# Fuck you !!! Nazi Book Banning Bastards! Stay out of our schools!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 17, 2001, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850 "2001-11-17T00:05:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/1 "2001-11-17T00:05:56Z")
I am in rare form right now, Livid does not even come close to explaining my state of mind. I was just watching the news and I saw a group in Tennessee (Catholic Elementary School) banning all Harry Potter books saying that they promoted Idolatry…IDOLATRY!!! :EEK: What the Fuck are you bastards thinking!! Bitch-\> I wouldn’t sooner supress a childs imagination than I would eat shit. You think banning a book series geared for children is OK ?? You are fucking ignorant, inbred, bible toting, vile, low down, dispicable, rat bastard, fuck’in lowest form of life FREAKS!!! Harry Potter helps expand a childs imagination! And promotes free thinking and fantastical imagry. Why ban it? All you book banning bastard fucks should be locked away with a copy of Clock Work Orange and a vile of KY Jelly in the pits of a Pedophile farm!!!You leftist conservative weasel fuckwads either go back to the 50’s and sing happy happy happy songs or wake the fuck up and join us in the 21st century. Fuckoing assholes. I would never dream in a million years of taking a book that promotes a childs imagination…I feel sorry for those pitiful people. I feel even sorrier for the children. If they now any better they’ll not take what those ass fucks are saying as gospel and they will think for themselves. I shudder when I think there are still people out there banning books like Harry Potter and preaching horrible untruthes to our youth. They are breeding another generation of ignorance. UUUURRRHHHHGGGGG!!! you fucks. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/2 "2001-11-17T00:08:54Z")
Subversion by reading- I love it. Now where are my copies of Annie On My Mind, To Kill A Mockingbird, Heather Has Two Mommies, and The Giver? I’ve some reading to do… ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/3 "2001-11-17T00:31:56Z")
People who want to ban books do have a use–they keep me informed of what I should be reading. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/4 "2001-11-17T00:34:56Z")
Would you expect anything less from the state that brought you the Scopes monkey trial? [sub]No, they **haven’t** progressed much beyond that mentality. Any non-native like myself discovers that rather quickly and painfully.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/5 "2001-11-17T01:07:08Z")
Gee, maybe someone should send them the statements from the National Council of Catholic Bishops, [NCCB - Movie reviews](http://www.nccbuscc.org/movies/weekly.htm) > [@](#): > > **Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone** – Vividly imaginative tale follows the magical adventures of an 11-year-old orphan (Daniel Radcliffe) who discovers he is a wizard and escapes his miserable life with an awful aunt and uncle to attend the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. A fine adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s children’s book, director Chris Columbus’ fantasy film about magic, villainy and friendship is filled with beguiling visual details as well as excellent casting choices, yet a few underdeveloped characters and its extravagant length are shortcomings. Older children should be able to handle it, although it is too long and intense for younger ones. Some menacing situations and scary images with an instance of crass language. **A-II – adults and adolescents**. (PG) Or they might want to read [the full review](http://www.nccbuscc.org/movies/h/harrypotterfullreview.htm). yeeesh ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/6 "2001-11-17T01:22:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phlosphr \* > **You leftist conservative weasel fuckwads…** Huh? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![RoboDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbe5ce/32.png) [@RoboDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoboDude)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/7 "2001-11-17T01:33:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Harry Potter helps expand a childs imagination! And promotes free thinking and fantastical imagry. Why ban it? People who would ban things because they contradict their religious beliefs generally don’t see imagination or free thought as very good things. ---
**Author:** ![lenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3bc359/32.png) [@lenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lenin)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/8 "2001-11-17T01:38:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Huh? 😕 😕 How the hell do you have leftist conservatives? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/9 "2001-11-17T01:45:14Z")
A Catholic school is against Harry Potter? That’s pretty odd…idoltry? Please tell me they’re kidding! Yeesh-we were reading all kinds of sci-fi and fantasy fiction as Catholic school students… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/10 "2001-11-17T02:36:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ultrafilter \* > \*\*People who want to ban books do have a use–they keep me informed of what I should be reading. \*\* Heh, heh … You remind me of one of my hobbies in high school. Our incredibly repressed school librarian kept the copy of Catcher in the Rye under the counter because he thought it was too dirty to have out on the open shelves. I made sure I checked it out at least once a year (even though we had a copy at home) just to drive him nuts. He always looked at me with a sad expression and asked “What’s a nice girl like you want with a book like that? Why don’t you get something better, like some nice Zane Grey?” ---
