Why the goblet of fire specifically?
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Also why was James and the giant peach banned? Who are these people?
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Why didn't you just enter that very question into your preferred search engine? This isn't to diss anyone or you specifically, I just don't get how nowadays more and more people don't use that resource for pretty basic and trivial questions like that. I mean it's not like looking for the answer to life, the universe and everything, where you probably wouldn't trust the mega companies with the results.
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I just marked your question, right-clicked for google search and got the answers to why both books were banned and who did. It's been lunatic bible thumpers. They accounted to most (western) book bans the last decades.
Those were easy, but I’ve found some are actually quite difficult to find a reason for. A school district near me was trying to ban Moxie (a book about girls protesting sexism and sexual assault in their school) and no one really bothered to give a reason at all.
I could have - and I often do Google shit -,* but I thought it would be more interesting to see if anyone else on the website knew instead.
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I assumed anyone who was put out by the prospect of answering wouldn't bother, and anyone who didn't mind wouldn't be bothered by providing an answer
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If we only asked each other the extremely philosophical questions it seems like we would lose a lot of interaction for no particular reason
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*questionable comma placement is questionable
Your response - which is appreciated - did provide some incite on the who, but not so much the why
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Google is actually saying a couple different possibilities for James and the Giant Peach - including a scene where a spider licks her lips being taken as sexual, the deaths of adults, and/or rhymes reference drug use. Which honestly seems it could have been simpler just to omit or minorly alter the drug references rather than ban the entire book
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I'm still unclear on why the goblet of fire was banned specifically mind you, as opposed to the entire series. I knew there was controversy over the witchcraft stuff for all the books. And I remember a lot of people being unhappy at order of the Phoenix - describing it as Harry's "angry book." Goblet of fire is arguably one of the darker books in the series, but hardly traumatizing
Apparently goblet of fire specifically was babe by a priest in Tennessee for the risk of "conjuring evil spirits". After discussing with many excorcists locally and in Rome he found the spells were real and may lead children astray...
James and the giant play apparently had to many dark undertones that may impact children even if they didn't understand what it meant. Also a scene where a spider kicked is lips could be considered sexual. Also witchcraft, crude language (the word ass is used somewhere in the book), racism (there's a statement that a character would rather be fried alive than be eaten by a Mexican),
"Mein Kampf" was banned in Germany until recently, and while I don't think books should be banned at all, I don't think it's really necessary for anyone to get their own picture of what Uncle A's intentions were.
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I think rather than trying to read everything that anyone wants to ban, one should rather try to find out who wants to and for what reason. I realize how it's getting ever more difficult to find gatekeepers to information I can trust, but I don't consider myself smarter than experts on any given topic. This leaves me at a certain level of uncertainty which is not always easy to deal with, but it still feels better than probably realizing, it's not that everyone around me is a moron, but maybe it's me who is. Or worse: not realizing that.
Goblet of Fire was my favorite of the series. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was on the reading lists at my middle school so that, to me, is a weird ban. Then again I read a few in high school that really should not have been in the school library, public library with content warning sure, but school, no.
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Edit:
Also why was James and the giant peach banned? Who are these people?
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I just marked your question, right-clicked for google search and got the answers to why both books were banned and who did. It's been lunatic bible thumpers. They accounted to most (western) book bans the last decades.
.
I assumed anyone who was put out by the prospect of answering wouldn't bother, and anyone who didn't mind wouldn't be bothered by providing an answer
.
If we only asked each other the extremely philosophical questions it seems like we would lose a lot of interaction for no particular reason
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*questionable comma placement is questionable
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Google is actually saying a couple different possibilities for James and the Giant Peach - including a scene where a spider licks her lips being taken as sexual, the deaths of adults, and/or rhymes reference drug use. Which honestly seems it could have been simpler just to omit or minorly alter the drug references rather than ban the entire book
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I'm still unclear on why the goblet of fire was banned specifically mind you, as opposed to the entire series. I knew there was controversy over the witchcraft stuff for all the books. And I remember a lot of people being unhappy at order of the Phoenix - describing it as Harry's "angry book." Goblet of fire is arguably one of the darker books in the series, but hardly traumatizing
James and the giant play apparently had to many dark undertones that may impact children even if they didn't understand what it meant. Also a scene where a spider kicked is lips could be considered sexual. Also witchcraft, crude language (the word ass is used somewhere in the book), racism (there's a statement that a character would rather be fried alive than be eaten by a Mexican),
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I think rather than trying to read everything that anyone wants to ban, one should rather try to find out who wants to and for what reason. I realize how it's getting ever more difficult to find gatekeepers to information I can trust, but I don't consider myself smarter than experts on any given topic. This leaves me at a certain level of uncertainty which is not always easy to deal with, but it still feels better than probably realizing, it's not that everyone around me is a moron, but maybe it's me who is. Or worse: not realizing that.
really caught my eye