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		<title>By: Joline</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joline</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Three of the books named above were required to be read in my english classes in High School. And that was between 2004 and 2008.</description>
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		<title>By: nc</title>
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		<dc:creator>nc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ok, I&#039;ll take your word for it, she died from disease in Belsen-Bergen. Or is it Bergen-Belsen? Whoever said b******t needed to be accurate? And if the scientist who invented Zyklon-B agreed that it was used on humans, isn&#039;t it likely that following the allied occupation, he was simply made an offer he &quot;couldn&#039;t refuse&quot;? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has documented similar cases.

I didn&#039;t say nobody was murdered. Millions passed through those prisons. Murders happen in cities that large, certainly in prisons that large. My contention is that nobody was gassed. Stacks upon stacks of corpses, and they all happened to die of gassing? Funny, because they sure look uniformly emaciated to me. Emaciation accompanies /starvation./

Do you mean to imply that there were dozens of gas chambers? That&#039;s news to me. Please name them, because this is a major development in the one truly forbidden debate with literally *trillions* of dollars and the fate of a powerful nuclear state at stake.

The &quot;Nazis&quot; weren&#039;t damned at Nürnberg by gas chambers, they were damned by a process referred to by Robert Taft as &quot;Victor&#039;s justice&quot; in &quot;violation of the most basic principles of American justice and internationally accepted standards of justice,&quot; to the applause of US president  John F. Kennedy.

I&#039;m not going to invite you to STFD or STFU, I&#039;d rather you simply obliged my questions. I&#039;ll check back in three months.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, I&#8217;ll take your word for it, she died from disease in Belsen-Bergen. Or is it Bergen-Belsen? Whoever said b******t needed to be accurate? And if the scientist who invented Zyklon-B agreed that it was used on humans, isn&#8217;t it likely that following the allied occupation, he was simply made an offer he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t refuse&#8221;? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has documented similar cases.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t say nobody was murdered. Millions passed through those prisons. Murders happen in cities that large, certainly in prisons that large. My contention is that nobody was gassed. Stacks upon stacks of corpses, and they all happened to die of gassing? Funny, because they sure look uniformly emaciated to me. Emaciation accompanies /starvation./</p>
<p>Do you mean to imply that there were dozens of gas chambers? That&#8217;s news to me. Please name them, because this is a major development in the one truly forbidden debate with literally *trillions* of dollars and the fate of a powerful nuclear state at stake.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Nazis&#8221; weren&#8217;t damned at Nürnberg by gas chambers, they were damned by a process referred to by Robert Taft as &#8220;Victor&#8217;s justice&#8221; in &#8220;violation of the most basic principles of American justice and internationally accepted standards of justice,&#8221; to the applause of US president  John F. Kennedy.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not going to invite you to STFD or STFU, I&#8217;d rather you simply obliged my questions. I&#8217;ll check back in three months.</p>
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		<title>By: just me</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-2/#comment-1915352</link>
		<dc:creator>just me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Neil,

If you&#039;re going to spout b******t, make it accurate. Anne Frank died in Belsen-Bergen, not Auschwitz. Zylon-B was developed by the Bayer Corp. The scientist who invented it acknowledged it was used in Germany on human beings. Given the HUGE amount of bodies found in all the concentration camps, how can you say no one was murdered or gassed? Stacks upon stacks of corpses (most of them Jewish) and they all happened to die of disease? 

Perhaps there were gas chamber mock-ups found at Auschwitz, I don&#039;t know. What about all the other concentration camps? There were dozens. You want the world to believe all those gas chambers were mock-ups? Dayum, you Nazis are some clever dudes to mock-up the very evidence that damned you at the trials at Nuremburg. 

