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Originally Posted by EatingPie
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. |
As I said before, I am fine with them pulling books from a school library because of not being age appropriate. In the case of Slaughterhouse 5, it was on the curriculum, so shouldn't it have been reviewed by the same people who voted against it in the first place? Why all of a sudden is there a problem now? If they had a problem with it, WHY ADD IT TO THE CURRICULUM IN THE FIRST PLACE? Also, if they are going to pull it for not being age appropriate, I want specific examples cited. If it is because of the F bomb usage, they need to show counts and page numbers. The more information they give, the more they show they honestly reviewed the material, and tried to validate their decision.