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		<title>Banning Books</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can understand banning Beloved, a novel that inappropriately emphasizes the unpleasant aspects of slavery and causes our precious delicate darlings to suffer feelings of discomfort and even nightmares. That is completely uncalled for. American history is a four-hundred-year saga of nice people doing nice things and it should be taught in a nice way&#8230;]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can understand banning <em>Beloved</em>,<br />
a novel that inappropriately emphasizes the unpleasant aspects of slavery<br />
and causes our precious delicate darlings to suffer<br />
feelings of discomfort<br />
and even nightmares.<br />
That is completely uncalled for.<br />
American history is a four-hundred-year saga of nice people doing nice things<br />
and it should be taught in a nice way<br />
with no discomfort,<br />
no nightmares,<br />
and no <em>Beloved</em>.</p>
<p>And I can understand banning <em>Maus</em>,<br />
a book replete with profanity, nudity, violence, and suicide.<br />
There’s no need for profanity, nudity, violence, or suicide<br />
in a book about the Holocaust.<br />
The Holocaust was about evil Gazpacho Police forcing innocent people to wear masks.<br />
A crime against humanity, to be sure,<br />
or at least a crime against the inalienable right to spread infectious diseases,<br />
but, nevertheless, a crime that can be taught tastefully,<br />
without profanity,<br />
without nudity,<br />
without violence,<br />
without suicide,<br />
without <em>Maus</em>.</p>
<p>But banning <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/11/toby-price-principal-fired-childrens-book/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>I Need a New Butt</em></a>?<br />
No, now you have gone too far.<br />
How can you expect our kids to sit<br />
quietly at their desks and learn<br />
if they don’t have a proper butt<br />
upon which to sit?<br />
Madam Superintendent of Schools,<br />
you need a new brain.<br />
Yours has a crack in it.</p>
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