STFD &amp; STFU</description>
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<p>If you&#8217;re going to spout b******t, make it accurate. Anne Frank died in Belsen-Bergen, not Auschwitz. Zylon-B was developed by the Bayer Corp. The scientist who invented it acknowledged it was used in Germany on human beings. Given the HUGE amount of bodies found in all the concentration camps, how can you say no one was murdered or gassed? Stacks upon stacks of corpses (most of them Jewish) and they all happened to die of disease? </p>
<p>Perhaps there were gas chamber mock-ups found at Auschwitz, I don&#8217;t know. What about all the other concentration camps? There were dozens. You want the world to believe all those gas chambers were mock-ups? Dayum, you Nazis are some clever dudes to mock-up the very evidence that damned you at the trials at Nuremburg. </p>
<p>STFD &amp; STFU</p>
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		<title>By: Nic</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>good post</description>
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		<title>By: KenSch</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-2/#comment-1890511</link>
		<dc:creator>KenSch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve read most of these books, and now that I&#039;ve matured a bit I can see a point as to why attempts would be made to discourage youth from reading them.  At the time that I read them, I thought that they were works of literature, but now I question that; I believed that they were literature because that what I was led to believe.  I&#039;ve read much better written works that would never be considered &quot;literature&quot; by the literary crowd.  In order to be considered &quot;literature&quot; it seems that the work needs to have negative and corrupting elements that cause the reader to foster a self-defeating, self-destructive, pessimistic, and depraved Weltanschauung.  Yes, I hesitated a bit before including &quot;depraved&quot; because it is a bit archaic, but in truth that does seem the appropriate word.  We now live in a highly sexualized society, and it should come as no surprise since many people were self-propagandized by reading these so-called works of &quot;literature&quot;.  And now we are suffering the consequences as our society is clearly in decline.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve read most of these books, and now that I&#8217;ve matured a bit I can see a point as to why attempts would be made to discourage youth from reading them.  At the time that I read them, I thought that they were works of literature, but now I question that; I believed that they were literature because that what I was led to believe.  I&#8217;ve read much better written works that would never be considered &#8220;literature&#8221; by the literary crowd.  In order to be considered &#8220;literature&#8221; it seems that the work needs to have negative and corrupting elements that cause the reader to foster a self-defeating, self-destructive, pessimistic, and depraved Weltanschauung.  Yes, I hesitated a bit before including &#8220;depraved&#8221; because it is a bit archaic, but in truth that does seem the appropriate word.  We now live in a highly sexualized society, and it should come as no surprise since many people were self-propagandized by reading these so-called works of &#8220;literature&#8221;.  And now we are suffering the consequences as our society is clearly in decline.</p>
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		<title>By: Meg</title>
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		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just have one question for everyone: why do you all read this blog if you seem to hate Jill so much? I found the post pretty interesting - makes you think a bit. Seriously though, people, don&#039;t you have anything better to do than read a post and then totally rip the author to pieces? Go find another blog to read.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just have one question for everyone: why do you all read this blog if you seem to hate Jill so much? I found the post pretty interesting &#8211; makes you think a bit. Seriously though, people, don&#8217;t you have anything better to do than read a post and then totally rip the author to pieces? Go find another blog to read.</p>
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		<title>By: JF</title>
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		<dc:creator>JF</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have never seen such a sad collection of misguided, PC, unitelligble bullshit before. I grew up and live in a country where racism was law and perpetrated as an artform by blacks on whites and whites on blacks and pinks on greens and yellows on red etc. etc.. Most of you live in a country where, by law, it should not exist -- but it does. You look for it in every nook and cranny, find it in your fridge, in your politics, in your spoken language and in your schools and at every turn try and remind yourselves of how un-racist you really are. Don&#039;t you realise that by carrying on like this you will never get rid of it. Why don&#039;t you try to read your own literature with empathy and try to understand that some of it was written at a time when your society was different -- wrong but different. Then thank your lucky stars that you have, as a country, moved on in the meantime.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have never seen such a sad collection of misguided, PC, unitelligble bullshit before. I grew up and live in a country where racism was law and perpetrated as an artform by blacks on whites and whites on blacks and pinks on greens and yellows on red etc. etc.. Most of you live in a country where, by law, it should not exist &#8212; but it does. You look for it in every nook and cranny, find it in your fridge, in your politics, in your spoken language and in your schools and at every turn try and remind yourselves of how un-racist you really are. Don&#8217;t you realise that by carrying on like this you will never get rid of it. Why don&#8217;t you try to read your own literature with empathy and try to understand that some of it was written at a time when your society was different &#8212; wrong but different. Then thank your lucky stars that you have, as a country, moved on in the meantime.</p>
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		<title>By: A.J.</title>
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		<dc:creator>A.J.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have both Brave New World and Cacther in the Rye. I have not read Brave New World yet(but I intend to)I have however read Cacther in the Rye and it is now one of my favorite books, but I don&#039;t understand why it is supposedly &quot;racist&quot; but I don&#039;t want to be ignorant, so will someone please tell me why it may be racist? Maybe I just need to go back and read it again, but I didn&#039;t think it was racist when I read it. But once again I don&#039;t want to be ignorant so please let me know.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have both Brave New World and Cacther in the Rye. I have not read Brave New World yet(but I intend to)I have however read Cacther in the Rye and it is now one of my favorite books, but I don&#8217;t understand why it is supposedly &#8220;racist&#8221; but I don&#8217;t want to be ignorant, so will someone please tell me why it may be racist? Maybe I just need to go back and read it again, but I didn&#8217;t think it was racist when I read it. But once again I don&#8217;t want to be ignorant so please let me know.</p>
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		<title>By: Happy Face</title>
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		<dc:creator>Happy Face</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OMG,  I have read everyone of those books as did my geneation (those born in the 40&#039;s).  Granted they were difficult to compehend, but they are a look into what is happening in society today.  Stopping the population from readng them is not gong to stop people from engageing in them,  these &quot;activities have been around for as long as humans have inhabited the earth. 

