More Censorship in America
These past couple of weeks have been ridiculous with the amount of censorship. First, the Texas school board decides to alter text books to reduce the importance of Thomas Jefferson—I fail to understand the logic behind this decision. Then the Missouri school board decides that Slaughterhouse-Five should be banned, since it teaches ideas contrary to the Bible. As a Christian, I am embarrassed that we tend to be so afraid of different beliefs. Instead of having a dialogue, most people in any belief system or political party want to weed the thought from society and, by doing so, create a non-competing collective consciousness. By the way, if parents don’t want their kids to read a certain book in class, that’s fine. Teachers and parents need to collaborate to create curriculum that is appropriate, not make wide-sweeping policy that prohibits access to history and literature.
