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Post by cheese007 on Jan 30, 2010 16:50:19 GMT -5
Shhhhh! Don't give them any ideas!
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Post by darthtoxic on Jan 30, 2010 17:47:21 GMT -5
I've read more sexual things than that in my science book as a kid. They gonna ban biology too? When I was in second grade, a kid in my class who wanted to be a doctor brought in a biology book for show-and-tell and got in trouble with the teachers because it had diagrams of reproductive organs. True story.
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Post by Sleepy on Jan 30, 2010 18:15:22 GMT -5
Fuck you, Virginia. Fuck you for being so fucking immature. Fuck you for depriving the students of Anne Frank's Diary. Fuck you for fucking everything all to hell. Fuck you, fucking fuckers.
FUCK YOU.
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Post by MaybeNever on Jan 30, 2010 18:21:43 GMT -5
Sleepy, I don't really feel like that's appropriate language here. "Hell." Really. Tsk tsk.
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Post by chad sexington on Jan 30, 2010 21:26:59 GMT -5
FFS. EVERY girl wonders the same thing. Next they'll probably ban Are You There God, It's Me Margaret (which I've never read but I do know what it's about). Oh wait, it has God in it so they probably wouldn't. >.< That's been banned on and off for the last thirty-five years.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Jan 30, 2010 22:00:42 GMT -5
Even in this day and age books are still being banned.
Shows where we're going as a civilization.
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Post by canadian mojo on Jan 30, 2010 22:34:07 GMT -5
Even in this day and age books are still being banned. Shows where we're going as a civilization. Even better, we're banning a book that is an authentic first-hand account of someone living under the regime of some of the the most notorious book burners in history.
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Post by Aqualung on Jan 30, 2010 22:35:03 GMT -5
What's it about & why would they ban it? From what little I remember, Margaret's parents raised her so that she could make her own choice in religion/beliefs. Her mom's parents are crazy Protestants, her dad's mom is an overbearing Jewish woman, and each of her friends believe something different, so she tries a little of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, etc. services and tries to feel God. And ends up a little disappointed. For some reason I also remember something about "practicing kissing boys by using pillows!". It also has to do with the title character hitting puberty and being curious about her body, so I hear.
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Post by Aqualung on Jan 30, 2010 22:37:33 GMT -5
Vaginas are a more mature subject than the mass extermination of an ethnic minority apparently. Of course!! Violence is totally OK! Can't have enough of it! Let our kids be exposed to murders and abuse on TV. But sex, an act of love (usually)? See a nude, completely natural human body?? EVIL! WRONG! BAD!! BAN! etc etc...*Barf*
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Jan 30, 2010 22:38:30 GMT -5
Even in this day and age books are still being banned. Shows where we're going as a civilization. Even better, we're banning a book that is an authentic first-hand account of someone living under the regime of some of the the most notorious book burners in history. Invoking Godwin's Law seems oddly appropiate right now.
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Post by clockworkgirl21 on Jan 30, 2010 23:03:13 GMT -5
Forget the fact that the last few years of Anne's life were terrible. Forget that she was torn apart from her family and never saw them again. Forget that she was stripped of her rights as a human beings.
She thought about a vagina!
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Jan 30, 2010 23:44:09 GMT -5
Gotta love them human beings.
Mass atrocities, countless deaths, unspeakable acts against humanity, a girl thinking about a vagina... Jesus Christ!
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Post by ironbite on Jan 31, 2010 0:44:47 GMT -5
Calm down folks...it's in Culpepper. It's not like it's a smart part of the state.
Ironbite-this book has always been challenged because parents are stupid.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Jan 31, 2010 1:07:54 GMT -5
There's a smart part of Virginia?
Outstanding.
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Post by ironbite on Jan 31, 2010 1:13:16 GMT -5
Yes...Northern VA.
Ironbite-it's the smartest part of the state...and I'm from it.
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