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Banned Book Week: 27 Sept - 4 Oct 2008
The title says it all. Banned Book Week
from the American Library Association:
“BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.”
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I have no problem with parents making a decision about what they feel is appropriate for their children to read, but I strongly disagree that they have the right to make that decision for other people's children. And that they have any right to have books removed from the library or other public forum because they don't like it.
I may be bat-shit crazy and read weird, freaky things - or even write them on occosion, but that's my choice. A person's right to censor others ends with their skin.
from the American Library Association:
“BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.”
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I have no problem with parents making a decision about what they feel is appropriate for their children to read, but I strongly disagree that they have the right to make that decision for other people's children. And that they have any right to have books removed from the library or other public forum because they don't like it.
I may be bat-shit crazy and read weird, freaky things - or even write them on occosion, but that's my choice. A person's right to censor others ends with their skin.