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lex ([personal profile] blue_lotus13) wrote2006-01-11 09:57 am
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I just read that one of the books that I loved last year The Earth, my butt and other big round things by Carolyn Mackler, was banned in some schools in Maryland. After investigation and protest by several students, the book was returned to shelves in high schools . I think it's really cool that some of the students started petitions and collected over 200 signatures.

I must admit that I don't understand the paranoia and fear in the United States. I don't understand the banning of Carolyn Mackler's book. I was reading about Tommy Chong's arrest as research for my article, and it just seems bizarre to me. Same with the Terri Schiavo case. I guess these are examples of the differences between some (not all, gentle readers) ways of American thinking and Canadian thinking.

[identity profile] jangrl.livejournal.com 2006-01-11 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
i always hear about us fundamentalism but never about conservative fundamentalist movements in canada (probably cuz we don't do much news coverage of canada cuz their policies put ours to shame! ha!). is that big over there as it is here?

jangrl

[identity profile] carpetofstars.livejournal.com 2006-01-11 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
honestly? that's carroll county for you.

(fun trivia: i interviewed to be the carroll county library's pr coordinator. fun trivia, part two: i got offered another job that afternoon at another interview and took it as quickly as i could.)