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Library of Congress Opens Records of Anti-Comic Book Shrink
eldavojohn writes "Some light is being shone on comic book history today as the Library of Congress opens up the 222 boxes of a German psychiatrist's evidence and papers against comic books. Dr. Fredric Wertham is well known by comic book fans as the author of Seduction of the Innocent, a bestselling book linking comic books and juvenile delinquency — leading to a full blown congressional investigation (some say witch hunt) of the comic book industry. Wertham was long involved with criminal trials before campaigning against comic books and promoting industry and government censorship for children. Ars adds a little more context for the younger crowd and notes that he later tried to move against television violence but couldn't find the publisher backing he had against comic books."
the same way we put George Washington's slave ownership in the context of his time.
Most progressives seem to put it into this context: "He owned slaves so anything he did or said is evil and is to be ignored.
Or, Al "AGW" Gore's boxes as well. After all, he backed Tipper when she was running that campaign right before they figured out that they could climb higher by joining Bill and his crowd than in fighting them. if we are going to repudiate evereything someone has done because they promoted some censorship, let's be fair across the board.
Oh no it is the evil RIAA! Think of all those poor kids who cannot get the latest in the Pop Hits. Without having to save up their allowances and buy a copy. The Horror, lets get superman to deal with this.
Oh know BP. They Messed up, and yet they are working to clean up the spill at their own expense. Lets get superman to kill them all so the oil will never get cleaned up.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
But surely you had your famous God-given Constitution to protect you? And because all you freedom-loving Americans were and are armed, there was no way the evil Government could trample over you?
Oh, I was forgetting, you wee the country that had the McCarthy witch trials.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it