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#1 AL parents try to have Fahrenheit 451 book banned

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:44 pm
by rhoenix
I wasn't sure whether to put this here, in S&L, or in N&P, as it falls either way. But regardless - yes, you read the thread title correctly.

Youtube link to broadcast of news:

As another user on another forum wrote as his comment, "Let that one roll around in your head a little bit. I mean really try and think about it. Banning a book about the evils of banning books."

For my comment...the two parents trying to get this book banned do absolutely nothing to help their cause in the interview.

#2

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:47 pm
by Charon
Again?

No seriously, we go through this with the same freaking book at least once every decade.

#3

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:53 pm
by rhoenix
True. However, the advent of the Internet makes this sort of thing much, much funnier, and all the more delicious as a public spectacle.

#4

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:15 am
by SirNitram
It's annual demonstration of irony day, apparently.

#5

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:47 pm
by The Minx
Gosh.

Some of the comments left there are hardly better. I went and responded to one of them:
lostinthesway wrote:makes you want to burn a church
Um, this comment is about as ironic as the video itself. I guess that makes it meta-irony? :)
It really is. Some people never seem to learn. :???: