New Jersey moving to ban Huckleberry Finn

It's funny how we have come full circle. A used to be religious right Southern nuts that wanted to ban books like this in the school system. Now it's the left wing, which used to consider themselves open thinkers and free minded. Stunning.

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Resist Violent Speech !
Forward !

Some of us called it a couple of years ago: taking down the statues in New Orleans was just the beginning.

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It's funny how we have come full circle. A used to be religious right Southern nuts that wanted to ban books like this in the school system. Now it's the left wing, which used to consider themselves open thinkers and free minded. Stunning.

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The difference is if religious people would have been successful and banned leftist garbage we would probably be all better off

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Some of us called it a couple of years ago: taking down the statues in New Orleans was just the beginning.

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I don’t care if statues come down!
I don’t care if buildings are renamed!
So what if streets are renamed?
Who cares about some players kneeling?
I didn’t read Huck Finn either as a kid!
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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane,
But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature’s second course,
And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of.
There’s the respect must give us pause:
Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The law’s delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take,
In the dead waste and middle of the night, when churchyards yawn In customary suits of solemn black,
But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, Breathes forth contagion on the world,
And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i’ the adage,
Is sicklied o’er with care,
And all the clouds that lowered o’er our housetops,
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. ’Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws,
But get thee to a nunnery—go!

The resolution only "encourages" schools to pull it from their curriculum. But, yeah, it's stupid and really not a well thought out resolution. And I know one of the sponsors.

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Well, they banned Chick-fil-a in San Antonio this week.
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The left just likes banning things.

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We should ban Democrats because of their history in the South.

First they come for your Negro Jim..then next year it's your Curtis Loew.