{"id":15881,"date":"2014-12-28T11:52:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=15881"},"modified":"2015-01-04T08:26:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:26:32","slug":"you-cant-read-that-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=15881","title":{"rendered":"You Can’t Read That!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups.<\/p>\n

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YCRT! News<\/strong><\/p>\n

Banned in Tucson\u2122 author Patricia Williams<\/a> takes on the rising tide of academic book bannings,\u00a0firings, and the growing disregard for scholarship in the USA.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the growing disregard for scholarship,\u00a0Rush Limbaugh<\/a> supports replacing the teaching of actual history with the teaching of American exceptionalism. Would you be surprised to learn\u00a0he has a financial stake in the textbook business?<\/p>\n

The conservative school board members in Gilbert, Arizona who voted to cut pages out of a high school honors biology textbook have formally agreed to hand over\u00a0their scissors<\/a>. Score one for the good people of Gilbert, who voted them out of office, and\u00a0School Superintendent Christina Kishimoto, who refused to pull the book and fought the board every step of the way.<\/p>\n

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In Richmond, Virginia, another worrisome attempt at censorship<\/a> in local schools. While\u00a0not outright book-banning, requiring teachers to get parental permission before teaching certain books or showing certain documentaries, will likely have the same effect.<\/p>\n

Clearly everyone has heard about the briefly-withdrawn movie The Interview<\/em>, so I won’t recap that story here. This is not the first time Hollywood has censored itself<\/a>, and it likely won’t be the last. Remember that movie where the teenaged girl gets an abortion and is happy she did? Me neither.<\/p>\n

Also, this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[Kim Jong Un’s]\u00a0actions emulate those of hard-left feminists, radical Muslims, university administrators, and others who seek to prevent the publication or distribution of material they deem offensive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Worth a look:\u00a0Fat Angie\u00a0<\/i>author e.E. Charlton-Trujillo<\/a> talks about\u00a0censorship.<\/p>\n

Ending on a happy note:\u00a0The Miseducation of Cameron Post<\/em>\u00a0will remain on\u00a0the shelves<\/a> of Sussex Central High School Library in Georgetown, Delaware, after the school district board president abandoned his campaign to have the book banned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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