Censorship
Censorship, a controversial word that has been with us since who knows when. Ancient dictators would burn books because they didn't like them and force people to believe what he did. The question I ask myself though is if censorship in Libraries and schools is justified. My answer is no, and that is what I will try to convince you. Censorship is ridiculous, unfair and selfish, and censors are hypocritical, intolerant, and arrogant. What I mean when I say censorship is ridiculous is exactly that. In Censorship Opposing Viewpoints, it states that the American Heritage Dictionary was banned from Anchorage, Alaska because of words dubbed obscene, like bed, tail, ball, and nut. At first we laugh at it, but we stop when we hear it has also been banned in Cedar City, Indiana, and Eldon, Missouri. % other dictionaries were banned in Texas. These people that ban them call themselves People for Better Education. I thought dictionaries help you learn? An article in Scholastic Update entitled "The Case of the disappearing Books" it says last year there were 338 cases of parents trying to remove books, among these was the classic Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. A teacher was fired because she assigned a book with a lesbian as a main chara
The libraries would then be "family friendly" with parental advisory sections because they feel it is no longer safe for a little kid to walk through a library. They also said how much better everything was when in Public School they taught praying and the bible, back in the old days. This is a religious belief that he can keep at home and in church, but keep it away from school. The Religious Right seems to be forcing their beliefs on us, and we also have freedom of Religion. Guess what, we also have the right to choice and we can choose not to read something if we don't like the content, that doesn't mean we have to force others not to read it. Religious Right people seem to think that if you have a word in your vocabulary such as, academic freedom, analysis, career education, creative writing, human growth, identity, parenting, racism, world view, and self-understanding, there are others but I think this gets all of the human race, you are a secular humanist. The Supreme Court ruled books couldn't be removed because they dislike the ideas in them. In Censorship Opposing Viewpoints the essay by Michael Scott Cane also says Secular humanism causes falling test scores, declining values, lack of Christian morals, poor grammar, situational ethics, and other things they disapprove of. " The Religious Right doesn't agree with ALA's Bill of Rights, which is totally anticensorship.
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