a powerful tool
3 December 07, 10:19 am
Filed under: censorship, quotes and stuff

Kudos to the Evening Sun online (Greater Hanover/Gettysburg) for publishing this look at censorship.

I would doubt the Littlestown parents in question actually read the entirety of the book they were challenging; all of their claims sound suspiciously like hollow reactionary rhetoric - the kind you usually find hovering around anything sexual…or relevant, for that matter.

I particularly like the earnest, unpretentious opening paragraph:

Censorship is such a powerful tool, it’s almost hard to imagine anyone willing to wield it. Hard to imagine anyone believing they have that kind of moral authority.

A simple, most eloquent defense of intellectual freedom if I’ve ever heard one.


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