Banning Books is really scarey.  I wonder if people know how scarey (dangerous) it is.

Happy Face,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OMG,  I have read everyone of those books as did my geneation (those born in the 40&#8242;s).  Granted they were difficult to compehend, but they are a look into what is happening in society today.  Stopping the population from readng them is not gong to stop people from engageing in them,  these &#8220;activities have been around for as long as humans have inhabited the earth. </p>
<p>Banning Books is really scarey.  I wonder if people know how scarey (dangerous) it is.</p>
<p>Happy Face,</p>
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		<title>By: Tamahome Jenkins</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tamahome Jenkins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe Brave New World is still being banned today because certain individuals can&#039;t handle the truth...</description>
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		<title>By: Emir Ahmet Bilgin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Emir Ahmet Bilgin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe it was censored in Turkey becouse the mentioned crisis hit Turkey too in those times and probably goverment was afraid of &quot;comunist-like&quot; tougths in the book back than. Becouse creator of the crisis was capitalism (reason of hunger wasn&#039;t inadequate production. people didnt have money to buy food and food was being wasted, destroyed).

so i believe they were afraid of an uproar in laborer class

or..well.. something like that.. It&#039;s an educated guess at best :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe it was censored in Turkey becouse the mentioned crisis hit Turkey too in those times and probably goverment was afraid of &#8220;comunist-like&#8221; tougths in the book back than. Becouse creator of the crisis was capitalism (reason of hunger wasn&#8217;t inadequate production. people didnt have money to buy food and food was being wasted, destroyed).</p>
<p>so i believe they were afraid of an uproar in laborer class</p>
<p>or..well.. something like that.. It&#8217;s an educated guess at best <img src='http://www.neatorama.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Tom B</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom B</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So what contemporary titles are being challenged?  Feed, by M.T. Anderson and Looking for Alaska, by John Green, are 2 titles I teach to sophomores that have received some scrutiny/objection from parents.  No outright ban(yet).

