Re: Name a time in history it was the good guys banning books
There have been so many books banned overtime, but I can only speak of the few I'm aware of -and take issues with it. Just as right wingers have the right to question the banning of Dr. Suess by liberals, -they go moot on their wanting to ban books like Harry Potter.
One book i question is The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, William Pynchon (1650).
The author lived in Puritan times considered one of the founders of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Just as with Roger Williams who wrote the Bloody Tenant (his treatment at the hands of Puritans) so, too did Pynchon become disenchanted with the way of life there, and wrote an explicit critique on Puritanism.
End result: The book was banned in Massachusetts, and copies of the book were also burned for its heretical content. Wow, the very people kicked out of their homeland branded as heretics, came to a new world, lied to the future generations that they wanted to practice religion according to the dictate of one's conscience, but when that time comes for someone else to do it----they got branded as heretics.
He fled back to England from what I read.
And Roger Williams author of the bloody tenant fled into the hands of the so-called savages via Narangansett Tribe and their mightly Leader Massasoit.
Throughout the lat 1700s-1800s most books by women or about women were banned. Christians of that day were the liberals of that day- they deemed anything not to their taste was vulgar, antigod, risque'
Hateful, white racists in the south banned Uncle Tom's Cabin because of its anti-slavery content. Or as they would've put it anti-capitalism.
If people can ban books that question people who claim christianity but behave other than that...
If people can ban books that uplift blacks from the turmoil of a slavery that promotes rape, denies fatherhood for slaves...
if people can ban books because it presents women outside the norm of what (ONE) demographic feels it should be as...
Then who gives a damn about Dr. Suess being banned, other than the children whose parents banned everything they loathed?
Karma's a (B)...so I heard...
All's lost! Everything's going to shit!
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