OPINION: In any case, it’s important that we take censorship cues from the past, in order to lead us in a right future.
Governor Gavin Newsom posted a photo of himself on Twitter on March 30, 2002 with the comment, “Reading some banned books to figure out what these states are so afraid of.” There’s an exciting new trend in education and tons of states are getting in on the action.
It’s just not a good idea to show that much independent thinking to young impressionable minds… in a book. “Catcher” was first banned in 1960, when a Tulsa school teacher was fired for assigning the book to his class. Did there really need to be 30 more instances of censorship for people to get the drift that the book is bad news? Good riddance, Holden Caulfield and your inappropriate Christmas break trip to New York City.
I remember sitting in my high school English class in Oakland reading George Orwell’s “1984,” yet another book on Newsom’s stack. I was very focused on a beautiful classmate. I think her name was Sylvia. My enamored state was continually pushed off a dystopian cliff by the forced reading of Orwell’s nightmare, and was made worse by having to write a paper on it. The novel’s hopelessness is etched forever in my brain.
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