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This reminds me of censorship in the USSR - as I even remember being in there and still have a load of books from this time, I know very well where political and "educational" censorship leads (not to mention the worst kind of it - the self-censorship when author sometimes doesn't even realize his/her willingness to avoid "politically incorrect" ideas). To put it mildly, this kind of literature is bland and often illogical and plain stupid.
There's a good side to it, too - the poetry was very powerful because it allowed more freedom and underlying messges; and now the artists and writers in my country rise against even at the tiniest signs of censorship. So we have Agatha Christie's "Ten little niggers", not "Ten little sailors", and Jim in Huckleberry Finn is a nigger too, we also have our share of jews and gypsies, which I am happy for - after all, good literature doesn't lose its quality if certain notions become politically incorrect, but it might very well lose a lot if it would be edited by people of less talent than the author.
posted by
hagi
on March 19, 2008 at 6:09 AM
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Responsibility of the parents belongs in the time before children read. The materials themselves are written in the style of whatever they are already.
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BC-A
on March 19, 2008 at 3:02 AM
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