Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:31:35 +0000
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <87frkbb1mw.fsf@parhasard.net>
References: <03gqqj562r4vi0kpi2vl8flsi59jsbot56@4ax.com>
 <2cd9b498-9b17-c4f4-47c3-bd54eb35ac59@example.net>
 <67b06d56$0$12928$426a74cc@news.free.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: individual.net 5pL8uYdnPMrl54r3ouZGtA68dhX7nrLyb9mZ5SwKbf7CTce5GU
Cancel-Lock: sha1:JEERuGxlM0RkwPeEr1P9fuHcSiw= sha1:sjVCvXN4k4h139yPkELuhqzqRwU= sha256:B8YuHrQP8utm6OyCgXGEj4YpqU+Kx9AucbeqsKjtg48=
User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) XEmacs/21.5-b35 (Linux-aarch64)


 Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí Feabhra, scríobh J. J. Lodder: 

 > D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
 > 
 > > On Wed, 12 Feb 2025, Judith Latham wrote:
 > > 
 > > > Below are 25 of the most popular works of literature from the last
 > > > century that have been banned from schools, libraries, and, in some
 > > > cases, entire countries. [...]
 > > > To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
 > > 
 > > Boring!
 > 
 > And thoroughly American-nasty.
 > The idea that it is allright to kill any bird for any reason,
 > because you happen to feel that way, or just for target practice
 > put me off whatever else the book is trying to say.
 > Excepting Mockingbirds doesn't make it any better,

There’s nothing specifically American about hunting. Though yes, this situation
is not hunting in the usual sense.

-- 
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)