The Ban

If none of you have been to bookslut you should go and check it out.  Thanks to the McCartys for having the link on their blog.  On this site their is a list of books that have been banned and/or protested from schools, public libraries, and stores.  They were banned mainly due to parental complaints that contained things like, "It talks about masturbation", "There are gay people in it", "It promotes evolution, so we need a creationistic book to couple it", "It talks about abuse" (this is a story about apartheid), "there are sexual references in it", "It makes my weenie get hard alot".  Just kidding...okay half kidding.  A couple of things.

1) Why the hell to people feel like everything they read or their children read will lead to the practice of these things.  If that is the case then these people who are protesting these books (It wouldn't surprise me if these people were religious conservatives of the Christian brand) shouldn't ever let their kids read the bible, the newspaper, medical pamphlets, watch the news, or do anything that might give them access to an alternative or sexual viewpoint.  (We should take them out of public schools too, you know the whole evolution thing.  Sure it might turn them into social freaks, but what a small price to pay for the passing on of our religious/political views to our children) But then you are not giving them media, you are giving them propaganda.  You have ceased to educate and are now indoctrinating.  Which we have all scene from the history of the world that this leads to ignorance, fear, hate, violence, and in some cases war and usually in that order.  But these are all good things. . .right? 

2)  As most of you know my hero John Stewart had his book banned from Wal-Mart stores.  Wal-Mart, however, is continuing to sell this book online because, "Online shoppers are different from in-store shoppers".  Well of course they are different, if by different you mean they shop online.  This is trivially true and it confirms to me what I have wanted to believe for some time now, WAL-MART IS A WHORE!  They saw the cash cow and needed to milk it somehow.  So they grabbed it by the cyber utters and started stroking.  If you can't go in from the front side, go in from the back.  If. . . you get the point.

Comments

[Brandon]

I hope that I can say that I've helped to contribute to this belief that Walmart is a whore. ;)

[Adam]

You were definately one of the main catalylst for this. I just needed something to push me over the edge, and you don't fuck with Jon Stewart biiiiaaaaatch.