Book Banning in America

I thought you guys, had Freedom of Speech, enshrined in your Constitution?

Just a humble Aussie, here, asking: Why?





Please Explain...
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What is there to explain. We have ratings for appropriate audiences for different movies too. dunno comic books here have had approval ratings for children since the mid 20th century too. Maybe you'd like to see the usa crumble like rome italy did during its fall?
I understand the books:

1984 (George Orwell)

And

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

Are banned, what are the reasons, for this? These are world books, regarded as great literature, and as modern classics


dunno


confused
I agree to some extent. Like some things children shouldn't be reading, of course ...and shouldn't have access to. Don't misunderstand me. But some books have been removed from the general population for the most ridiculous reasons. dunno
And btw, don't attack the blogmeister, here, I want some kind of reasoned debate, if such a thing is actually possible, here


wave
To each their own but leave children alone. Now, What do they have to do with alphabet people?
I dont see you have any subject to debate. The woke and alphabet people know that most adults don't buy into their sheet so they target children today because children are easily mislead.
Btw, have you even heard of these books, let alone actually read them?


confused
THESE particular books

You are really showing your junior high school level of education, here...
Huxley, and Orwell, you idiot!
Did you tell me once that 5+5=1. Ok, what ever you say. Hosta la vista wave
You are actually PROUD of your ignorance too!

Well, I've really seen it all now




wave
Enter Mc Bob

At last some common sense!


rolling on the floor laughing
Sorry Bob


cool
5 n 5 do equal 1...{ .but only among the $cientists
..as 10 .is just starting the count anew..
$0 to speak..

5 years ahead of Time. )..3rd bardo
...first strike is deadly. ) . testament
4 minute warning. ) . Owen.
rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
Now, you guys are doing the banning. I'm merely asking, why?

Suddenly, I'm attacked, as an "alphabet" person. This makes no logical sense, whatsoever

I'm asking, why, a wide range of books are being banned? Many being for "grown ups" they are available in most public libraries, all around the free world, I'm asking WHY?

Not just the "alphabet" stuff
wave
Now youse all, I'm off to get some sleep. I'll be back in the morning, to see if America has sorted itself out. Please behave yourself, whilst I'm away!





scold
What I'm implying...
..my go to C word sites R going to be banned..
..it's only a matter of Time.

Thus far I've spied 2 movies set in 2024..
..the first one featured crude 5 gee references .[ Made in 62..] ..and the population was being thinned
Due to sterility...they also had a mutant/ Zombie class of low lifes..
..the other one, the Batman...is being covered now
..over @ Enterthestars... NYC .is flooded on Nov. 6 2024...in the plot line..
It could be a blessing in disguise. They're giving out free copies of 1984 on Amazon I do believe banking on the idea that people can't read. I mean technically they can, but they can't concentrate which is to say they can't understand the book. A thinking fascist wouldn't need to ban the book because you can't read. Perhaps banning the book is the way a dumb fascist gets found out.
And I can explain the smugness because until the turn of the century we had good reason. People in positions of power used to know what they're talking about. It's only the newness of this century that renders them like a toddler trying to get beetroot out of a jar, an environment that's never happened in the whole of human history is what they claim to be experts on. It's ridiculous to respect today's authorities, it'll be at least 50 years before anyone actually does understand like the French revolution.
There are far to many stats in this modern day such as what should be banned, another big waste of money/time is mid term elections in the US;; doing this on a regular basis must chew through some cash..
Thankyou, for those lucid and incisive, comments, CC...
I myself, wonder if the Huxley/Orwell books are banned because the too closely resemble the dystopian future, being inflicted on us; by the powers that be? , and a "future" that begins to resemble the truth of these books, in many ways (particularly Orwell's 1984), as the years roll on....






dunno
(sp)
Thanks for the comments, others, also. Please try to keep the comments logical, and lucid. AND please REMEMBER it's not MY FAULT, that this stuff is happening, I'm merely the OP of this blog, who wants to know WHY!



wave
@op keep in mind that A Clockworld Orange was rated R19 for many years here in Australia - so I had to wait until my son's 19th birthday to go and see it there in George St. R19??? I recall too buying Lady Chatterley's Lover in a brown paper bag in NZ so many years ago too.
@ Fargo,

But they don't seem to have moved on from those times, and THAT'S what worries me!

Anyway, reality calls, so going offline, to launch into another glorious day, in Oz...

Thanks for the comments





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AND, I'm NOT advocating the peddling of "alphabet stuff", to children, either. Show me ONE of my postings, on this blog, where I have actually said that; (hint: save your time, you won't find anything)....

In actuality, some of that stuff,(the worst excesses of it); SHOULD be banned/restricted (in my humble opinion).....

What I am saying, is why must some of the world's Modern Classics, be banned for ADULTS?

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(This, by the way is Cancel Culture, at it's worse)...

It's also laughable, and patently ridiculous, since these books of Modern Literature, can be readily sourced, by shopping on that funny global thing, we have called "the Internet"


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So, finally, the question, I ask, is: WHY in modern America, must...

Children be treated like Adults

And

Adults be treated like Children???


dunno


confused
One look at the leaders of the political party's answer that question, as only children would vote for such pathetic men.
And, while I'm at it....

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World





Educate yourselves!!!





professor
and it's only getting worse. sad
@op Aldous Huxley - the scene that sticks in my mind is from Eyeless in Gaza - the dog thrown from the plane - kersplunk. Almost 70 years since I read it but there is the memory! Far more vivid than the Alphas and Betas
Here from a vanished hero of mine:
Have read the link in your op, Lovely, I've just ordered a copy of Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe.

I'll let you know what all the fuss is about.
Probably this is more what you are looking for




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NATO treaties and say is being taken more seriously than the US constitution in the US at the moment, now NATO is over riding the US domestic politics and needs..

The lack of informing the US people is another problem on top of the silence of the people..
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