Banned Books

This is what I think is a big problem.
If a book has at least one thing in it that is offensive, it just has to be banned.

What I think:
This is a problem in America, this is a problem because of the First Amendment.

What do you think?

 

This isn't a problem just with America. Every country has banned books that are not permitted there, as well as movies or television shows. Clockwork Orange is an example of a banned book and movie in Great Britain. Quite a few books of GB and the USA are banned in Islamic countries etc.

Personally, I disagree with the banning of books whether it disses a country, religion, culture, sexuality, or promotes those things, etc. It's how I feel about banning tv programs, movies etc. I don't believe in censorship for adults other than the fact we have the choice to not buy the book, to not believe in something, to not watch the movie etc. This is a global problem though, and not just an American one and I don't see it resolving until the majority of people in charge of countries believe that it should change. Sure, some things shouldn't be read or viewed by children without the parental figures determining it is appropriate, but adults to me should be able to check out nearly anything. Banning stuff most often means that something is so sensitive to some people that we all should go find a way to get it somehow. It encourages us to check out what's 'so bad' about it.

Of course, I suppose even I have to say there are some things I would not want to see on shelves of bookstores, such as ways to make Crystal Meth or some very harmful books that are threatening to people. I'll have to think on that more.

 

i own a banned book. an anarchy cook book which shows you how to make household bombs =]

but they made it illegal to buy them now from stores =/

 

I have that book too. *snickers*. As I said, banned books sadly encourages me to go find a way to get them to see what is so bad about them. =:/

 

yeah, there's a poster of banned books at our library that lists names and the reason. like the dairy of anne frank. that was banned probably in gemany because of the whole holocaust thing.

in china, they banned death note from schools. they decided to ban it becuase the students were giving teachers threats that they will write the teacher's name in a home made death note and kill the teacher

 

IMO, some books are banned to peak your interest in them, while others have too much inapropriate content in them. But its not just America, its global like Repliku said. As for banning things like Death Note, I think that its ridiculous. Those kids need help if they are threatening to kill teachers. And the teachers should know that Death Notes arent real =/ Anything that has to do with WW2 is banned in Germany because they are ashamed of what those people did back then.

Where can I get this book? Since it isnt in stores... =/

 

LMFAO, They believed the kids?
That's just sad

 

there are some sites to where you can download it and look at it through adobe reader

other than that you can get the real copy from ebay

 

Wait. Anne Frank is banned in Germany? For the Halocaust? ... But, Halocaust denial is illegal in Germany, right?

But, yeeeaaahhh. People try to get Harry Potter banned because they can't seem to learn how to read the darn book and understand what it's about.

I think I know why the super-fundies don't like the harry Potter books. They teach equality and standing up for yourself.

 

i know lol.

i don't know why or where it was banned. i just know it was at a time.

 

I think censorship of media for political reasons is wrong. People should be allowed to read into whatever side of a topic they wish. You take away that ability and you are supressing their rights. And anyway, banning something just makes people want to read or watch it more =/ Therefore banning is counter-productive.

 

There's a complex relativity in the matter. Yes some of it can be ridiculous, like the Catholic Church's views on fantasy and how it goes into witchcraft and other "unholy" things. One group's tolerance is another's intolerance so to speak.

 

I think taht certain books are banned for the reasons that they give people the wrong ideas to the countries that they live in. Such as Anne Frank in germany, or Anarchy Cook Book in America. The governments feel these books take away from either the pride of the country or they can possibly threaten the country in some way. Back in the old days, books of other religons were burned by the church, and gov'ts burned certain manuscripts that they felt may bring about an uprising. But one of the greatest quotes ever about books. " where they once burned books they will soon burn people" You take away something so simple as reading, you can take away more than you think.

 

Books are banned for political and religious reasons. I do not agree with it. People should know what they want to know if it is acessible to them, and can choose not to. Take a book for example. Anne Frank. A government has no right to remove this bok from shelves if people wish to read it.

Thats how i put it trying to get my thinking straight and trying not to say what has been said already.

 

it depends - like in school we are watching a movie about 1971 when white people and black people hated each other - ut it shows them coming together - it has a lot of racial slurs in it though so yeah

 

The whole point is people have the right to read all sides of an argument. I will admit that certain things like how to build a homemade incendiery device should be kept off the shelves, not that that would make much of a difference with the internet now.
I think books should never be banned for religious reasons. As soon as they are it means the religion that banned it is too doubtful of their own faith to think that a book is enough to damage their followers faith.

 

I don't have any banned books in my school, as far as I know. But I find the whole idea of it totally ridiculous.


Nothing would piss me off more than some overreacting Christian parent wanting my school to ban the Harry Potter books altogether. I've heard this was happening thought some schools, and thought I'd bring it up. I'd either have a word with the parents, or tell the school to screw them all and let us read what we damn well want. If they have a problem with it, then don't let the kid read it! It's as easy as that. Don't make the rest of us suffer because you can't get your ****in' religion out of your head.


But I don't see the whole point of banning books. As saxoR_vs_aroS mentioned, books are there for a good use, and shouldn't be banned.

 

Wat I think of it? Huh....

I say, I REALLY DON CARE. Personally for me, I read all my stuff on the internet and I hardly ever read anything that's not current event, information, or factual related. So long as none of the banned books contain any of those, I really don care.

 

I remember when the book A Wink in Time i think was banned but i dont think that i read a book that was really racist

 

neat little morsel of info...where's waldo was banned somewhere because it contained "dirty things" like the bare backs of sunbathers (as if waldo wasn't hard enough to find:D) and little red riding hood was banned, not cause of eating the granny, but cause of a bottle of wine in the basket. that made me lol. and this info i got from Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader. love those books :D