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On Banning:
Banning Gone with the Wind because it has racist themes is equally as ridiculous as churches banning Harry Potter because the books advocate magic. Finding something offensive is not a bad thing, and controversial topics allow the reader to further develop their cognitive abilities because they are forced to confront and grapple with these converse ideas and emotions. Simply banning something because you find it offensive is overlooking the greatest aspect of that book or movie or object–it's ability to teach and inform.
Gone with the Wind is not only a fantastic movie as far as acting and cinematography, but it is historically accurate in depicting the romanticization of the post-antebellum South. To not read it or watch it is to do yourself an injustice. Not only are you depriving yourself of history, but also you are perpetuating your close-mindedness. If you refuse to acknowledge one topic, you will refuse to acknowledge a second or third as well. Shutting yourself off from something because you find it offensive is not helping you grow as a person, rather you are stagnating.
In addition, what are the consequences to banning something? Why, you increase its popularity. The very thing you are just trying to rid the world of is suddenly in high demand. Newton's third law of physics says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. By pushing so far one way, as in to ban the book, you have spurred its resurgence.
The banning of the confederate flag has acted as a catalyst to banning other controversial things. If you ban Gone with the Wind, it will only further this attitude of a toddler, that if you don't see it, it must not exist. Racism will endure even if you ban every book and movie in the world because racism has nothing to do with the book or movie. It has to do with your own prejudices, and those are brought on by refusing to see or learn about what is controversial and the perpetuation of your close-mindedness.
Professionals have slammed teachers who have been reporting children as young as five for being racist, saying that making children frightened to ask questions is unhealthy. The comments come after parent Hayley White was summoned to her seven-year-old son’s primary
They don't want children to think, they want them to obey and become just another sheep in the flock to control. Personal attacks like labeling a child as a racist for asking a simple question are increasingly common, and it is designed to scare the child or children into submission. If they are afraid to ask questions for fear of being labeled as something, then they will just go with the flow.
This practice needs to be stopped. Children say and ask the darndest things, and there is no reason to punish them so severe.
Vice President Joe Biden staked his claim to the labor vote by declaring that “it’s time to take back America” in order to ensure that the middle class gets an “equal share” of prosperity in the country. “If we don’t, America’s in trouble,” Biden said in Detroit Monday. Biden’s comments come shortly after Attorney General Eric Holder said that such language is racist. “There’s a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that’s directed at me [and] directed at the president,” Holder told ABC last month, per the Hill. “You know, people talking about taking their country back. . . . There’s a certain racial component to this for some people. I don’t think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there’s a racial animus.” And Obama agrees, or seemed to think so in 2011, according to U.S. News and World Report’s Ken Walsh. “A guest suggested that when Tea Party activists said they wanted to ‘take back’ their country, their real motivation was to stir up anger and anxiety at having a black president, and Obama didn’t dispute the idea,” Walsh wrote. “He agreed that there was a ‘subterranean agenda’ in the anti-Obama movement — a racially biased one — that was unfortunate. But he sadly conceded that there was little he could do about it.”
"Take back America" is not racist. Anything that upsets Obama and Holder is automatically deemed racist, and I am sick of it! They use race as an excuse for anything and everything. People's oversensitivity of race is going to end like the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, where when something racial actually does happen no one is going believe them.
Obama and Holder are racial baiters themselves and should both be forced to take a class on racism and what it actually looks like. Statements they disagree with are not and never will be racist.