harmful books

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:10 am

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591

I notice they avoided religious works.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:24 am

pretty easy to see where these people's prejudices lie.
i bet the "progressive" people will make their own list next.
-bill

j$ · Post by j$ » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:36 am

Interesting to see Charles Darwin, Simone de Beauvoir and Franz Fanon (a bit like Franz Ferdinand but without the tight trousers) make it into the almost dangerous .... really this list should be called 'Books Right-wing People wish didn't exist' imo

Leaf what the f**k were you doing on this spurious website in the first place?

j$

Post by jb » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:36 am

What a pile of bullshit.

Basically any book that questions the status quo is harmful, according to them. I mean come on, "Silent Spring"??? Kind of obvious who a book like that is harmful to.

j$ · Post by j$ » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:45 am

Absolutely, and when is a book ever harmful??? Guns don't kill people, people with guns do etc etc

Pah, and who are these mysterious 'scholars' anyway?

j$

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:51 am

j$ wrote:Absolutely, and when is a book ever harmful???

The singular exception of an encyclopedia falling off the top shelf.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:12 am

My sister was doing some research and stumbled on this. I think it's pretty silly. I mean,I'm not actually suggesting that religious books are "dangerous", but you gotta admit, a whack of people have been offed in the name of a bible or two...why aren't they there?

It's a weird list...and a weird concept. Next, they'll be telling us about the ten most dangerous LP's of all time.

chucky · Post by **chucky** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:16 am

Leaf wrote:The ten most dangerous LP's of all time.

Hootie And The Blowfish' first album, along with Prince's Purple Rain.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:20 am

Puce wrote:
j$ wrote:Absolutely, and when is a book ever harmful???
The singular exception of an encyclopedia falling off the top shelf.

Especially the ones with the gold foil edged pages (like the '60s era World Book Encyclopedia). Them paper cuts take forever to heal.

And to popcult out for a moment... stupid is as stupid does. Demeaning, the wannabe opressors' association of their own blindered vision with our comprehensive ability.

Crap, I'm posting before coffee again. Oy. This will no doubt be unreadable when I'm actually awake.

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:36 am

Man, crap like this is what makes people hate politics. Every single thing now is a political issue, it's fricking ridiculous. How does educational theory have anything to do with politics? Why the hell should it be dangerous to a conservative party line to have less stay-at-home mothers? Politics should be about what powers government at different levels has, how our country relates with other countries, how much taxes are, and how they get spent. Making personal decisions into political issues is retarded.

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:36 pm

erikb wrote:Why the hell should it be dangerous to a conservative party line to have less stay-at-home mothers?

Because if you let more women go out and vote then conservatives will lose more elections. Same if you let people read whatever they want to. Even funnier than the top ten on that list are the runners-up: it is a list of books that would have been in the top ten except that they couldn't think of a way to summarize them without making themselves look even worse. Silent Spring, Origin of Species, etc.

Number one on the funny list has got to be their summary of The Feminine Mystique. "This chick thinks being a stay-at-home mom is bad, but, well, she hasn't even tried it so how does she know?"

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:33 pm

jb wrote:What a pile of bullshit.

Basically any book that questions the status quo is harmful, according to them. I mean come on, "Silent Spring"??? Kind of obvious who a book like that is harmful to.

Silent Spring was very harmful to the countless millions of people who died of malaria after the knee-jerk blanket ban on DDT. I tend to agree with that ones inclusion in the list.

I'd also include "Home Recording for Dummies"

NeilThrun · Post by **NeilThrun** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:40 am

Anyone notice its almost all non-fiction? Danger to these people means sex, communism, hitler, atheism, and Ralph Nader. Like what the hell, Nader? Correct me if I'm wrong but Unsafe at Any Speed is about the auto industrys poor saftey standards, right? Im dissapointed to see Nietzsche on that list. Even if you aren't an athiest there is alot to be gained from his ideas.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:54 am

Leaf wrote:My sister was doing some research and stumbled on this.

Ouch -- I guess it was harmful.

ba-dum CRASH!

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:58 am

bzl wrote:
erikb wrote:Why the hell should it be dangerous to a conservative party line to have less stay-at-home mothers?
Because if you let more women go out and vote then conservatives will lose more elections.

Bullshit. If stay-at-home moms are by nature more conservative, wouldn't conservatives want them to vote?

Reggie Dallas · Post by **Reggie Dallas** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:52 pm

I dropped a dictionary on my foot the other day. Hurt like a motherfucker!

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:04 am

Reggie Dallas wrote:I dropped a dictionary on my foot the other day. Hurt like a motherfucker!

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=motherfucker

mothÂ·erÂ·fuckÂ·er (muther-fuker)
n. Vulgar Slang
1. A person regarded as thoroughly despicable.
2. Something regarded as thoroughly unpleasant, frustrating, or despicable.

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:30 am

Enid Blyton...

stueym · Post by **stueym** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:52 am

Kamakura wrote:Enid Blyton...

[irony]
Dude don't be like that....Enid Blyton was a formative part of my childhood!!!

Noddy and The Famous Five clearly made me the well-balanced middle-class, racist, mysoginist, puppy loving (God Bless Timmy!) guntotting grown up I am today![/irony]

Actually loved reading her books when 7-11 and outgrew them. Only became aware of issues much later when I became an older angsty teenager. Social context has to be applied to much of her writing and she clearly had a huge impact on the English reading of the children of the Empire/Commonwealth through the 50's and 60's.

If this topic is confusing for our American cousins try the wiki peadia explanation to bring you upto speed on an author familiar to British and Aussie SF'ers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton

I did try writing the whole wiki pedia word and post the link only to have it censored. Oh the irony considering the topic of this thread LOL!!!!!

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:26 am

Noddy, Noddy, the little boy with the red and yellow car.
Noddy, Noddy, his tinkling bell means he's the happiest little fellow in all Toyland.
There's Big Ears and Teddy and Mr. Plod and all his special friends,
He sets out on adventures then he'll take you home again,
Noddy, Noddy. Noddy, Noddy. Doo doo doo doo doo.

It's so sad that I can remember almost all of that.

I had the Christmas special of the episodes on a kids' Christmas videotape when I was 6 or 7.

I don't think I ever read the books though. My generation doesn't do books

NeilThrun · Post by **NeilThrun** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:33 am

Why does the word Wiki pedia come up censored? Like in stueym's post above? Wikipedia.

stueym · Post by **stueym** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:39 am

NeilThrun wrote:Why does the word Wiki pedia come up censored? Like in stueym's post above? [CENSORED].

JB?...care to comment?