To the editor: Michael Hiltzik’s column concerning the e book banning crusades reminded of after I, as a junior highschool scholar, took Ian Fleming’s “Dr. No” to high school as a part of a scholar’s-choice studying task.
I used to be despatched to the principal’s workplace by a trainer offended on the image of a bikini-clad lady on the duvet. The principal despatched me residence with the e book and a be aware to my dad and mom saying that such books weren't applicable in his faculty.
My mom, who was nearly as good a task mannequin as any youngster might want for, despatched me again to high school the subsequent day together with her be aware (and the e book) saying the varsity needs to be grateful that I used to be studying something, and that ended the matter in favor of “Dr. No.”
One way or the other, even with such perverse influences, I’ve managed to make it by means of regulation faculty and skim numerous nice books, together with “smut” written by William Faulkner, James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov.
Lynn Wooden, Huntington Seashore
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To the editor: Censorship isn’t a chalk line however a continuum. Hiltzik dismisses the censorship of the political left by saying that assaults on Woody Allen’s “Apropos of Nothing” and Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth are “one offs.”
Besides that comic Dave Chappelle’s present was not too long ago pulled from First Avenue in Minneapolis, articles on Louis C.Okay. nonetheless start with the phrase “disgraced,” and nobody cares about Garrison Keillor’s writing anymore.
Like in “1984,” the folks which might be censored by the left generally simply “disappear.” They've successfully misplaced their voices within the media, in artwork and in movie. It’s not formally censorship, however it's censorship surely.
After which there are the those who the media go away alone. The left has taught them: You higher be good, you higher be good. Say the appropriate issues.
Stan Brown, Victorville
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To the editor: Hiltzik’s tackle the right-wing e book banning obsession is spot on. Guide banning is just the trigger du jour of the Republican Get together, conjured up as a handy wedge subject to rile up the bottom.
So long as I can bear in mind, Republicans have relied on bogeymen to scare the trustworthy, whether or not it’s LGBTQ folks, immigrants, Black Lives Matter, important race concept or communists.
Normally, the polemicizing strikes on when the general public tires of it or a brand new hapless goal emerges. Generally it appears to go on without end. Not a day goes by with out some Republican candidate throwing the communist or Marxist thunderbolt at an adversary.
Phillip Gold, Westlake Village
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