Stolen from Sean Sorrentino in Facebook.
The novels “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” will no longer be required reading in the Duluth school district due to the books’ use of a racial slur, a curriculum change supported by the local NAACP chapter.
The two books will continue to be available in school libraries and can be optional reading for students, but beginning next school year, they’ll be replaced as required reading by other literature that addresses the same topics in ninth- and 11th-grade English classes, said Michael Cary, the district’s director of curriculum and instruction.
I remember back in the late 70s and early 80s when a bunch of religious asshats and other associates wanted to ban books because of reasons up and including the use of certain bad words. The backlash that created was phenomenal and since it was tagged to the Conservative movement, it was a momentary black eye (Reagan did get elected, so there.)
Anyway, since then, the book-banning defense has been part and parcel of the Liberals. In fact the infamous list is still found around the Internet as proof of how evil the Conservative Book-Banning, Witch-Burning, Coat-Hanger Abortion crowd can be. In that list? “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ”
Liberals and Conservatives both have Authoritarian and Libertarian branches. The nature of politics means that the Authoritarian branches tend to rise to the top. In my experience, though, the Authoritarian Right is at least mildly more tolerable than the Authoritarian Left.
I’m not sure of Liberals with a libertarian branch. Hard to imagine what that might look like. The 4-sided Nolan diagram is a better way of looking at this rather than trying to make libertarians appear as a variant of socialist party A or socialist party B.
My school had a copy of the satanic bible and NO copies of the Holy Bible.
Cant offend anyone now can we…..