Governor Klink lies about “censorship”.
Hey, he’s the head of the Democrat Governors Association. He’s got to serve as a model for the rest of them.
Now, I think I read “Charlotte’s Web” in fourth grade. So it’s been a bit.
And I’d forgotten this bit – which is something that makes me seriously wonder…
…if there’s a Democrat school district out there that’s banned it because of its violent overtones?
Imagine the howling if Trump said that.
Charlotte’s Web made the news in 2006 when a parent’s group in Kansas had it banned for 1 school district, otherwise I can’t find instances of it being banned.
Kansas currently has a Democrat Governor, isn’t Waltz crapping on his own cadre?
Pig, I found the same claims but I cannot track down the source. I’m beginning to wonder if it’s true or if it’s merely “as everyone knows” so I could use a little help.
The claim repeated by Liberals is that in 2006, some parents in a Kansas school district decided talking animals were blasphemous beause humans are the highest form of creation, and that passages about the spider dying were inappropriate subject matter for a children’s book, so Charlotte’s Web was banned in the school system.
But I cannot find the name of the school district, the city where it occurred, the name of the parents group, a local newspaper article about it, a television news report, a parent interviewed about it . . . anything to verify what actually
happened.
A group of wide-eyed crazy religious nuts may have made demands (although I can’t even verify that), but did the school board vote to act on the demand and were all copies of the book actually pulled from the shelves?
Or it a lie that nobody bothers to check because it’s too good to be true?
I could use a little help finding the truth.
Boy, that still image of Gov Wally… a squat little fat guy, self-satisfied and sanctimonious, is not a good look. But maybe it plays well for his voters?
Bigman
I had the same results – every site refers to an occurrence that doesn’t seem to be directly documented anywhere.
Sometimes I miss LexisNexis.
Well, there was one school district in 2006 in Kansas that tried to ban it because some held that talking animals would be “blasphemous and unnatural”, but they didn’t succeed, probably in part because the Bible itself features a talking donkey and trees talking. So Walz’s idea is flat out false.
My thought on liberal school districts and “Charlotte’s Web” is that they would try to ban the book simply because it’s a good book. If you waste space on E.B. White’s work, you might not have room for dreck like Heather has two mommies and the like.
Which school district was that, Bike Bubba? What’s the name of the city? Can you provide a link?
I still can’t find proof it actually happened, only claims that it happened. Is that weird?
Most likely thing that I’ve read, that so many “controversies” end up being- PR stunt. In 2006, the a new Charlotte’s Web movie came out. There were perhaps some people on the fringes who talked about the immorality of talking animals and the movie people ran with it for publicity.
That’s funny because it’s on a network (one of them) that didn’t hesitate to add “…falsely claimed…” or “…without evidence…” when quoting Donald Trump.
Bigman, looked up a few references, and boy oh boy does it appear that it’s kinda like a game of “telephone” (what we might have called “Chinese telephone” as kids) where leftists keep repeating the claim, but nobody seems to have an original source. I’m guessing there was a group of maybe five parents that submitted petitions, and somebody ran with it as if they’d succeeded.
And I stand by my claim that it’s far more likely that the left would ban it because it’s a good book. Can’t have that in the schools.
Yeah, Bikebubba, that’s what I found. Everybody confidently repeats the story as proof that Conservatives are haters, but nobody says where the story came from so we can tell if the story is true.
Reminds me of the plastic straw hoax which was eventually traced back to some 6th Grade kid’s science project. Or the six-foot separation rule which apparently was pulled out of Fauci’s . . . ear. Endless repetition makes us assume it’s true but what if it’s not? What if it’s a beautiful example of Reagan’s quote: “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”