{"id":16942,"date":"2015-07-20T12:42:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16942"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T18:24:29","slug":"you-cant-read-that-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16942","title":{"rendered":"You Can’t Read That!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You Can\u2019t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups.<\/p>\n

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

With Harper Lee’s re-emergence on the literary scene, people are once again talking about her famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>. Predictably, some of those people think the book<\/a>, and at least one high school production of a play based on the book<\/a>, should be suppressed.<\/p>\n

Here’s some news about a failed effort\u00a0to ban disturbing posters of clowns<\/a>. While I’m totally opposed to banning books, I\u00a0fully endorse the banning of clowns.<\/p>\n

Administrators force a\u00a0public school library to pull copies of a graphic novel from its shelves after a single verbal complaint from a parent, short-circuiting their own formal review process<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Public library in Texas stands up to conservative parents<\/a> who wanted two LGBT-themed books removed from its children’s collection.<\/p>\n

I didn’t know that Ray Bradbury’s publisher, Ballentine Books, for years only sold a bowdlerized version of Fahrenheit 451<\/em><\/a>. Apparantly Bradbury didn’t know either, and was furious when he found out.<\/p>\n

Disturbing if true<\/a>: “In just four years, the percentage of Americans who believe there are any books that should be banned has increased by more than half: 28% believe this to be the case today, vs. 18% in 2011.”<\/p>\n

The mayor of Venice, Italy, has officially banned school books addressing homosexuality and disability<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Fivethirtyeight blog\u00a0questions the statistical validity<\/a> of the American Library Association’s list of most-banned books, complaining that the ALA won’t share its data. Here is ALA’s response<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trigger warnings<\/a>: Judy Blume laments that many on the left are now pushing censorship with the same zeal as the 1980s religious right.<\/p>\n

Columbia University agrees<\/a> with Ms Blume: it will combat censorship by not requiring professors to issue trigger warnings about class materials. It did, however, remove Ovid’s\u00a0Metamorphoses<\/em><\/a> from one class reading list, a book that triggered\u00a0sensitive fee-fees<\/a> in some students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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