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Originally Posted by flstf
The extreme religious right part of the Repubicans and the extreme liberal left part of the Democrats are both a danger to our freedoms.
I don't know which to fear most. One side wants to ban Hustler magazine for being lewd and the other side wants to ban Mark Twain for being politically incorrect. I think I read somewhere that Tom Sawyer and Catcher in the Rye were the most banned books in U.S. schools. One for using the word "fuck" and the other for using the word "nigger".
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I'm not sure how this became associated with liberals - most liberals I know are very concerned with free speech, and the ACLU, for example, is a favorite charity of the left. Especially the far left - the people I can see banning this are overly-sensitive suburban parents, not people dancing nude in San Francisco. The very far left is a big fan of Mark Twain, and a big fan of free speech - including the freedom to have kids read almost anything they want to.
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