Comments on: Read with your kids for Banned Books Week http://www.gamesanityblog.com/2008/09/28/read-with-your-kids-for-banned-books-week/ Games from a Parental Perspective Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:55:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mike Anderson http://www.gamesanityblog.com/2008/09/28/read-with-your-kids-for-banned-books-week/comment-page-1/#comment-13027 Mike Anderson Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:24:55 +0000 http://www.gamingwithchildren.com/?p=1334#comment-13027 I know she never actually banned books, nor formally requested books be banned. What is factual is that meetings took place between the mayor and head librarian ... during which inquiries were made about book banning 'in rhetorical terms'. Honestly I think people are naive if they believe the line floated that this was purely an academic discussion ... it would be like a former 'right to life' chairman elected governor and asking his staff how they thought anti-abortion legislation would be received ... theoretically , of course. The reason I bring it up isn't for political gain, but rather as a reminder that last year people were burning and banning Harry Potter because they feared it would turn children to the occult and so on. I know she never actually banned books, nor formally requested books be banned. What is factual is that meetings took place between the mayor and head librarian … during which inquiries were made about book banning ‘in rhetorical terms’.

Honestly I think people are naive if they believe the line floated that this was purely an academic discussion … it would be like a former ‘right to life’ chairman elected governor and asking his staff how they thought anti-abortion legislation would be received … theoretically , of course.

The reason I bring it up isn’t for political gain, but rather as a reminder that last year people were burning and banning Harry Potter because they feared it would turn children to the occult and so on.

]]> By: Jordan http://www.gamesanityblog.com/2008/09/28/read-with-your-kids-for-banned-books-week/comment-page-1/#comment-13025 Jordan Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:31:52 +0000 http://www.gamingwithchildren.com/?p=1334#comment-13025 According to snopes.com, the list of books supposedly banned under Sarah Palin is a hoax. However, it is a list of some of the most commonly challenged books. Handy link: http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp I'd never made the connection between the panic over comic books and the overzealous video game critics. It will be interesting to see how this is looked on fifty years from now. According to snopes.com, the list of books supposedly banned under Sarah Palin is a hoax. However, it is a list of some of the most commonly challenged books. Handy link:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp

I’d never made the connection between the panic over comic books and the overzealous video game critics. It will be interesting to see how this is looked on fifty years from now.

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