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Noting with interest that Rushdie gets a mention in an article about the Diary of Anne Frank getting caught up in the push to remove unsavoury books from schools in Fort Worth (along with the Bible). The article also refers to Heinrich Heine's "Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people."
Maybe a little common sense should be exercised in deciding which books should be subjected to censorship.1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
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Scripture before Tradition:
but that won't prevent others from
taking it upon themselves to deprive you
of the right to call yourself Christian.
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Originally posted by tabibito View PostThe article also refers to Heinrich Heine's "Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people."
"It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by CivilDiscourse View Post
It’s not censorship. It’s responsible collection curation.
It’s not censorship. It’s being accountable to your community, which is comprised of people from a myriad of backgrounds.
It’s not censorship. It’s accountability.
Who are they trying to convince? Those reading this drek, or themselves?
Keep clicking those heels together as you say it and maybe, just maybe you can make it true.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostIt’s not censorship. It’s responsible collection curation.
It’s not censorship. It’s being accountable to your community, which is comprised of people from a myriad of backgrounds.
It’s not censorship. It’s accountability.
Who are they trying to convince? Those reading this drek, or themselves?
Keep clicking those heels together as you say it and maybe, just maybe you can make it true.
It's not cancel culture, it's "consequence" culture.
It's not censorship, it's enforcing the terms of service.
They aren't the government, they are free to choose what they want on their platform.Last edited by CivilDiscourse; 08-18-2022, 06:27 AM.
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It wasn't the left that wanted the removal of the Diary of Anne Frank from the Fort Worth school libraries.1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
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Scripture before Tradition:
but that won't prevent others from
taking it upon themselves to deprive you
of the right to call yourself Christian.
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Originally posted by CivilDiscourse View Post
There's always some sort of doublespeak involved to justify their tactics.
It's not cancel culture, it's "consequence" culture.
It's not censorship, it's enforcing the terms of service.
They aren't the government, they are free to choose what they want on their platform.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostDo they have any idea who is in charge of public libraries? Those librarians are government employees.
Remember when the Alamo drafthouse broke discrimination law for wonder woman? They had "women's only" showings, and were going to only have women working that night. There were ton's of people defending that.
Look at Stoic defending discrimination in minneapolis schools for teacher firings.
There's always a rationalization that makes their use of tactics deemed bad on their face, to not be bad.
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We should just have a banned book library where we put all the books everyone wants to ban. That way they are not in the regular library but people can go there to read them if they want.
...then we can watch who does and know who to cancel
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostWe should just have a banned book library where we put all the books everyone wants to ban. That way they are not in the regular library but people can go there to read them if they want.
...then we can watch who does and know who to cancel
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Originally posted by CivilDiscourse View Post
No, but they have their own love of banning books
The article about banning the Bible and the Diary of Anne Frank makes that fairly clear. It seems that the libraries in question are yielding to demands from both sides of the aisle. Maybe they'll go all the way and simply close.1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
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Scripture before Tradition:
but that won't prevent others from
taking it upon themselves to deprive you
of the right to call yourself Christian.
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