Censorship

A detailed Summary of 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 last point is ever so true. Censors are the most arrogant, hypocritical, intolerant people ever. 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. " It is destroying the family, wrecking society, and wiping out the minds of children." I don't see this happening. They also said how much better everything was when in Public School they taught praying and the bible, back in the old days. I don't think so. A problem is that there is no compromise; there are no neutral parties. In "The Religious Right Hits Libraries" Karen Jo Gounaud says there is too much material that undermines "traditional values" and "traditional family." The term traditional is outdated, many families are single parents, or parents of the same sex, or have family problems. They cannot solve all problems by forcing beliefs on you. They think if you do not have their beliefs you will corrupt society, but look at me, I have no religious beliefs, do I corrupt society? The Religious Right also says the Liberal Left censors and undermines education, how hypocritical is that? Who is to say whose moral beliefs are correct, with censorship you are saying with absolute certainty that your are, and not being tolerant of others.

cter. A parent, Ruth Somoro, said this was being intolerant of religious beliefs, and schools aren

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