Sinister: Book banning/Degrassi Jr. High/etc.

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actually, nothing bookwise has been banned in the US (including it's
Southern region) in quite some time.  There's a difference between not
stocking certain books in grade school libraries and actually "banning"
them, and your misconceptions of the South are just as ill-informed and
obnoxious as you accuse them of being.  You want to examine a
country/culture that in recent times actually bans artwork because it's
citizens supposedly couldn't handle it?  Then meet me in London to watch
Clockwork Orange, the Exorcist, and The Evil Dead.  Oh wait, you
can't....Those films are banned/illegal.



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>From: Brandt Fundak <bfundak at xxx.org>
>To: sinister at Majordomo.net
>Subject: Sinister: Book banning/Degrassi Jr. High/etc.
>Date: Mon, Oct 18, 1999, 9:14 AM
>

>
>Someone posted that as late as the 1980s books were being banned in this
>country.  Try as late as Oct. 18th 1999.  Books are constantly being
>banned in the US South, and I think this shows what the real issue
>is--that people who read tend to be the ones who are well informed and
>question the world around them.  I'm rather shocked that the Harry Potter
>(wasn't that a character on MASH?) books are catching shit, as they don't
>seem to be all that deep, but then again it is the American way to dictate
>how other people should live their lives. My mom's boyfriend does it all
>the time. (I'm not going there)  I bet it's because the author is from
>Scotland--Pat Robertson warned us how Scotland has all of those
>homosexuals.  Now I guess we are finally starting to listen. Please. I am
>starting to get really sick of American Moral Righteousness. No wonder I
>am so sour on Christianity.
>
>Let's talk about Degrassi for a second.  I have been wishing lately that
>they would put this back on the air. When I was in my teen years I never
>watched Degrassi (I watched 15 however, which featured the actor who now
>plays Berg on Two Guys and a Girl) but had I just sit down to the telly
>not 30 minutes earlier every saturday I could have watched it.
>Unfortunately at the time I viewed Degrassi as an impedement to my
>watching Doctor Who which I watched religiously. How I regret the
>impetuousness of my youth.
>
>John K. is going to hate me for this, but I have been trying to get this
>Marine Research LP to warm up to me, and all I can think is how much
>better the earlier Heavenly stuff is. I like it, but I just think that the
>best days may be behind them.
>
>I heard the greatest radio show the other night on WOBC Oberlin College
>Radio. Unfortunately that was the same night my Mom went to the emergency
>room. So I never really got to express my appreciation.  So if you do a
>show on OBC from 10-midnight on Thursdays--Great work. I'll be listening.
>
>Thanks again to all of the people who sent me e-mail of support. You guys
>are great. 
>
>Brandt
>
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