Feeling progressive in hindsight isn&#039;t all that difficult.  Who else is pushing today&#039;s envelope?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So what contemporary titles are being challenged?  Feed, by M.T. Anderson and Looking for Alaska, by John Green, are 2 titles I teach to sophomores that have received some scrutiny/objection from parents.  No outright ban(yet).</p>
<p>Feeling progressive in hindsight isn&#8217;t all that difficult.  Who else is pushing today&#8217;s envelope?</p>
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		<title>By: Davi B.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Davi B.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It´s quite impressive how dumb censorship can be around the globe. However, this list will be incomplete without titles banned in BRAZIL during military dictatorship. Facing this, believe me, it´d be endless!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It´s quite impressive how dumb censorship can be around the globe. However, this list will be incomplete without titles banned in BRAZIL during military dictatorship. Facing this, believe me, it´d be endless!</p>
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		<title>By: Huw</title>
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		<dc:creator>Huw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nevertheless you are a Nazi.</description>
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		<title>By: Neil</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Guys, if you post my rebuttal you have my word I will not post again. You have to admit it is intellectually stimulating stuff.</description>
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		<title>By: Neil</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can&#039;t you crawl out of your tiny little box long enough to consider a perspective beyond such easily toppled straw-men? Not one of the books I mentioned denies the concentration of Jews as &quot;enemies of the state&quot; (the enigma code was broken by the Jewish-owned Allies with the help of a Jewish spy) into camps. None denies that the Germans tattooed prisoners as a failsafe method of registry which prevented the breakup of families among millions of other prisoners in the chaos of all-out war. None denies that Jews died, or even that undeserving families of Jewish partisans were shot by the hundreds as reprisals for savage terrorism on the eastern front. 

However, these books do challenge with devastating effect the notion that the Germans systematically murdered people, specifically with poison gas. Anne Frank died at Auschwitz from Typhus, transmitted by lice. In an effort to combat louse-borne Typhus, the Germans shaved prisoners&#039; heads and fumigated clothing, mattresses, etc. with a product called Zyklon B. This is admitted by the modern establishment. The *real* gas chambers the Germans used for this purpose can be seen at Dachau, which is no longer alleged to be a &quot;death camp&quot; because critical scientists could access it during the cold war. These gas chambers are equipped with all the features of a modern penal execution chamber: steel walls, peep-holes, ventilation systems. The &quot;gas chambers&quot; at Auschwitz are a laughable fraud: drafty rooms. The Jewish Holocaust &quot;denier&quot; David Cole secured undercover footage of Auschwitz head curator F. Piper privately admitting to a fellow Jew that these &quot;gas chambers&quot; were post-war Soviet propaganda mock-ups, just as phony as the dozens of &quot;holocaust&quot; and &quot;6 million killed&quot; allegations leveled by New York Jews at the Germans and others BEFORE Hitler came to power (jaw-droppingly documented in THE FIRST HOLOCAUST, another *truly* BANNED book).

Thousands of other wild allegations were made, from human soap to human skin lampshades, and these have finally been admitted to be lies by the establishment. Why? Because it is so easy to simply test the artifacts. Auschwitz, however, is off-limits. This legend is the foundation stone of the state of Israel; it has financed 95+% of Israel&#039;s state infrastructure, including its massive arsenal of nuclear weapons. It is the legend that protects the critical immunity of the west&#039;s media barons, essentially all of whom are Jews, and where they aren&#039;t, their content directors are. Anybody who dares cross these people is hounded from his job, shunned by his colleagues (including the cowards who agree with him behind closed doors), and imprisoned. The effect is the drastically disproportionate and fantastic representation of early 20th century history.

