"Making wrong calls in sports is inconsequential. Singling out a student for reading something and forbidding her to continue is censorship. Not inconsequential."
I understood from what you wrote was that the 13 year old was told not read the book in home period. That's not censorship.
If the child was told that the book was not to be read at anytime then that would be "somewhat like" censorship [of course this wouldn't really be enforcable by the teacher unless the child was in some boarding school]. Real censorship is where the govt threaten those who want to publish a book by fining them or imprisoning them. For example John Kerry's attempt to threaten a publisher with a law suit is a good example of censorship [attempting to use the power of the State to prevent someone from publishing].
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- Scopes Trial
- Without getting to deep into it...
- So what is your point here, really? Just point-scoring?
- William Jennings Bryant may have been opposed to Social Darwinism, but that's not how Tennessee wrote its statute.
- "We all do them." At least you admitted that.
- re: William Jennings Bryant may have been opposed to Social Darwinism, but that's not how Tennessee wrote its statute.
- Joining The Republican's Creationist Agenda Too?
- Oh, and the original David Brooks article