chores like taking out the garbage because it would lead to a big mess.
If a book is banned, that's a good hint that it should move to the top of your reading list.
yep 😂
Well, sexually explicit books for kids are being withheld from schools, go ahead and read those.
I still have my kids' collection of Captain Underpants, Dr Seuss, Where the Wild Things Are, Harry Potter, assorted fairy tale books and many others. Odd that even after reading all those, they still turned out to be good humans.
Any book ban is just crazy. Someone is going to get offended by any book, no matter the subject matter.
@John Mateus what about the fact that none of these titles being passed around for school bans contain any pornography? Your point is extremely weak.
@John Mateus By that logic, tye Bible should be banned due to the amount of pornography in it like what Lot and his daughters do after Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed by burning sulfur, how "spilling one's seed" originated and became a crime, and the entire Song of Songs which describe a woman's body in unflattering detail...
@John Mateus what is your point? once again, someone is going to be offended, even if the books is all about sunshine and gum drops.
@@kurlykaitlyn which titles? The ones AOC said? I have a bridge to sell you btw.
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 does it explain to kids with pictures how to pleasure your classmate? Because some books at some schools do. By that logic let’s teach the Bible in schools.
These groups that want books banned are just flipping nuts!
Yes, and always have been!
It wasn’t long ago several snowflake leftists went on tv trying to prevent WWII being taught because it made them feel uncomfortable, also they hated labels, now you have to call them by those they choose or you get a mob of lunatics after you.
I know it's silly some parents get so worked up over the smallest things
@@lizzybearstar1661 you sound so completely ignorant it’s both tragic and hysterical
@@lizzybearstar1661 what are these “smallest things” silly parents get worked up over? Do tell.
If you think that 1984 promotes communism, you clearly didn't read 1984
Unfortunately a common mistake made by the poorly educated in the USA is to confuse communism with totalitarianism.
I think what was going on in 1950's America vs. Soviet Union did probably seem like the Spiderman meeting Spiderman meme. They were both heavy on censorship in those times
RIGHT!!!!
George Orwell was a Democratic Socialist, like Bernie Sanders.
George Orwell 1984? Overrated in my opinion
As a sixth grade teacher back in the ‘90’s and early 2000’s, the students were required to have a note from parents in order to read library copies of the Harry Potter series. I often wondered how many parent notes were forgeries. 😅
Almost every religious person hated J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter books for “promoting witchcraft.” Now they love her for her controversial comments on the trans community.
A+ video!
It is like a snapshot of American literature, a classic in its own regard.
I was going to mention the Chinese ban on Alice in Wonderland, but you beat me to it! IIRC there were also bans in that country on Dr. Seuss books for a similar reason. I believe it went against certain Confucian morals/teachings, specifically animals behaving in a manner similar to humans (walking on two legs and talking in human speech). Something about blurring the line. I used to be a library assistant, and doing the banned book display in October was always a treat. ^^
Yeah, imagine if you ever thought of animals as having emotions and feeling pain etc - like humans. Whatever would you put on your plate?!
People.... Please read these books. After hearing the reasons they were banned, I felt like I lost a few brain cells hearing those idiotic reasons
Idiocracy here we come
Too much Social Media influences creates frantic and paranoia behaviors towards books. They are just lacking reading comprehension and deep understanding of the narrations.
social media is very censored. Why accept the censorship on social media? @@minchi_the_aoigirl we won't have dangerous books written any more because they are censored before ever being accepted.
in Ontario canada our public library had a public book burn ing. Harry Potter books were some of the first burned. Any book that was considered was burned but they couldn't burn them all. Over 3000 books were chosen.
Our government has algorithmic control of the whole canadian internet and funds the media. Censorship is canadian now.
'There's no moral or immoral book - books are either good written - or bad written, that's all.' (Oscar Wilde)
Ban Oscar Wilde
@@julienielsen3746 I'm sorry what did you just say????
@@lizzybearstar1661 Weren't they against Oscar Wilde back in his day? The Picture of Dorian Gray. Probably why he said that.
Oscar Wilde was a pervert, sadly.
My love of theater stemmed from watching the play Alice in Wonderland with my elementary school class at a nearby school. It was such a ground-shaking performance that the troupe was asked to come back and we went to see it as a class again!
Our elementary school also performed The Wizard of Oz for the spring play, I remember singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow as a group.
