[HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: 4.1.4 Religious banning/Creating themed groups in catalogue

[Sean Dwyer]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:43:09AM -0000, CarolynWhite2 wrote:

> This section (4.1.4) currently resides in section 4 under a general 
> heading of 'controversies', along with the sub-thread 4.1.4.1 
> Abanes/Harry Potter & The Bible (which you should skim through at the 
> same time). I was particularly careful to preserve these two threads 
> intact, because although the topic of censorship in general is OT, 
> the application here, ie that HP should be banned because of it's 
> supposed occult and generally 'immoral' content, lead to some very 
> good debate on what the books were about.
> 
> Together, I think these two threads are not only a matter of HPfGU 
> historical record, but help to make sense of where people are coming 
> from in some of the other meta theme categories. Also, some cultural 
> sensitivity here, Sean. The Americans, in particular, are far more 
> exercised about this stuff than most other countries, and not only 
> make up the majority of HPfGU membership, but will probably be 
> genuinely interested to read old discussions of this sort - the 
> issues are as live as ever in the US, as far as I can judge.

You misunderstand. I wasn't arguing for jettisoning the entire category, but
making a distinction between _religious_ censorship and _secular_ censorship.
That's hardly cultural insensitivity. But perhaps an American is a better
judge than I.

I don't think the Stouffer case is relevant to a censorship discussion at all.
Please look at the following club posts: 765,766,768,769,773,3090,3387,3391,3396.

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