"Greg G." wrote in message
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George said:

"Greg G." wrote in message
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Around here, your children won't be reading the Hardy Boys or Nancy
Drew. Mark Twain books are also on the hit list of the redneck 82 IQ
fundamentalist book nazis.

In 1988, librarians in Cobb County, Georgia, removed Nancy Drew and
The Hardy Boys from the library shelves. The librarians cited lack of
shelf space as the reason for the exclusion of the popular mystery
series. Mary Louis Rheay, director of the Cobb County Library System,
tells a different story, saying that "series books are poorly written
and do not meet library standards for book selection."


Sorry, you're showing your bias. The Nancy Drew books were banned by
feminists, The Hardy boys didn't have any female help, so ditto. Twain,
well, he used the N word a lot, so the NAACP got him. Then there's
Kipling's kids' tales and Uncle Remus....

None of these groups fit the "redneck" stereotype. But they are
"fundamentalist" in every sense save the stereotype in the liberal press.
Pejoratives should at least be applied correctly.

Sorry, you're showing your ignorance. You don't know a damned thing
about Cobb County, Georgia, or you wouldn't draw such erroneous,
sophomoric conclusions about an area that is about as far from
"liberal" as it gets.

My remarks were not specific to the county, but the country in general. I
know as much about your county's individuals as you know about mine. That's
what's happened country-wide. The pressure groups indicated have banned
more books than the Bostonians, and the ones indicated for the reasons
indicated. If you could broaden your view, you'd discover it's the truth.
Or you could think your county's the country or the world like a
stereotypical "redneck."