I wonder if schools even do plays anymore. As a kid born 1962, those days I even performed in many school play. My son born 1989 even performed in school plays as Santa Clause in the 1990s. However, I did have much younger children that went to elementary and high school during the 2008 and final year 2020. I noticed a big change in schools since the 1990s. I dont think they do school plays anymore. Too bad.
@@nazfan01 I live in village in Nebraka, and they still do school plays here.
My brother lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, and they do not have school plays (likely because of the difficulty of coordination for that many students).
@@nazfan01 I was Santa Clause and the main actor for the Christmas school play the school year I graduated elementary school, as was my younger brother two years later.
I have actually been Santa Clause the last two years of the Christmas program (and my father was before that), but it is a music program without a play. The kids ask me what they want for Christmas after the program.
Correction on that statement above: They don't do school plays here anymore. There was a One-act play but it was not an actual school play.
@@btetschner - Ok I guess it differs State by State or by area. I know during the 2008 -2020 time frame I never seen or heard a thing about ay plays.
I got a C for a book report on The Odyssey because the material was “pagan.”
Good grief, as a retired teacher I am gobsmacked.
@@mariatounsi5990 yeah, we had a whole class on Mythologies of the World.
WTF?
@@ZodaSoda Only some bring their personal ideologies and biases to the classroom. But it is a shame that percentage is becoming higher.
That's ridiculous.. did you go to a religious school or something?
Loved the video BUT you forgot to mention Uncle Tom's Cabin. That got banned in my school district for 6 months in the schools and the PTA tried to get it banned from the public libraries as well. But they had no objections to the, um,"spicy" novel Wifey ?
Books should never be banned or burned.
Tell Governor Ron that.
@@paulh6517 Tell that to the maniacs altering the content of Dr. Seuss books.
@John Mateus Those sorts of books are restricted to people who are 18 or older, so I see no need to ban them, adults can read what they want, even if it is not very nice. Books that promote Nazism are examples of literature that could be harmful, but it is up to us as responsible adults to realise that nazism is bad. Overall, book-bans sets a bad precedent, even if some books suck hard.
@@paulh6517 banned or removed from kids curriculum? Know the difference
@@deteon1418 you might want to check out some videos of parents reading the filth schools allow little kids to read. They come with explicit images too btw. Welcome to reality under the Left.
I’m currently rereading one of my favorite books of all time, Fahrenheit 451, for the umpteenth time and it’s disturbing how much it resonates even 70 years after it was written. I’m in college to become a librarian and I honestly hope I have the opportunity to have a showdown with anyone who believes books should be banned.
My dad never went to complain and try to ban books, but he had some minor complaints about Captain Underpants and Matilda.
Captain Underpants because it encouraged my brother’s weird obsession with toilet humor.
Matilda because it said that kids can punish their parents if their parents were bad.
Of course we owned a copy of each. He never let his dislike for a book stop us from reading it.
Fahrenheit 451 was about the rise of TV causing people to stop reading books. Bradbury himself said that.
Books and why they've been banned are a whole series, Houdini's books, espionage manuals, the list goes on...
Now I'm interested in espionage.. 😂
I have to check out the first banned book The New English Canaan, that is now a piece of history!
Oh yeah me too! I'm gonna add it to my must check out book list! Thanks for the recommendation! 😃
@@92RKID Have you ever read the novella First Love by Ivan Turgenev?
@@btetschner No, I didn't know it even existed!
@@92RKID If you like crazy stories of new love, then you will like it!
Turgenev was actually the first Russian author to be popular in the West (first also to be widely translated).
I'm surprised the book I read as a kid - "From the Mixed up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler" wasn't included because of it glamorizing runaway children! Haha!
That was such a great book!
That is a title I rarely hear anyone mention.
@@btetschner I actually loved it so much I treated myself to a copy of it via Amazon!
@@jons.6216 It has been a long time since I have read the book...but wasn't there a part where one of the kids was hungry and said they felt like an empty tube of toothpaste?
My dad has said if you want to ban books, ban the Bible.
He thinks banning books are stupid and I do as well
If the freaking *dictionary* being banned doesn't prove that censorship is just power-driven horse hockey, I don't know what will.
