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In the 1990s, many school boards across America began removing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from their schools’ libraries and deeming that book unfit for instruction.
At first, this news alarmed me. How can we deprive young Americans of Mark Twain’s renown wit and incomparable storytelling? I was assigned Huck Finn in high school, and I loved it.
But then Huck Finn’s critics reminded me of Twain’s profuse use of the word, “nigger.” Oopsie. Maybe those school boards were right? Maybe Huck Finn isn’t appropriate for young minds?
School boards are well within their rights to deem books inappropriate for the children they serve. And if a school board doesn’t want to subject its students to a book that profusely uses the n-word, or claims “Jews run the world,” or details how to engage in anal sex, I’m okay with it.
And I’m okay with it because I’m not a political retard. I know that a school board deeming a book inappropriate doesn’t mean that particular book is banned. Any publisher who wants to print Huck Finn, for instance, can lawfully do so, and anyone who wants to buy and read Huck Finn can lawfully do so too. Here’s the Amazon link:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Okay, groovy freedomist, that’s all I got. Our Woke Overlords tell us school boards all across America are “banning” books in an effort to appease the twisted, hidebound impulses of their MAGA constituents. Do you believe them? Or do you believe the people who don’t know what a woman is don’t know what book-banning is either? Let me know what you think when you get a chance. Peace.
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