04-20-2013, 10:36 AM
(04-19-2013, 10:02 AM)Duchess Wrote:
Not that I would be aware of this but I never knew that Little Red Riding Hood was banned from schools because there is a bottle of wine in the basket.
That PSA is really misleading, but technically accurate.
The extreme conservatives who push for book bans are more puzzling to me than the liberals who push for extreme gun control measures.
Some head-shakers:
Charles Perrault's "Little Red Riding Hood" was banned from a school district or two in California because of the wine in the basked for Grandma. Mitchell's Gone with the Wind too, because of its depiction of slavery, and Scarlett's immoral behavior.
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was banned by a Minnesota school district because of Scout's sorta/kinda swearing. Also banned by a district in Texas because the subject matter conflicted with community values.
Shakespeare's play, Twelfth Night, was banned in New Hampshire because it violated the law prohibiting talking about alternative lifestyles and homosexuality in schools (the ship wrecked heroine dresses as a boy for a point, falls in love with a boy, and it becomes a love story: Shakespeare in Love style.)
Dahl's James and The Giant Peach was banned in several districts because of references to magical experiences, drugs and alcohol. Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn also banned in several states/districts due to the alleged immorality of the characters....
Classics that I've read with all of my nieces and nephews (except Twelfth Night) that have been banned from schools or libraries at some point. STUPID.
I'd like to use the book banning brigade as target practice (I only have a water pistol).
The MOMS DEMAND ACTION PSAs get me annoyed thinking about what has been banned from schools, not about the fact that guns aren't banned on a federal level. That's why I think the ads are ignorant and ineffective (unless I'm less representative of a good deal of the population than I think).