| Name |
Views and Comments | Date |
| Doglover |
This world is like....crazy....well, mayb not the world..some ppl in our world |
3/6/2005 |
| Rags |
What a crazy world we live in. |
12/9/2004 |
| Sage |
The world reaches a state where we must superficially show how a man and a woman are portrayed able to do one or the other's job, usual task or duty. I know as well as any one else that a man and a woman differ with not only gender. If man is usually the one to do labor, then let him be portrayed as a laborer of whatever sort--wielding, lifting, woodworking, etc. Not to say, "Some women do enjoy jobs as such", but rather, for the most part, men are better able to handle manual labor. Women are better at other things then men also. They are made to feel like their job is unimportant as a man's job. That creates fuel for arguements such as this:
In some school textbooks, boys and men can’t be portrayed as "larger and heavier than women and girls". Men cannot play sports or work with tools.
AND
Women should not be seen as teachers or nurses. They cannot cook or shop, or give hugs and kisses.
It's silly and pretty stupid huh?
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10/15/2003 |
| Iggy Hazard |
Where is the spirit of our Revolutionary forefathers? Where is the rebellious spirit of the Confederacy? It's out there...somewhere.
Why do we allow these tyrannical order-mongers to censor in the first place? The Leviathan has many peons who grovel to any authoritarian who instills enough fear to maintain order which thus results in profit for the internationalist bankers and lawyers who serve the UN and the EU. All politicians, bankers, lawyers, and other assorted suits are snivelling sycophants of the Leviathan and should be dragged out into the streets and executed. |
10/14/2003 |
| . |
skree? |
10/13/2003 |
| DB |
Holy crap. Stupid.
>>The Alabama State Textbook Committee attempted to censor The Diary of Anne Frank in 1983 for being "a real downer"!<<
Yeah, being depressing comes with that whole "horror of genocide" thing.
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10/13/2003 |
| true american |
When I was a kid, the history books told me that after fightin' the evil injuns, Paul Bunyan brought everybody cheeseburgers and thus saved America. As I got older, I was like "Trail of Tears--Wha'happun? Internment camps--no way! McCarthyism? Not in America--you're lyin'!"
What's so special about this? We've been told lies for so long that a nice break from any information at all is a welcomed thing.
I'm off to play Vice City and drink a beer--see you guys in hell!
America was beautiful once. |
10/13/2003 |
| Madcoil |
"Let's burn the bibles and all those who read them..."
That's a lot of people to burn, including all those atheists who keep reading the bible to find some more flaws. Yes, that'd solve our problems. Let's kill off the christians and the atheists. Then we won't have to hear any more stupid boring repetetive arguments about what people believe. (Atheists, I'm looking in your direction)
Freedom of speak IS jack ! If it was my choice, I'd have gotten rid of it ages ago. I'd lay down laws against vegetarians complaining at me when I'm eating meat, against snotty little kids who talk back at their parents and talk tough to strangers. No less than 50 lashes dispensed by the good ole Whip'O'Matic machine. |
10/13/2003 |
| Bongmaster |
For me a banned book = must read. |
10/13/2003 |
| oh |
oh |
10/13/2003 |
| B. S. |
Noooo...I can say Bradbury though. |
10/13/2003 |
| Rinoa Griever |
Bleh... these people seriously need to think about the more important things than just banning books. Freedom of Speech obviously means jack to these people... |
10/13/2003 |
| Napoleon |
"Let's burn bibles and all those who read them. That'll solve all the world's problems."
I have yet to find a better solution to the world's problems than this. |
10/13/2003 |
| Madcoil |
Reading your comments, I find that you've all got the gay. Burning evil books is good for the soul. The repentant soul, that is, as non-christian people don't have much soul to begin with. And Garfield is a pussy.
And yes, there are evil books. Let's not forget the "Negronomicon", and the "Bob Finds a Ball". Evil!
Readers, Repent! |
10/13/2003 |
| Tootie Frootie |
Let's burn bibles and all those who read them. That'll solve all the world's problems. |
10/13/2003 |
| phil |
I say we make our children walk around with earplugs and blindfolds. We must protect them from the real world at all costs! |
10/13/2003 |
| John Ashcroft |
How dare you question the need to burn books? Your liberal hippy attitude is Unamerican and will not be tolerated. Dangerous opinions and ideas like Evolution, Democracy, Freedom and Islam must be stamped out now once for all! |
10/12/2003 |
| Bobo |
Pray for world peace. Or ice cream.
