Are We Supposed To Be Shocked Or Something?
I was talking with my friend Joe on Thursday and he mentioned something about Sarah Palin that I hadn't heard yet, at the time.
The subject being her attempt to get the librarian of her town, when she was mayor, to ban any book that she deemed unfit for consumption. When the librarian refused, Palin threatened to fire her. After an overwhelming show of support for the librarian, Palin backed down and chickened out.
But, as Joe and I were saying, are we really supposed to be surprised by this? After all is said and done, isn't this kind of thing endemic to the Republican Party? It's rare that you get a Democrat running around asking for books to be banned or holding book burning rallies.
So, really, this was just Sarah Palin being Sarah Palin, right?
Think about it a little further and you have to ask yourself, what kinds of books would she have objected to?
Anything that might teach a kid that there's absolutely nothing wrong with sex as long as you're protecting yourself and your partner, your partner is consenting and everyone is mature enough to understand the consequences?
Whoops, sorry, a little too close to home.
How about something that might teach people what community leadership is? Or what the Vice Puppetdent of the US does (or is told to do)?
I know, a book that tells about how the corporations of this country (especially the gas and oil industry and the military-industrial complex) have a stranglehold on everyone's life.
A book that exposes politicians' connections to these above-mentioned corporations.
A book about evolution.
A book that pokes holes in the fantastical story known as The Bible. This one would be real easy. Just ask the question that Harlan Ellison says that he asked the first time he was in Sunday school: "If Adam and Eve were the first people on the planet and they had two kids named Cain and Abel and Cain killed Abel and then was cast out of Eden, where did all the other people come from when he came to the Land Of Nod?" Ellison says that he was then banned from ever participating in Sunday school again. I say when egos such as those connected to religion explode, they sure go up nicely, don't they?
A book that exposes that abstinence doesn't work.
A book that shows that there's absolutely nothing wrong with people who are gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgendered and that they can raise children just as well, if not better, than so-called straight people.
Sarah Palin would probably object to ANY book that she didn't agree with. But since she's a Republican, she'd probably object most to fictional texts. Republicans have a problem with distinguishing between fiction and reality. Witness a few years ago when a town in South Carolina went crazy and thought that Harry Potter might actually teach your children witchcraft so they burned piles of one of the novels and accused J.K. Rowling of trying to corrupt your kids.
This is just how they do. They're insane like that.
The subject being her attempt to get the librarian of her town, when she was mayor, to ban any book that she deemed unfit for consumption. When the librarian refused, Palin threatened to fire her. After an overwhelming show of support for the librarian, Palin backed down and chickened out.
But, as Joe and I were saying, are we really supposed to be surprised by this? After all is said and done, isn't this kind of thing endemic to the Republican Party? It's rare that you get a Democrat running around asking for books to be banned or holding book burning rallies.
So, really, this was just Sarah Palin being Sarah Palin, right?
Think about it a little further and you have to ask yourself, what kinds of books would she have objected to?
Anything that might teach a kid that there's absolutely nothing wrong with sex as long as you're protecting yourself and your partner, your partner is consenting and everyone is mature enough to understand the consequences?
Whoops, sorry, a little too close to home.
How about something that might teach people what community leadership is? Or what the Vice Puppetdent of the US does (or is told to do)?
I know, a book that tells about how the corporations of this country (especially the gas and oil industry and the military-industrial complex) have a stranglehold on everyone's life.
A book that exposes politicians' connections to these above-mentioned corporations.
A book about evolution.
A book that pokes holes in the fantastical story known as The Bible. This one would be real easy. Just ask the question that Harlan Ellison says that he asked the first time he was in Sunday school: "If Adam and Eve were the first people on the planet and they had two kids named Cain and Abel and Cain killed Abel and then was cast out of Eden, where did all the other people come from when he came to the Land Of Nod?" Ellison says that he was then banned from ever participating in Sunday school again. I say when egos such as those connected to religion explode, they sure go up nicely, don't they?
A book that exposes that abstinence doesn't work.
A book that shows that there's absolutely nothing wrong with people who are gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgendered and that they can raise children just as well, if not better, than so-called straight people.
Sarah Palin would probably object to ANY book that she didn't agree with. But since she's a Republican, she'd probably object most to fictional texts. Republicans have a problem with distinguishing between fiction and reality. Witness a few years ago when a town in South Carolina went crazy and thought that Harry Potter might actually teach your children witchcraft so they burned piles of one of the novels and accused J.K. Rowling of trying to corrupt your kids.
This is just how they do. They're insane like that.
posted by Anonymous @ 6:59 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:44 AM,
Anonymous said…
"The subject being her attempt to get the librarian of her town, when she was mayor, to ban any book that she deemed unfit for consumption. When the librarian refused, Palin threatened to fire her. After an overwhelming show of support for the librarian, Palin backed down and chickened out."
This turns out to be bogus.
She never removed a single book. There is not a record of her asking that any book be removed. It was started by a 44 year old wall flower who is jealous of the popularity of a girl from high school nearly 30 years ago. Kilkennedy is pathetic. She never got over the "popular" girl and to this day resents her. She needs to get a life. Palin had a right to ask for the resignation, and she also had a right to reject it. She chose to keep the lady.
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