The Harry Potter ban was actually why my family got into them :P my older brother and i were home schooled at the time, and my mom wanted to rebel from what the home schooling teachers of the area :P 20 ish years later, im a proud hufflepuff and shes and proud snape lover :P
My neighbors were a Baptist pastor and his wife. Their 14 year old daughter at the time used to hang out with my (step)daughter and they would read Harry Potter at my house because she didn't want her parents to know lol
I love Harry Potter but can't jkr
My parents let me read Harry Potter when it came out because they wanted me to read (I was a kid at the time)
IN canada, a public library burned the Harry potter books. Now woke types are the huge censors.
I'm so proud to say many of these books are in our curriculum here in Florida of all places.
Goosbumps was the big stink when I was growing up. My mother once saw a woman at a local book store asking the owner not to sell any of the books. She speculated that she'd never read any of them.
@Maria CANCER You should write your own comment instead of replying to someone else.
In my teens I read Catch 22, The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight, and was told by an older relative that I shouldn’t read books like that. I had also read the first four books by John Norman, the “Chronicles of Gor” series. She bought me the next four books. She had obviously not read these. I didn’t enjoy the later books by Norman, due to the misogyny and glorification of slavery. Also, in Burroughs novels, Tarzan and Jane were married. It’s the movies that depicted them as an unwed couple, with an adopted son.
Well, yeah, it’s mainly the Johnny Weissmuller films where an in name only Tarzan and a much different Jane (Jane Parker) were still just a boyfriend and girlfriend with an adopted son.
Nice to know that what’s going on in schools now, has been going on since the 1600’s! I wonder if the ones who banned the books back then, hadn’t read them either….
As a child, adolescent, I read all the books in the children's library by the time I was fourteen which includes all of The wizard of Oz. Most people are not aware that the wizard of Oz is a large series of books. Although I don't remember much now the characters still I do remember.
All book bans are insane. My local library had a basement with children's books and the upstairs were "adult" books. You couldn't check out books from the adult section until you were in high school. I had read all the books downstairs I was interested in and had checked out the upstairs books. (It was the sci-fi section that was most interesting.) My mom would go with me and check out the books I wanted on her card. She told me that when she was young, the extent of okay books for her were similar to ones written by Elsie Dinsmore. I read one, they were bloody awful. Mom said she managed to read Edgar Rice Burroughs books - including Tarzan - because the librarian hadn't read them. If the librarian had known about Jane being held against Tarzan's manly chest, they would have been banned. I always thought as many books as you can get a kid to read was the right number and kinds of books.
Ahh, no wonder why most of the official Tarzan films are tamer and softer than the canonical books themselves.
What are you talking about? Elsie Dinsmore was a character in a book, not a living person and she certainly didn't write any books. In the books she is a 10-year old little girl. There are 25 volumes in the series!!
@@phillipstephens4522 So it's about, not by. Glad you liked them, Phillip
in Ontario canada our public library had a public book burn ing. Harry Potter books were some of the first burned. Any book that was considered was burned but they couldn't burn them all. Over 3000 books were chosen.
Our government has algorithmic control of the whole canadian internet and funds the media. Censorship is canadian now.
Now do a whole video on banned or “controversial” artworks. It’s a shame, too. 🤦♂️
Like Florida recently banning the statue David? Yeah a real stupid move!
Couldn't believe it when I first heard about it and still can't believe it now. How totally stupid!
@@gaywizard2000 I hate that shit! My nick name is “King David” ( for real! 😅) and art is akin to our gift of language and a way to express and explore the inner self. People must accept the sweet and the sour in the banquet of life. But David is beautiful! ❤️
(And also, art is a way to look back upon history so that we may learn from lessons of the past.)
@@gaywizard2000 Here in Greece we had a news segment about that, truly humiliating.
Get your act together and vote these aged ghouls out!
@@azazel166 I am a Canadian so I can't vote DeSantis out! But I have a degree in Sculpture and have always fought against Censorship and the fascist inclinations of small men! (Literally in this case)!
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman lawyer and philosopher, 107-43 B.C.
The most recent are the worst because it means people haven't learned anything!
Have you ever noticed that the most outspoken people are usually also the most evil people.
Yes, leftist lunatics let us know every day with every tantrum.
@@andreshernandez1180 _[stares at camera]_
The only reading material i want banned is the damn “List Of Banned Books” !
What about sexually explicit books for kids? Are those okay?
