Forum - View topicINTEREST: Color of Earth Manhwa Was #2 in Most Censoring Attempts in U.S.
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wandering-dreamer
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Wait, the second volume not the third? The third had pages of visual metaphors for the character's "first time," would have thought that would annoy the over-zealous adults more than anything else.
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Egan Loo
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Oh, the entire series was #2 on the list, and not just one volume. |
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Chagen46
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What I find most surprising about this article is that people are still trying to censor Brave New World and To Kill A Mockingbird.
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mgosdin
 Posts: 1302 Location: Kissimmee, Florida, USA |
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Censoring Library books did not work when I was a kid 40 years ago and it would have no chance of working for my kids in the last 20 years. ( They have had full access to an uncensored internet during that time. )
What my Wife and I did was to make certain that if our boys had questions they knew they could ask us. Any question, any time. Much the same as my parents did for me. Mark Gosdin |
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njprogfan
 Collector Extraordinaire Posts: 1233 Location: A River Named Toms |
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I agree. When will grownups grow up.... 
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TitanXL
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Has anyone read it and know any specific reasons why? Them just listing 'sex' doesn't help. Unless this is a case of 'it's a comic, which is automatically for little kids"
And I can't think of anything to censor in To Kill a Mocking Bird. Granted I read it like 15 years ago, but all I remember is a black man being framed for a crime and the court not really caring about evidence since he's black. Is that really bad enough for people to censor? You see worse racial profiling on the news/BET. |
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Scaramanga
Posts: 135 Location: San Diego, CA |
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Welcome to 2012 folks...
EDIT: More depressing than the sex (although probably tied to it) is how many of these list religious viewpoint as a reason. Last edited by Scaramanga on Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:01 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Surrender Artist
 Posts: 3264 Location: Pennsylvania, USA |
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I haven't read it, but the book's Wikipedia entry offers the plausible explanation that, "The book's racial slurs, profanity, and frank discussion of rape have led people to challenge its appropriateness in libraries and classrooms across the United States." The the American Library Association seems to corroborate this. |
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Chagen46
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Originally, people wanted to censor it because of the current of racism that under-lied US society at the time it was published--racists hated the anti-racism message. Now, the main reason people want to censor it today is that it uses the n-word so much, even though that's simply because it takes place in a tine where the n-word was used frequently. The dialog is merely historically correct. |
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Scaramanga
Posts: 135 Location: San Diego, CA |
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Mark, I agree with you wholeheartedly, but I'd wager people who want to believe that genitalia and sexuality don't exist amongst kids/teens probably also don't want to accept what's on that interwebs they keep hearing about. |
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dragon695
 Posts: 1377 Location: Clemson, SC |
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Manhwa =/= Manga, so I don't see the need to discuss it on this site.
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Chagen46
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The two are generally conflated together, however.
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Scaramanga
Posts: 135 Location: San Diego, CA |
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And yet here you are discussing the need (or lack thereof) to discuss it on this site. Odd. |
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Princess_Irene
ANN Associate Editor
 Posts: 2659 Location: The castle beyond the Goblin City |
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I'm surprised Wandering Son didn't make the list just for its subject matter. But then, this is the first year in a while that neither And Tango Makes Three or Heather Has Two Mommies is present, so perhaps that's less of a hot-button issue than people actually having sex.
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Scaramanga
Posts: 135 Location: San Diego, CA |
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I suppose it depends on how much of WS is out and has been picked up by libraries nation-wide. |
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