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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
This may be the best, or least-bad, argument yet, in the thread, for book suppression. King was afraid that one of his fictional murders was being enacted in real life, so he suppressed the novel to save lives, as he explains here.
In #15, issybird uses the word “subliminal” to describe the situation this thread is about. Whatever anyone thinks about King’s decision, suppressing books, because of a subliminal message to children, gets us into a deeper assault on freedom to read. |
I think the real issue is that some don't want to admit that there was a public campaign that triggered pulling the Dr Suess books off the market. Obviously, the King situation was a very different situation. I would tend to argue that once the book has been published and is out there, there was very little point for King to stop putting out new copies, but I can understand it and he was the author.
I'm reminded of a small child on movie night at the karate school years ago. He didn't want to watch a particular movie and he didn't want anyone else to watch it either and got very upset that anyone would want to watch it. People who are offended by a specific book can simply not buy it, or if they do buy it and become offended, ask for their money back. Heck, go ahead and put a bad review on Amazon if it makes you feel better. But that's not good enough, that don't want anyone else to be able to buy it either. Frankly, it's arrogance in extreme.