{"id":5483,"date":"2011-02-26T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2011-02-26T14:36:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T21:36:47","slug":"banned-book-news-roundup-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=5483","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Here’s an excellent summary<\/a> of the growing power of organized book-banning groups.\u00a0 The internet helps us, but it helps them too!<\/p>\n

I usually limit these book-banning digests to news to from North America, but this article on international book-banning<\/a> is too interesting not to share.<\/p>\n

The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/em> has been challenged again, this time in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Feminists upset with certain fairy tales for not being feminist<\/a>?\u00a0 Excuse me, but isn’t that rather the norm for fairy tales?<\/p>\n

Remember those New Hampshire parents who wanted the book Nickel and Dimed<\/em> banned<\/a> from their son’s high school reading list?\u00a0 Now they’re after Water for Elephants<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 And what’s worse?\u00a0 The high school caved to them in both cases!<\/p>\n

Those same new Hampshire parents would love this new Tennessee school policy<\/a>: any given book is to be pulled from school library shelves on an “emergency” basis upon receipt of a single parental complaint.<\/p>\n

“Is it okay to run an illegal library from my locker at school?”<\/a> Even though this letter seems phony, you have to admire the spirit behind it!<\/p>\n

Yup, sounds like a description of sex<\/a> to me … but is it pornographic?\u00a0 Hardly.<\/p>\n

If we can insist libraries remain open to all books and all ideas, can we also insist they ban certain groups from using their facilities for meetings?\u00a0 A squirm-inducing dilemma<\/a>, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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