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Subject: Re: That's not funny!
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:31:10 -0400
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On 6/23/2025 4:15 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Student detained by school authorities for repeating Roald Dahl joke
> (it's a silly pun), accused of racism. It's from Charlie and the Glass
> Elevator. The book is in the school library.
> 
> The boy was detained for several hours.
> 
> Father asks how a student is supposed to know a joke is disapproved if
> the student is quoting from school-owned materials.
> 
> Do I need to say it happened in England? The school was in Kent.
> However, I could see it happening here in America.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQCKS0G7RcY

The joke's presence in the school library is a wrongheaded defense, 
likely to accomplish only a festering swarm of book-burning nannies. 
E.g., say goodbye to 'The Nigger Of the Narcissus'...