Consider the Holodomor, in which tens of millions of mostly Ukrainian Christians were murdered by the Jew Lazar Kaganovich and his Jewish NKVD deputies. He told his nephew-biographer in the late 80s &quot;Whatever is best for the Jews. Let only that guide your actions.&quot; And he did. The reason we never hear of him or his crimes is that the Ukrainians do not own Hollywood, they do not occupy and intimidate our parliaments and academies, our publishing houses, etc. And nor would they try, as their religion is open to all, not only some &quot;chosen&quot; few. I am not a Christian, but I admire the beauty if its compassion and love. Judaism, despite its brilliant public spin, is a religion of tribal unity and hatred. According to its holiest text, the Talmud, Jesus is in hell boiling in his own excrement. (Tractate Gittin 57a) And though I am quite sincere and entirely friendly to strangers, you say I should be there with him.

YOU, the television-lobotomized, hoodwinked Briton are the reason Britain criminalizes thought. Free Simon Sheppard and Luke O’Farrel! They are true Englishmen, by the standards of when England was English.

For a mind-blowing explanation of Jewish rule, read UCLB Professor Kevin MacDonald&#039;s THE CULTURE OF CRITIQUE.

For a mind-blowing explanation of the origins of WWII, Israel, the lies about Hitler and Germany, read speeches by Jewish hero Benjamin Freedman. The man was one of the top Zionists in the world, an advisor to several US presidents, a true power broker in 20th century Zionist destruction of Western civilization. One day he defected, and spent the rest of his life and massive fortune telling the truth. Your view of the world will never be the same.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can&#8217;t you crawl out of your tiny little box long enough to consider a perspective beyond such easily toppled straw-men? Not one of the books I mentioned denies the concentration of Jews as &#8220;enemies of the state&#8221; (the enigma code was broken by the Jewish-owned Allies with the help of a Jewish spy) into camps. None denies that the Germans tattooed prisoners as a failsafe method of registry which prevented the breakup of families among millions of other prisoners in the chaos of all-out war. None denies that Jews died, or even that undeserving families of Jewish partisans were shot by the hundreds as reprisals for savage terrorism on the eastern front. </p>
<p>However, these books do challenge with devastating effect the notion that the Germans systematically murdered people, specifically with poison gas. Anne Frank died at Auschwitz from Typhus, transmitted by lice. In an effort to combat louse-borne Typhus, the Germans shaved prisoners&#8217; heads and fumigated clothing, mattresses, etc. with a product called Zyklon B. This is admitted by the modern establishment. The *real* gas chambers the Germans used for this purpose can be seen at Dachau, which is no longer alleged to be a &#8220;death camp&#8221; because critical scientists could access it during the cold war. These gas chambers are equipped with all the features of a modern penal execution chamber: steel walls, peep-holes, ventilation systems. The &#8220;gas chambers&#8221; at Auschwitz are a laughable fraud: drafty rooms. The Jewish Holocaust &#8220;denier&#8221; David Cole secured undercover footage of Auschwitz head curator F. Piper privately admitting to a fellow Jew that these &#8220;gas chambers&#8221; were post-war Soviet propaganda mock-ups, just as phony as the dozens of &#8220;holocaust&#8221; and &#8220;6 million killed&#8221; allegations leveled by New York Jews at the Germans and others BEFORE Hitler came to power (jaw-droppingly documented in THE FIRST HOLOCAUST, another *truly* BANNED book).</p>
<p>Thousands of other wild allegations were made, from human soap to human skin lampshades, and these have finally been admitted to be lies by the establishment. Why? Because it is so easy to simply test the artifacts. Auschwitz, however, is off-limits. This legend is the foundation stone of the state of Israel; it has financed 95+% of Israel&#8217;s state infrastructure, including its massive arsenal of nuclear weapons. It is the legend that protects the critical immunity of the west&#8217;s media barons, essentially all of whom are Jews, and where they aren&#8217;t, their content directors are. Anybody who dares cross these people is hounded from his job, shunned by his colleagues (including the cowards who agree with him behind closed doors), and imprisoned. The effect is the drastically disproportionate and fantastic representation of early 20th century history.</p>
<p>Consider the Holodomor, in which tens of millions of mostly Ukrainian Christians were murdered by the Jew Lazar Kaganovich and his Jewish NKVD deputies. He told his nephew-biographer in the late 80s &#8220;Whatever is best for the Jews. Let only that guide your actions.&#8221; And he did. The reason we never hear of him or his crimes is that the Ukrainians do not own Hollywood, they do not occupy and intimidate our parliaments and academies, our publishing houses, etc. And nor would they try, as their religion is open to all, not only some &#8220;chosen&#8221; few. I am not a Christian, but I admire the beauty if its compassion and love. Judaism, despite its brilliant public spin, is a religion of tribal unity and hatred. According to its holiest text, the Talmud, Jesus is in hell boiling in his own excrement. (Tractate Gittin 57a) And though I am quite sincere and entirely friendly to strangers, you say I should be there with him.</p>
<p>YOU, the television-lobotomized, hoodwinked Briton are the reason Britain criminalizes thought. Free Simon Sheppard and Luke O’Farrel! They are true Englishmen, by the standards of when England was English.</p>
<p>For a mind-blowing explanation of Jewish rule, read UCLB Professor Kevin MacDonald&#8217;s THE CULTURE OF CRITIQUE.</p>
<p>For a mind-blowing explanation of the origins of WWII, Israel, the lies about Hitler and Germany, read speeches by Jewish hero Benjamin Freedman. The man was one of the top Zionists in the world, an advisor to several US presidents, a true power broker in 20th century Zionist destruction of Western civilization. One day he defected, and spent the rest of his life and massive fortune telling the truth. Your view of the world will never be the same.</p>
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		<title>By: Jill Harness</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jill Harness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ Rabbitspade: The book in question here is the Catcher in The Rye. You&#039;re going to have to work a lot harder than that to prove to me that J.D. Salinger or Holden Caulfield is racist against whites OR blacks.

