[lit-ideas] Re: What is the difference between ...

When I hear of any book being banned, I make it a point to read it. When it was in a school library, I made it a point to give it to my children and now my granddaughter. However: 

Mike:Then there's poor bipolar Tipper Gore, wanting to
put warning labels on CDs with explicit language,
violating all the stereotypes.
Ms. Gore wanted this on rap and other stuff specifically aimed at children and teens. Had she been successful, and had the films and video games not followed the rap and hip hop, it might be that we would not now have children killing each other on a daily basis in our country. With knives, guns, 2x4s, baseball bats, etc.
If we don't believe that what children hear and see and learn don't make a difference in their thinking or behavior, then why do we send them to school? And the best schools if we can afford them. 

Veronica
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Mike: But certainly it is not the liberals who try to have books banned from libraries, it is not liberals who have symbolic "book burnings" as some churches around here do. The moral watch-dogs have always been affiliated with conservatism, not liberalism in my experience.
I'm sure the poet -- nine books out, now on tour in LA -- celebrates Banned Book Week with fervor and probably library-sponsored readings, disdains simpleminded attempts to ban Catcher in the Rye and Huckleberry Finn, and considers himself an enlightened person ... as we all do.
Yet he doesn't want Palin's puff piece to make it to the bookstore, let alone the library. He wants HarperCollins to pull it, because it is dangerous, and he is willing to cancel freedom of press for this higher morality.
People who disagree with him are "evil." On the other hand, people who disagree with conservatives are "closet Maoists" or "space cadets" or "fools" .... but seldom are labeled "evil."
Then there's poor bipolar Tipper Gore, wanting to put warning labels on CDs with explicit language, violating all the stereotypes. 
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