Thin Gruel

Censorship from the right
The censorship of religious and moral issues. Excluding stories that would cause children to be disobedient and damage family life. Textbooks must be patriotic and teach the positive view of the nation. “The parents complained that the textbooks promoted secular humanism, satanism, witchcraft, fantasy, magic, the occult, disobedience, dishonesty, feminism, evolution, telepathy, one-world government, and New Age religion” (article). Parents also complained about books including sex, race, religion and violence wanting to ban them. Recently books like Harry Potter containing magic, witchcraft and fantasy have also been questioned.

Censorship from the left
The censorship of feminist and liberal views. Want to ban specific words, phrases and images in textbooks. Encourage realistic and accurate stories of our history. The left sees characters from fairytales as sexist. Fairytales displaying girls as poor souls while the boys are courageous. There is also materialism in which most fairytale characters have to rise to riches.

Heroine – This word is how to describe a female hero. How is this sexist if hero isn’t??
Homosexual – This is a description word. How can you ban it?
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The story that was banned on the blind mountain climber. For one, this story was true. It wasn't fictional it was a true story. Banning it for regional and disadvantage of blind people is ridiculous. People don't pay attention to regional description in terms of making themselves feel better for living in that specific location. And saying that blind people are worse off is true; they are blind! Banning this story is ridiculous.