Florida bans "The Outsider" by Albert Camus as unsuitable for kids

[Flash]

Did they remove the JB Stoner biography, is that why you are mad. Did they take Birth of a Nation off the shelf?

I loved the movie Birth of a Nation. The KKK whipped the ass of the Negroes trying to rape the White chicks. D.W. Griffin did a great job.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Without looking it up..was this the book that the movie with Rob Lowe was based on?

No, its a different book. Both are banned though..

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Left wing hysterics seems confused over the word "ban". If a book is removed from a children's library it isn't banned, it's just removed from a children's library.

Why have any books at all ? Ideas can be dangerous Especially if they have not been authorised by the ministry of information.

This is how fascism prospers. Ordinary folk look the other way.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

I just read a summary in Wiki. If that description is accurate, it is a relatively short first person narrative of a man with a seemingly sociopathic personality who helps a friend who beats his (the friend's) girlfriend with no remorse about how the beating affects the woman. Later, the woman's brother attacks his friend and when the hero meets the brother, he shoots the brother multiple times even though the first shot kills him. Then he goes to prison and is executed, still feeling misunderstood.

I think that there are better things for high school librarians to promote. Think of the shelf space. You would have to throw out two or three copies of that book to make room for one copy of Atlas Shrugged, a far more instructive book for high schoolers.

A plotline is hardly the novel is it ?
Hamlets father dies and he spends a few hours whining about it. Thats a plotline.
Huck Finn escapes his abusive father and helps a slave escape is a plotline. The novel is rather more than that.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Revolting Rhymes - Wikipedia

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They have even banned Revolting Rhymes. How can that be defended ? This is a form of madness. Witch burning is coming soon.

 

[Seymour Flops]

I loved the movie Birth of a Nation. The KKK whipped the ass of the Negroes trying to rape the White chicks. D.W. Griffin did a great job.

Tommy Taint would insist that it be allowed in school and public libraries.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Why have any books at all ? Ideas can be dangerous Especially if they have not been authorised by the ministry of information.

This is how fascism prospers. Ordinary folk look the other way.

Do you really not understand the difference between government not allowing a book and government not promoting a book?

 

[Flash]

Tommy Taint would insist that it be allowed in school and public libraries.

I wouldn't know what he thinks because I have him on ignore. I don't want to know what Eurotrash have to say about anything.

 

[Burgermeister]

In DeSantis's Florida - fuck around and find out. The parents were complaining about obscene, pornographic, LGBTQ, CRT and in general all the agenda-driven crap that has been polluting the schools. Now it's up to the librarians and media specialists to make sure that shit isn't in their libraries. Nobody should be shocked that these creatures from the American educational system are having trouble applying common sense.

These are just school libraries. They are not the place for indoctrinating materials that parents need to be ever-vigilant about. You can get your kid any book you want.

 

[j-mac]

This type of stuff is what you progressives get when you stray from the core mission of teaching our young people to be proficient in the three "R's" and get into indoctrination....Progs can't corrupt the system, then complain when that corruption backfires on them...

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Did they remove the JB Stoner biography, is that why you are mad. Did they take Birth of a Nation off the shelf?

Birth of a Nation is required viewing for the racist right.

 

[22lcidw]

A librarian’s view of Florida’s book ‘vetting’ for schools, and the banned titles

A vetting process to comply with Florida guidelines to school books has caused chaos for students and teachers, writes Richard Hall

www.independent.co.uk

Its been removed from school libraries by Desantis thought police.

Now I read it about 40 years ago and I found it hard work. So I guess that it wouldnt appeal to too many teens. But there will be some who would read it and appreciate what the author was talking about.

But now they will be denied that opportunity.Florida will not be rearing any philosophers any time soon.

It seems that desantis is intent on cultivating a generation of morons.

This is a book written by one of thee major figures of the last century. Le Monde rated it the book of the century. Its been in print since 1942 and translated into every language.

It isnt teaching tots to give blow jobs. The idea that some partisan hack can just cancel it is Maoist in the extreme.

Some day a novel will be written about the Florida book burnings. Ron would ban that on day one.

We have to many philosophers already. Many many mouthpieces.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

This is how fascism prospers. Ordinary folk look the other way.

Exactly.

Fascism also flourishes when dishonest conservatives try to ‘justify’ book bans with lies about books just being ‘under review,’ or lying about books being ‘obscene’ or ‘pornographic,’ lies about ‘CRT’ (which isn’t taught in public schools), lies about books ‘promoting’ being gay or transgender, and lies about ‘concerned parents’ when in fact it’s state and local officials enacting the bans.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

I loved the movie Birth of a Nation. The KKK whipped the ass of the Negroes trying to rape the White chicks. D.W. Griffin did a great job.

Oh I know that is your favorite movie of all time, why don't you round up some of the boys and see if you can go out and save some white chicks.

 

[odanny]

"It is ranked #43 on the American Library Association’s Top 100 Most Challenged Books of 1990-2000 and has been banned from some schools and libraries because of its portrayal of gang violence, underage smoking and drinking, strong language, slang usage, and exposé on family dysfunction."

Banned Books Awareness: The Outsiders - World leading higher education information and services

Outsiders is a novel by S. E. Hinton set in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel and 18 when it was published in 1967. The book follows two rival groups, the Greasers and the Socs, who, divided by their dissimilar socioeconomic status, hold on to what they...

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Wasn't just a Desantis thing, this has been going on for years with this particular book.

The Outsiders is a great book! Read it as a kid and loved it, one of my earliest memories of a book I really enjoyed reading. Made into a movie with Swayze and Matt Dillon, a totally unforgettable book from all those years ago.

 

[odanny]

I loved that book!

Me too.

 

[Flash]

Oh I know that is your favorite movie of all time, why don't you round up some of the boys and see if you can go out and save some white chicks.

The KKK were the good guys that saved the pretty White girls's life from being raped and murdered by the Negroes. The Negroes were the shitheads. A movie that was a reflection of real life. What is not to like?

If Negroes were depicted real in the movies and TV now now most of them would be criminals, welfare queens and low IQ ghetto shitheads.

 

[Burgermeister]

This type of stuff is what you progressives get when you stray from the core mission of teaching our young people to be proficient in the three "R's" and get into indoctrination....

We are way too late to fight that, but at least DeSantis is trying. It is a constant struggle to stay on top of all the indoctrination bullshit that ends up in the public schools. Goes from the universities, then high schools, then middle schools, then grade schools. None of it has anything to do with being more effective educators and has everything to do with undermining America. None of these useful idiots have the first clue. You should see what these moronic "educators" do when they get a hold of some brilliant idea from the university commies like "social emotional learning".

 

[Tommy Tainant]

We are way too late to fight that, but at least DeSantis is trying. It is a constant struggle to stay on top of all the indoctrination bullshit that ends up in the public schools. Goes from the universities, then high schools, then middle schools, then grade schools. None of it has anything to do with being more effective educators and has everything to do with undermining America. None of these useful idiots have the first clue. You should see what these moronic "educators" do when they get a hold of some brilliant idea from the university commies like "social emotional learning".

Have you ever read a book. ?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

We have to many philosophers already. Many many mouthpieces.

Unreal.