Book Censorship Revisited: Is Atlantic Magazine Out of Touch?

by DorothyD on April 25, 2010

I would like to revisit my topic “Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2009″ just for a moment.

This morning I read in The Atlantic how the dilemma over banned and challenged books should be alarming simply because they do not believe enough parents are protesting!

Since they had just 460 challenges reported the ALA presumes that it’s about 25% of the total challenges, equaling about 2000 total.

The Atlantic declares: “But it’s even scarier to think of a country where books are so irrelevant, parents don’t even care enough to complain.” Really? That is the most horrifically ridiculous assertion I have ever read.

Atlantic Males Assumptions

So why, exactly, has it been assumed that parents consider books irrelevant? Evidently, The Atlantic does not care to entertain the notion that parents are anti-censorship and would like our kids to be open-minded.

They do not seem to understand that many parents are very aware of these kinds of books and actually encourage our children to read them and discuss the content. The author of this article is clearly out of touch. *gets off soapbox*

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DorothyD

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Reading and writing are my passions. I read a lot of paper books as well as listen to audiobooks utilizing playaways from the local library. I listen to most of my audiobooks on my iPod. I read about one book/week and am rarely seen without one in hand. Come along and discuss this article in our friendly community forum.