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⌈ Secret Post #3035 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Being Pro-Censorship

[blitzwing]

Part of it is just how horrified I am now of how much I LOVED that book.

Oh my god. Go self-flagellate somewhere else. Tumblr seems to be popular for wailing about how your fave is problematic and how you're terrible for liking it. I'd like to sympathize with you but really, you're being ridiculous.

And I was so proud of reading it and expanding my horizons (haha what a joke).

What a joke? Why, "What a joke"? I'm pretty sure the book did expand your horizons, since it made you think about something in a new way.

I'm of the opinion that that book should have been accompanied by a companion guide to explain the historical context. If not, I really don't think it should have been in the library.


How generous of you to want to deprive other students of a book because you failed to place the book in context. I read that book at the same age and wasn't swayed over to some pro-Confederacy pro-KKK views. Jesus.

I can support a companion guide, or even a teacher's assistance in understanding the book, but to say it shouldn't be in a library at all? Ridiculous. What's next, we should take the Harry Potter books out of school because some kids (myself included) really believed they were going to get a letter from Hogwarts? (I wept. Guess a librarian should have protected me from disappointment, at the expense of all the kids who realized they loved reading because of Harry Potter.)

Re: Being Pro-Censorship

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe I'm just particularly stupid -- I'll fully admit that -- but it really does bother me that after reading that book, I thought Southerners were justified in forming the KKK.

I know other kids are probably smarter than me and likely would have recognized the bias but I didn't. And I wish that I had had help in putting that book into context and recognizing that the author was giving one person's fictional and very biased portrayal of that period in time.

Re: Being Pro-Censorship

[blitzwing]

The mistaken conclusion you made as a child does not make you stupid. While help understanding the context would have been good, was any harm really done? Once you were older you were able to understand the context, and it's not like you ran off and joined a group of skinheads over it. You probably learned something from the experience itself that you wouldn't have if you'd never made that mistake.

Thinking that liking ~problematic~ material makes you some terrible person and you should never like it? Well that is a ridiculous and illogical conclusion and you should examine it.

Likewise with thinking that media (books, TV, movies) should be hidden because a few people might get the wrong idea from it.

Re: Being Pro-Censorship

[(Anonymous)]

I was just...I was a bit of a little shit about it. I acted like I was so enlightened and I felt so smart for having read it.

And it doesn't help that the town I grew up in is incredibly and deeply racist.

Re: Being Pro-Censorship

[blitzwing]

You were 12. We were all probably little shits about some things at that age. And you read a 1000+ page old book as a 12 year old. Just being able to follow, and stay interested in, a story that long was something you could be rightfully proud of.

Re: Being Pro-Censorship

[(Anonymous)]

You were a kid, and you made a mistake based on ignorance. Lots of adults do that as well. Censoring everything that might give children a wrong idea is not a good solution. It's not even a workable solution, to be honest.