It’s now official: leftists are the actual book-burners.
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The entire point of Huckleberry Finn is that racism is evil and wrong, even if the majority of a society believes it to be decent. The point of To Kill A Mockingbird is that racism can infuse the criminal justice system when a society decides that skin color matters more than content of character. According to the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, To Kill A Mockingbird is still the most banned book in the United States.
Why are books being banned? Because they’re offensive. But that’s the point: books that are offensive are often the most important books to read, debate, and discuss. An intellectual climate that focuses more on protecting feelings and viewpoints than on analyzing and discussing ideas isn’t intellectual at all. It’s just a bubble. And bubbles don’t survive in the open air of the real world.
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Leftists In Virginia Ban 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' 'Huck Finn' in Schools https://t.co/7qhJUElWku pic.twitter.com/rBwcIdzMsI
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 2, 2016
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