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Top Banned Books of 2003
michaelzhao writes "The ALA (American Library Association) recently published the new 100 most frequently banned books list of 2003.
Of the banned books, Harry Potter was in the number 7th place in the most frequently banned. Also included were 'Where's Waldo' and 'The Giver' along with 'Goosebumps' and 'How to Eat Fried Worms.' These books were banned from various public institutions. This means that they were banned from various public libraries and public schools around the nation. (private schools, libraries, and institutions of higher learning don't count) The ALA encourages the people of the United States to fight against the book bans and read a banned book today!"
I'd guess that he'd claim that they died of illness, malnutrition, and exposure. Survivors reported people dying that way, and reported conditions in which that would be expected.
I wouldn't be too surprised if the stories of Nazis slaughtering Jews are all made up by people who couldn't believe that 12 million people could die from poor conditions, and who wanted to believe that the Nazi camps were qualitatively (as opposed to only quantitatively) worse than the American ones. Showers that gas people really sounds like something you'd come up with when you're expecting something specifically deadly, and don't find anything.
But why would any Jews have survived after reaching the camps, let alone survived long enough to be rescued, if the camps were actually designed specifically to kill groups of people together and suddenly? Why would they build sneaky devices to kill people with when they could kill them simply by failing to provide adaquately for them? Occam's Razor suggests that the way that eyewitnesses report people dying, if sufficient, was the only way people died.
Not, of course, that this excuses anything; if anything, being starved and worked to death is a worse fate than poison gas. But it does mean that we can't think of the Nazis as being crazy and inexplicable people doing things we know we wouldn't do. Sure, the Nazis were evil, but don't think they were overtly evil. There is only so much most people are capable of as far as things that are obviously wrong. But people are capable of much worse things that aren't obviously wrong. If we don't recognize this, we risk justifying another Holocaust simply by telling outselves we aren't gassing people in showers.
When we sold "Last Temptation of Christ, some Christians boycotted, some urged others to boycott, and some wrote letters to the newspapers.
And when they tried to put niggers in the white schools, it was Christians who put bombs in black churches and murdered little girls (you can find that information in a book.) And when white trash sluts claimed they were raped by niggers, it was white Christian men who lynched them without a trial (you can find that information in a book.) And when gay men are brutally murdered, it's because the Bible says being gay is a sin (you can find that in a book also.)
Thank your lucky stars that contributing to the retardedness of the world isn't a crime, because you're a center of anti-intelligence.
No Christian church has the right to control what's in a public state school. This is in stark contrast to Islamic control of schools in certain mideast nations.
This is complete bullshit. This is exactly how things have -actually- been conducted in American history despite laws to the contrary. Why did we even fucking HAVE the Scopes Monkey Trial? It was because THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WAS CONTROLLING WHAT WAS IN A PUBLIC STATE SCHOOL. Fucking Christ on a pogo stick, and you used to work in a bookstore? Let me recommend that you READ a BOOK once in awhile.