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[cedarlibrarian]

Happy birthday,
ashfae

Tomorrow I'm swapping friendslists with affectedmangoo, so everyone be good. I think I will bore her heinously with the many LIS feeds, though.

Censorship link of the day: The Giver challenged in Kansas City. This I love:

Although he could not speak specifically about The Giver, Peter Sprigg, a senior director with the conservative Family

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[boniblithe]

It took me a half a day to read it (it's somewhat dry LOL). Funny, that it's about a restrictive society that lies to its populace.

[nostrademons]

Somewhat dry? Never!

(The Giver is my all-time favorite book. Only time I could imagine it takng a half day to read was when I read it in Spanish. Other than that, I must have read it at least a dozen times, and it typically takes me 1-2 hours.)

Funny, too, that in the Giver, only a kid had the courage to change society, while this guy says that kids can't understand concepts like free speech.

[psychic_serpent]

This is just vintage FRC crap. I wish they'd just call themselves FRU instead (Fascists R Us) and be done with it. (But then they'd be honest with the public, and we can't have THAT, can we?) They aren't even being honest when they call "free access to ideas" an "adult concept;" the truth is that FRC doesn't want anyone, anywhere to think for themselves or have free access to ideas that aren't "approved" by the FRC. It's just easier to sell people on the idea that kids can't "handle" free access to ideas

[cedarlibrarian]

You'll love this.

[psychic_serpent]

Yeah, Cosgrove is backpeddling NOW because he's discovering how not-PC it is to try to make women who've miscarried into criminals. I have no confidence that the original intent was not to try to include women who might have self-aborted and claimed to have miscarriages; the execution of the bill is as bad as those ignoramuses who wrote anti-marriage bills and tried to claim that they weren't outlawing civil unions when the bills specifically SAID THAT THEY WERE.

Am so tired of the Right doing the equivalent of saying that the sky is green, as though it really is just because they say so. IT IS NOT SO. Argh.

[ceilidh]

Fifth graders at my school read The Giver. I don't like the book becuase I think the ending is a rip off, but I certainly won't protest my kid reading it when she gets there. O_o

[affectedmangoo]

Im having fun with your flist, pretty make-up!

[ex_fastertha931]

I love how children are supposed to be sheltered and cosseted and protected from anything that might besmirch their tender innocence...and then when they reach the magical age of eighteen or thereabouts, they are expected to be full-fledged, rational adults with fleshed-out critical thinking skills and the ability to make difficult decisions.

Where the hell do these parents think their kids are going to learn to think from? The magical box in the bedroom?

*dies*