Name a time in history it was the good guys banning books

[Spicoli]

It's odd though as any company choosing to limit or discontinue certain films books etc are really proving shortsighted. I mean if you pull Dumbo on stereotypes what of the overall message these convey in the first place? It's kneecapping original intent and a proven platform in the name of society on whole being able to look back years later and admit..yeh, I can see that can be an issue. But it's like throwing the baby out with the bath water to quote my Granny ma from way back . What did kids take from a Dumbo, pro animal rights and cruelty, anti greed and corruption, don't rely on booze or substance or you may trip balls and see rainbow colored elephants. I cannot recall what else it's been a few decades . And the thing is they do multiple remakes of these same films and are fully capable or 'correcting' or modernizing ? the content. Did Tim Burton have crows ffs? The market and avenue can tend to itself and in doing so educate. I still think much of this is overblown if we're talking a literal "ban" on a lot of what is mentioned. I was looking for old almanacs just Monday and they tried to set my up with free Candice Owens on audio book. Show me Government banning..problem. Show me businesses..that's how the ball bounces.

[El Kabong]

[NoSavingByTheBell]

you know pure evil is in the world when it tells you that YOU are gaslighting when THEY are gaslighting; you know true evil is in this world when it tells you that YOU are projecting when in fact THEY are projecting.

[Spicoli]

That is interesting, stuff makes you flashback to how many have been banned, censored and 'cancelled' since the inception of open opinions and platforms. Long before social media. So he's of the mind that you cannot be a target of cancel culture if you're rich-well known? In the JK Rowling response. Didn't know that. Just seems to a lot of this is made up on the fly and geared to funnel cultural societal outrage. But it does get you thinking.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

I cannot think of one single book that I would ban were I in charge.

[Gandalf]

I cannot think of one single book that I would ban were I in charge.

For sure, no book should ever be banned. I find the Bible preposterous, but you do not ban it. I find Mein Kampf to be somewhat unhinged, but you do not ban it. Dickens played to stereotypes, but you don't ban him. Shakespeare did the same, but you do not ban him. Nothing should be banned and everything permitted when it comes to literature.

It boils down to you. Do you want to read it or not? It is all up to you. The funny thing about these images is that they are not offensive and Asians I have spoken to about it have either shrugged or laughed at it. As I said to you, kids comic books drawn by Asians for Asians have the same kinds of images. There is just none of this po faced 'How bad is it to show ourselves as caricature' nonsense going on in the West.

Look at kids comics back home. Characters are by their nature caricatures with big ears, goofy teeth etc. So what, right?

[NoSavingByTheBell]

right, but tell that to the cultural marxist word police.