Fukit, eat a healthy snack. Move along - nothing happening here. |
10/12/2003 |
| Steve |
grandpa bought a rubber |
10/12/2003 |
| goober |
Once I had a secret and I let it in a crowd. The crowd that was a speckle became hard and soft and loud. They crippled down the pavement as my secret slowly grew, so I unzipped my blue trousers and I took a little poo! |
10/12/2003 |
| Boner |
I have a WMD in my pants (Weener of Massive Dimension) |
10/12/2003 |
| political rebel |
There is a secret plot to make money off of the war in iraq. Already it is starting. I know things that the American people don't know. I'm going to publish them and spread it accross the country so people can know the truth about what George Bush is doing to us!! Please help!! |
10/12/2003 |
| Richard Nixon |
I heard a rumor that Bill Clinton is a cooler president than George Bush. I heard that George Bush is dumber than Dan Quayle. He says things wrong, and he's not funny. He also cannot speak extemporaneously. He has a hard time making full sentences, and I heard that he goes to a language coach. Imagine that!! A grown man who is president going to a language coach because he's too much of a southern hick to speak properly. Why do we tolerate this assumed ignorance in our country? |
10/12/2003 |
| Bill Clinton |
I have proof that George Bush is a homosexual. I have photos on the innernet. |
10/12/2003 |
| EJF |
My name is Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yaht. |
10/12/2003 |
| dude1 |
I saw a Garfiled book, "Nine Lives", banned becasue it talked about reincarnation, which is against the teachings in the Bible.
Just freaking wow. Can you believe the gall? |
10/12/2003 |
| nigger bob |
Just another example of whitie holdin' me back! |
10/12/2003 |
| Nobody |
Jesus freaks suck. That is all.
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10/12/2003 |
| hate |
The real banned books are not here.
They are mostly about Jews |
10/12/2003 |
| D McNeese |
Political correctness is in itself becoming an oppressive force even though the idea behind it is to somewhat liberate the oppresses. Oh well, the government is the bourgeoisie and polical correctness has become yet another tool of theirs to control free thinking. |
10/12/2003 |
| austin |
Uncle Toms Cabin was banned by the Pope. |
10/12/2003 |
| Joe |
> Tarzan of the Apes was removed from the Los Angeles Public Library in 1929, because the Ape-man and his companion Jane were "living in sin". <
An especially stupid example because in the books (as opposed to the films) John Clayton (Lord Greystoke, "Tarzan") and Jane Porter were married. The religious ceremony was performed by Jane's own father, a university professor who was also an ordained minister.
BTW, I don't see any examples of actual book "burning" in this list. That one school system or library (stupidly) elects not to carry a book is not the same as that book's being burned, or even totally banned. As long as Borders and Amazon exist, and as long as other people have books, chances are I can still get my hands on this "forbidden" literature.
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10/12/2003 |
| Rawdrawers |
Mike schould be burned, for religious intolerance |
10/12/2003 |
| Still right |
Oh yeah, and its sad that some atheists and agnostics (the ones that join the club like a christian bearing a star of David for respect in law school) turn evolution into a religion. These holier-than-now nerds that try to grab fame by making bs assumptions using their flawed reasoning make this world harder to convert from Godism. Freakin' nerds! (On the mood, nerds have their pants pulled down and they are SPANKED with moonrocks.) |
10/12/2003 |
| mike |
Religion should be burned! It corrupts our minds and tells us to worship unseen entities. Viva La France! |
10/12/2003 |
| Dude, I'm right |
Religions a necessary evil, in my opinion; or, at least it was.
Also, the definition of evolution is: A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form.
Its sad that ppl refute this. Very, very sad. |
10/12/2003 |
| Look Behind You |
The greatest threat is from the Am. left, not the right. There’s not a single damned victicrat who has ever properly defined what or who is the 'Religious Right.' Religious folk may be uptight, but unlike goons on the left, they're not totally bereft of values, moral relativists in a crumbling world. |
10/12/2003 |
| shawnee |
yet people dont mind that every history book ever made for school is packed with what gods everyone worshiped and worships and every book (bibles) they worshped. can we say brainwashing |
10/12/2003 |
| I Like Pie |
I Like Pie |
10/12/2003 |
| Ross Lincoln |
Don't forget, in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, among other states, science textbooks are often required to include disclamiers which wrongly insist that Evolutionary biology is an untested and "controversial" theory, when in fact it's only controversial to people who wish to take the bible literally.
Furthermore, the Texas Republican Party Platform openly calls for the teaching of the Book of Genesis as Fact in Science and history classes.
