Freedom of Thought

[NotJoeBiden]

If You Tolerate Everything, You Stand for Nothing

But I dont tolerate censorship. I stand for free speech.


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Joe the engineer

I don't like censorship, either. I didn't appreciate the cancellation of some of Dr. Seuss's books.

Instead of outright canceling a book, perhaps some could be rewritten for school use. They could create a school-friendly version alongside the original, similar to how there are TV edits of movies and radio edits of songs.

For instance, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' contains the N-word. Since it's in the public domain, anyone can reprint the book with that offensive content removed. I don't advocate for banning this book, but I wouldn't object if they chose to make such changes.

Nobody banned Dr. Seuss, the publisher voluntarily decided to stop printing books with racist depictions.

If we look at the most banned book of all time, 1984, we can see the repression of a cautionary tale about this type of censorship.

Banning books is wrong