**Author:** ![Caiata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Caiata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caiata)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/11 "2001-11-17T02:50:29Z")
> [@](#): > > How the hell do you have leftist conservatives? If you weren’t living in the United States, I’d wager - don’t the UK and commonwealth countries flop our little diagram around and put conservatives (called Liberal party?) on the left and the liberals (called Labour) on the right? I dunno 'bout the rest of Europe and how they line 'em up though. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/12 "2001-11-17T02:54:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Caiata \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > How the hell do you have leftist conservatives? > > If you weren’t living in the United States, I’d wager - don’t the UK and commonwealth countries flop our little diagram around and put conservatives (called Liberal party?) on the left and the liberals (called Labour) on the right? I dunno 'bout the rest of Europe and how they line 'em up though. \*\* I’m pretty sure the left-right association comes from Europe–specifically, the French revolution. As my world history teacher in high school told me, the delegates to a convention whose name escapes me sat on different sides of the room from those of a different political orientation, and thus the left-right terminology came to be. I’m not exactly 100% certain of this, though, so don’t go telling everyone it’s the gospel truth. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/13 "2001-11-17T03:10:28Z")
**Guin** Sayeth: > [@](#): > > A Catholic school is against Harry Potter? > > That’s pretty odd…idoltry? I share your wonderment. This must be giving the Protestants a giggle or three. ---
**Author:** ![Caiata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Caiata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caiata)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/14 "2001-11-17T03:22:31Z")
_nods_ right, **ultrafiller** , but the UK and Australia (perhaps Canada but I really don’t know about them) put them the other way around, from my experience; so if **Phlosphr** is from one of those countries he might say “leftist conservative”, and that has little or no bearing on the “rest” of Europe as far as I can tell. 🙂 Of course the only way this will ever be settled is if **Phlosphr** lets us know one way or the other if it was a mistake or his country’s political spectrum. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Caiata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Caiata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caiata)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/15 "2001-11-17T03:24:01Z")
Oops. **ultrafilter** , too. Yeah. I’ll learn to preview someday. (I’m still too used to being able to edit one’s own posts to rely on that preview button it seems…) ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/16 "2001-11-17T03:38:30Z")
Maybe the Catholic Church should reconsider having a giant statue of a malnourished, almost naked man nailed to a crucifix in every church as being something that “older children can handle” or just a wee bit “idolatrous.” ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/17 "2001-11-17T03:43:46Z")
Caiata: In the rest of Europe I’m pretty sure it’s the same as here in the States and I’m certain it’s the same in Canada. I think the English are flip-flop for one (or possibly both) of two reasons: (1) English are notorious for anything and everything French. Maybe the French Revolution thingy had something to do with it. (2) English are notorious for having no sense of dexterity. There, left is right and right is left. They drive on the left side of the road, which is not the right side of the road! Don’t get me wrong. I’m not bashing the British. In fact, I’m half British. I’ve got to give them credit for every British comedy show I’ve seen, especially Absolutely Fabulous and Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Plus, how many countries can boast not being invaded for nearly a millennium? (The Normans in 1066) ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/18 "2001-11-17T03:45:13Z")
Whoops, that should read: (1) English are notorious for **hating** anything and everything French. Maybe the French Revolution thingy had something to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/19 "2001-11-17T04:15:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Caiata \* > \*\*_nods_ right, **ultrafiller** , but the UK and Australia (perhaps Canada but I really don’t know about them) put them the other way around, from my experience; so if **Phlosphr** is from one of those countries he might say “leftist conservative”, and that has little or no bearing on the “rest” of Europe as far as I can tell. 🙂 > \*\* I did not know that. Well, what can I say? A high school world history teacher is not Cecil Adams. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850/20 "2001-11-17T04:18:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phlosphr \* > \*\* > > \ > And promotes free thinking and fantastical imagry. > \ > \*\* I think that would be the REAL problem some of these people are having with it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nazi-book-banning-bastards-stay-out-of-our-schools/93850.md?page=2)