Orwell indeed... |
10/12/2003 |
| Dinkadoo (Fark) |
Many bookstores and libraries in the US have a week or month set aside to educate the public about this travesty...."Celebrate freedom, read a banned book" was the old war cry this year it's "Open your mind to a banned book." I buy, read, and hoard banned books. I give banned books as gifts, the list of banned titles is AMAZING don't know if I'm allowed to link, but here goes: http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Intellectual_Freedom3/
Banned_Books_Week/Banned_Books_Week.htm |
10/12/2003 |
| Asynchron |
Bantam: I don't think the creator of Fark is an idiot....but maybe that's just me. |
10/12/2003 |
| Bantam |
Drew is a 'farking' idiot. These are liberals & catholics blocking these books - one was the Bible!
So quick to blame everything on religion. You're an idiot. |
10/12/2003 |
| Iain |
A guy called Wilhelm Reich had all his books burned and was sent to prison (where he died) because the authorities thought his book were lies. Ok, so he was trying to prove that an unseen energy called 'orgone' was all around us and this was the basis of mans pyschological problems. A bit far out i agree. But, they just burned his books and sent him to prison. This was 50 years ago, if some people did not buy and keep a few of his books his life would have been wasted.
Scary huh! |
10/12/2003 |
| False Prophet |
C'mon guys. We Americans™ aren't too bad when you consider that we're a country by religious zealots, for religious zealots. |
10/12/2003 |
| gene h |
read the langauge police by diane rativich for the more censorship details |
10/12/2003 |
| woof |
I can say George Orwell.. but I won't! |
10/12/2003 |
| Xaignar |
How dare you question the author!?!?
You'll all be sent off to room 101! |
10/12/2003 |
| Moo |
George Orwell |
10/12/2003 |
| Dawn |
For those of you who doubt the validity of this article, I have read these same things from at least 1 or 2 other sources in the past. There is a book, I think it's called "100 banned books" or something similar, that list all of these. I have always found the practice of burning books hilarious because of fact that in order to burn the books, they must first buy them...giving profits to the publisher and author. Really, who do they think they are hurting? Only their pockets. |
10/12/2003 |
| no spin |
censorship is not a left or right issue. extremeists on either end of the political spectrum wants to shut those with differing (or obscene) ideas up. its not only the religious right conservative, its also the politically correct liberal. only "moderates" can makae up their own minds. |
10/12/2003 |
| J.O.Swackhammer |
I too would like to see where this list came from. Although I don't doubt some of them...in the last 5 years or so (unfortunately I don't have the source either) a woman successfully sued her estranged husband utilizing the out-dated cohabitation law that was still on the books in her state. The censorship described as "based on a Readers Digest article" doesn't at all surprise me. Children's text books have been censored for years! Seemingly in an effort to present history in a neutral format with hopes of not tainting their fresh young minds. In fact, it could have exactly the opposite effect; banning or censoring liturature only creates gaps in our intellect, sometimes called "ignorance", which can lead to beliefs or ideas that, historically speaking, have already failed to advance our society. I think our culture actually begins to regress. Without learning the lessons of time how can we move on and evolve into the intellectual creatures we are destined to become? There is an interesting paradox here: We take away the things we deem "vulgar" or "inappropriate" so we can protect young minds, yet when we want to make a point we cram life's ugliness down the throats of anybody with eyes or ears. Mass media spreads the message of "don't do drugs" and "don't commit crime" in graphic detail. Has it helped? Has censoring liturature that is not malicious but only presents a different opinion ever bettered our society? Shell Silverstein aside, have we ever uncovered a plot to poison the minds of our youth with deceptively innocent stories about everyday people doing everyday things? Or has it just made us paranoid?
P.S. Am I being censored because the box where I type my name does not allow enough characters for me to spell it all out? |
10/12/2003 |
| LongSinceAware |
There's that new book The Language Police by that woman whose name I can't remember. I'm willing to bit you'll find stuff there on this. Read it.
And before you even try, the "Right" is every bit as responsible as the "Left" for censorship. Hence why book-burning is seen as a "Righty" vourse of action. |
10/12/2003 |
| Drew (Fark) |
Religous Right ruins everything |
10/12/2003 |
| Wydok |
Huck Finn gets challeneged a lot for its use of "nigger" but this is the first time I heard it being banned for the word "sweat." |
10/12/2003 |
| Republican |
I believe everything Rush Limbaugh says and anything I read on the internet. |
10/12/2003 |
| Skeptical |
I'm not one to defend book burners or censorers, but this list reads like total bull. I'd like to see sources. |
10/12/2003 |
