Thread: Missouri public school bans Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five'.
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Old 08-03-2011, 01:58 PM   #243
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Originally Posted by anamardoll View Post
Hellmark, I loved that one, too, and I like the idea. Someone make an Urban Dictionary adjustment:

Scroggins: Verb; To ban a book, movie, or other source of information due to a perceived conflict between a fictional worldview and the banner's own narrow worldview. I.e., "Slaughterhouse Five was in the Missouri Republic School Library until it got scrogginsed." See also, "Bob has been scrogginsing for Slaughterhouse Five to be removed from the Texas school libraries as well."
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I loved this comment from the article.
Missouri sure has been scrogginsed up.
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS View Post
It will make a fine addition to the current definitions. I thought about posting some, but I think that people might find offense even if they are behind a spoiler.
Ah, now we are all on our moral high horses, aren't we!

Before you make that post, consider something. At what point would you request a book be removed from the high school library? Before you answer "none," you may want to consider how broad that question really is.

What if the author calls black people "niggers" hundreds of times and means it? Or supports racism directly, and is trying to convince readers that black people (or Mexicans, or Polish, or Italians, or Indians, etc.) are inferior?

How about a book that argues 90% of the time, rape is a woman's fault? Or 100% of time?

What about a book that totally objectifies women, and communicates to boys and young men that women exist primarily as sex objects?

How about a Norweigan terrorist's manifesto which claims that murdering liberals is a good thing?

How about Hustler magazine? Or other images of hard-core pornography? Do you think those are fine to put in a High School library?

I pulled all but 2 of these from real books that I know.

We all have our limits on what we decide is moral, good, right, okay... appropriate for kids of a certain age. It's just in this case, we disagree with Mr. Scoggin's reason, and are willing to attack him on it (ironically, I could cite Christian "religious reasons" for removing any of the literature I listed above).

Remember, there's a saying about pointing a finger at someone leaving three fingers pointing back.

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