@@andreshernandez1180 but maybe shouldn't people and parents have the right to decide what is it okay for the kids and what is on I read whatever I wanted my mother never told me what I could or couldn't read
@@lizzybearstar1661 yes, parents should have the right to decide, which is what the Left doesn’t want, they want teachers to decide what kids learn, read and do, they encourage keeping secrets from parents.
Check out videos of parents reading their own filthy books to board members, they go nuts, the same books kids can read every day. Sickening.
@@lizzybearstar1661 no reply huh? Reality just hit you in the face, put some ice on it.
I guess banning _Charlotte's Web_ would be considered to be a case of arachnophobia. As far as religious leaders banning books because they feature talking animals, their holy book features a talking snake.
There was a talking donkey somewhere in the Bible too.
I bet those people banning Harry Potter are now loving it's author.
I'm still of the opinion that banning a book criticizing censorship in general and book bans in particular is ridiculous. I was dealing with a troubled adolescent a few years back and realized that I had never read Fahrenheit 451 so I decided to challenge him to read it and I would too. Unfortunately we only got halfway before all my attempts fell through. But I think we got some good conversations out of what we did read.
All of the book bans are ridiculous. To quote Thomas Gray, where ignorance is bliss tis folly to be wise.
@John Mateus In my opinion, the written word should never be banned. That runs the gamut from Mein Kampf to the communist manifesto. Trying to ban pornography is a waste of time, since any 12 year old with half a brain and a cell phone, can bring up any image here she would like.
@@wunderkind-7724 the conservatives aren't trying to ban any ebook, just take them out of liveries. You think we should teach his about butt plugs and show oral sex illustrations in schools? Why on the schools?
in Ontario canada our public library had a public book burn ing. Harry Potter books were some of the first burned. Any book that was considered was burned but they couldn't burn them all. Over 3000 books were chosen.
Our government has algorithmic control of the whole canadian internet and funds the media. Censorship is canadian now.
History is not there for you to like or dislike.
It is there for you to learn from it.
And if it offends you, even better.
Because then you are less likely to repeat it.
It's not yours to erase or destroy.
I doubt you'll do a video on the books that are being censored, rewritten, and changed for the sake of "feelings".
NGL, i'm kind'a surprised that "Aesop's Fables" didn't make the cut.
I did not know that Winnie The Pooh has been a banned book I love reading all the Winnie The Pooh books it brings me back to my childhood
I'd love to see a video around the war on drugs, and the old propaganda and scare tactics they'd use during the time
Wait! But Tarzan and Jane were married in the books. It’s only in the first few Weismuller films that they were living together unmarried. Did they just not read the books and based the ban on the movies?
Yep! Had a minister and witnesses and everything.
I'd bet money the banners hadn't read the books.
this is old. Leftists are banning books now, not he conservatives. I don't like either side banning but he left is pro censorship through accusations of phobias. That's how they ban. they only protect books in school libraries that are sexiually explicit. These books aren't even banned. You can still but them. Parents just don't want weird brainwashing and peedeo teachers.
As a big fan of historical fiction, banning a book due to the depiction of wine is quite odd to me. I mean, it was pretty dangerous to consume water during many parts of history, meaning many children's books depict the consumption of alcohol. So, if they would like to band the depiction of it, they would have to take out a pretty large part of a school library.
Well, when I was a child in the 1970s, they banned Old Yeller because it had the word b****. And it was the actual dictionary definition. Yet, Huckleberry Finn was free to read just years removed from the Civil Rights era.
Huck Finn is pretty good representation of pre Civil War life in the south. I’ve never understood peoples objections to it. The main plot is that Huck builds a real relationship with Jim, and in the end has more respect for Jim, than he has for his drunken, layabout, child abusing father.
It does sound like being presently in Florida! Frightful to see ignorance in action!
How idiotic! And it’s still going on right now. What are they afraid of? Fantasy? Thought? Truth?
Maga Republicans want a fascist theocracy
@@mytruecrimelibrary 5 yr olds don't need to know the best toys to shove up their butts.
Yes.
@John Mateus what pornography?
lol this dolt is a true crime fan & thinks dems are different from .. "maga republicans" .. is what she copy/pastes in every thread.
True crime fan doesn't read _TRUE_ Crime obviously.
Bans are ridiculous. Here is a noble idea, if you don't like the book, don't read it, don't buy it, don't check it out
Book Bans couldn't be anymore ridiculous and I'm sure my mom would have hated Book bans Considering she used to love reading 🙏
Did she love reading dirty books to kids?
@@andreshernandez1180 What is wrong with you?
@@NASCARFAN93100 nothing, I don’t read dirty books to kids like leftists do
@@andreshernandez1180 oh my God I'm pretty sure libraries don't have porn. Your argument is not even valid
@@lizzybearstar1661 your whining is not valid, check out some videos on parents reading to board members the filth they allow in their schools, it’s just evil, the board members tell parents not to read it because it’s inappropriate, yet there it is for kids to access. You’ve been lost somewhere, time to catch up.
5:06 The first Harry Potter book was released in the U.S. in September of 1998, at the same time I was starting classes as a freshman at Doane University.
In reference to the owl, the Doane Owl is the oldest college newspaper in the state of Nebraska.
My sister loves Alice in particular the artwork. I got her an adorable Alice tea pot that she really loved!
I still can’t get over the irony of trying to ban Fahrenheit 451
Why’d you stop there? I thought you’d get into to To Kill A Mockingbird and Little House on the Prairie.
I loved Captain Underpants and Harry Potter as a kid those were the books that got me into reading when they came out
Parents trying to ban books from their kids just adds that book to their reading list.
Trying to ban anything really just makes it more popular.
Tarzan and Jane were actually married by Jane's father, who was a clergyman. Burroughs had the wedding in one of the stories.
Yeah, the last chapter or so of _The Return of Tarzan._ Haven't read it in years, but they utterly legally married alright.
You know the banners were just going off of the Weissmuller movies.
Yup. The Weissmuller to Scott Tarzan films are basically peak camp straight. No wonder why the Disney films and show have both Tarzan and Jane married like in the books.
Just shows how ignorant some people are.
@John Mateus what about it?
@@chayden153 should it be removed from schools or allowed?
I remember the churches here, the Catholic church in particular, wanting to ban the book "The Da Vinci Code" because the contents were "blasphemous" and all but ironically, I found and read a copy of it in the library of a very Catholic, priest-run university that I went to during college.
Correct they even went after the movie .
funny now the left are banning all the books because of p.c. language.
I didn’t know that a ban attempt for Fahrenheit 451 came from my own damn Texas county 💀 that’s hilariously disappointing. I’m glad I did get assigned the book as summer reading one year tho!
There is no better way to get people to READ A BOOK, then to "ban" it!
Parents of schoolchildren: Let’s ban these harmless children’s books where the animals are talking a human language.
Also those parents: Ive never heard of ‘Animal Farm’
wait til they hear about the bible...
@@cerebrumexcrement Not really animals that spoke for themselves. Satan possessed the snake so he could get into the garden of Eden. And God had the donkey talk. - But this is silly, because how about Bugs Bunny and every other animated animal that talked over the years.
Leftists are pro censorship but they only defend free speech when it comes rot showing sexually explicit books that aren't banned to little children. The books aren't banned. You can still buy them.
so you'd be okay with the bible being taught at school? That was banned in schools. are you against that?@@cerebrumexcrement Is it only the sex books for kids you protect? These books aren't banned. Parents can buy them for their kids.
"So which book ban do you think was the most ridiculous?"
What I think isn't the point. There are people to whom NONE of this is ridiculous. And that's where we're headed...
The comic book ban of the 50s should be an episode!!!
Yet it did produce "Mad Magazine".
I agree 👍
Banning books is stupid.. Nazis and the church likes to ban books.. more reason to read them.
I hate seeing book bans pop up again
@@ZodaSoda Florida. And also social media. It's fucking disgusting.
@@ZodaSodaliberal teachers in America are banning books with topics they don’t like sadly. Tom Sawyer type books
@@Jiff321 maga Republicans are the ones banning books like The Life Of Rosa Parks, The Color Purple and Maus. Why are you lying?
I hate book bans. No one can tell me what I can or cannot read.
DeSantis and Republicans gonna try!
The government should regulate what you can and cannot read. Stay mad.
@@kdm187 Na they can bite me
@@lizzybearstar1661 ?
In Genesis, Adam and Eve were naked and they were not ashamed, so shouldn't the Bible be banned for depicting nudity? And there's also that incident with Lot and his daughters...I could go on.
And talking animals! The snake in the Garden of Eden, and Balaam's donkey.
Not to mention that there was a passage where King David's son Absolum tricked and raped his sister Tamar!
in Ontario canada our public library had a public book burn ing. Harry Potter books were some of the first burned. Any book that was considered was burned but they couldn't burn them all. Over 3000 books were chosen.
Our government has algorithmic control of the whole canadian internet and funds the media.
Censorship is leftist now.
YOu only protect books that aren't banned but just taken our t of children's school libraries.
To you that's the same as a ban.
You ignore the banning and censoring the left is doing. Tribal.
It's ironic Harry Potter is trying to get banned or canceled again for an entirely different reason.
we have a canadian library that had a public book burning and burned Harry potter and 23000 other books that were deemed politically incorrect.
I remember my 8th grade English teacher let us read go ask Alice. She bought those books with her own money and said if anyone from admin came in to hide the book. She said that book was important for young teens being pressured into drug use and the aftermath! She told us how she lost friends like Alice lost herself in the book. Till this day I have the copy she gave me…she made us do a reflection book report after we read the book…she then took those book reports to the DOE and it got the book unbanned in our middle school…what bible thumpers and helicopter parents try to censor literature to protect it does the opposite…not having any insight and being controlled can make the children they are trying to protect end up like Alice in the book…up
Charlotte's Web
J. K. Rowling is a devot Anglican
How Ironic the far right has compared things that not go their own way as seething from 1984
Just because a book is in the library…..you don’t have to check it out.
@John Mateus What is with your obsession over porn?
@John Mateus clearly you've never set foot in a library. if you had, you would know libraries do not have it. even if they did, it's no business of yours to dictate what others do. keep your christo-fascist backwater fairy tales to yourself.
But there’s no need for pornographic books at schools so why even have them there?
@John Mateus get Help
just because a book isn't allowed in a childrens' library , it doesn't mean it's banned. Calling them based is dishonest framing. In canada our government has algotrythmic control of the internet. They also fund almost all media. They censor a lot. We've literally had libraries burn books publicly . 3000 books were burned ant an ontario library because they weren't politically correct.
THta;'s okay though because it bans non p.c. thought? What's wrong with people here ? they allow and are for censorship but protect sex books for children?
they aren't even banned!
Lost of books aren't allowed in children's libraries. If you want to intentionally be dishonest call them banned.
The most ridiculous ban was against " Lady Chatterley's Lover " by D H Lawrence both here in the U.K. and in the U.S.A. It was banned between 1929 and 1959 throughout the whole of the U.S.A. and 1929 to 1960 throughout the U.K. The reason was because of the language especially with the use of four-letter words and its honest depiction of sex as well as a reference to anal intercourse. Of course, as we all know, sex didn't exist in those days or at any other time throughout the whole of human history therefore it couldn't be honestly written about by anyone, could it? What's really funny is that when the ban was lifted in the U.K. in 1960 the queues to purchase it were unimaginable and it went straight to the top of the best seller list.
funny that the left are now the censors. They are [pro censorship now. the only thing they protect is sexually explicit books f or little kids. Conservatives want them not banned but just not read to their kids. Leftists call this a book ban while they ban everything due to [phobia accusations. everything is banned now by leftists but we hear the right are sth ones doing it because they don't want adults reading to them about butt plugs.
THat's censorship to the modern left.
We had one copy at school where it fell open at the 'dirty' bits that we all read. Personally I never thought the book was very good apart from those bits!
Irony is the fact that those who make a big hoopla about banning a particular book are actually giving it free advertisement and making it even more intriguing for people to read it.
Alvin Schwartz’s “Scary Stories to tell in the Dark”, Madeleine L'Engle’s “the Time Quintet” (a Wrinkle in Time) and Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” (the Golden Compass)
All the Noddy books were banned at one stage because someone thought it was suspicious having Noddy cohabiting with another male character.
I thought the Charlotte’s Web ban was the most ridiculous ban. Being a Christian myself, there is nothing blasphemous about talking animals. The people who were protesting the book must’ve forgotten about Numbers 22 in the Bible, where God opens a donkey’s mouth, and it starts speaking
Is that like opening one's mouth and showing what an ass one is? 🤣
Finally someone said it.
Maurice Sendak's the Night Kitchen also was given grief for nudity when I was a kid in the 80's...
I want to check out all those books and already want to read most of them.
Didn't a teacher just get fired for showing the students the statue of David?.. there's a topic for a video..
Also, kids are no longer interested in reading now plainly because adults limit their choices and have them read the ones given by their teachers to write papers on.