Of course, this is the internet and you seem to be a general sh*t stirrer, so you probably didn&#039;t even read the article. You just found one thing you could start drama over, and jumped on it. Good job. 

And then, to take it a step further, you decided that anyone who does not conform to your world view must be an idiotic follower that lives in the Mid West. How silly of me to forget the rules of internet trolls. 

Go ahead and live in your silly little internet world, I&#039;m sure you&#039;ll be very happy there pretending yourself to be so superior to everyone else. Have fun with that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Rabbitspade: The book in question here is the Catcher in The Rye. You&#8217;re going to have to work a lot harder than that to prove to me that J.D. Salinger or Holden Caulfield is racist against whites OR blacks.</p>
<p>Of course, this is the internet and you seem to be a general sh*t stirrer, so you probably didn&#8217;t even read the article. You just found one thing you could start drama over, and jumped on it. Good job. </p>
<p>And then, to take it a step further, you decided that anyone who does not conform to your world view must be an idiotic follower that lives in the Mid West. How silly of me to forget the rules of internet trolls. </p>
<p>Go ahead and live in your silly little internet world, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be very happy there pretending yourself to be so superior to everyone else. Have fun with that.</p>
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		<title>By: Huw</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-2/#comment-1499086</link>
		<dc:creator>Huw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh Neil

In the 80s I drove a bus for the disabled of North London. A huge number of elderly people (20 or 30), some with Alzheimers, had tattoos from the camps. Many lost their whole families to the gas. My headmistress was the only member of her family to survive the Warsaw Ghetto and its dissolution. 

They are now pretty much all dead, and people like you will allow their memory to be libelled. The Nazis not only left the evidence of the camps and their victims to be discovered by the allied advance. They wrote it all down; the best gas to use, the best way to use the resources taken from victims, the best way to dispose of the faeces left behind by the dying. It&#039;s all there to see in museums all across Europe, and I&#039;ve spoken to survivors face to face, some so ill they wouldn&#039;t have the mental resources to make it up.

Maybe people who deny the holocaust shouldn&#039;t be locked up. But maybe they should be boiled alive in their own excrement.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh Neil</p>
<p>In the 80s I drove a bus for the disabled of North London. A huge number of elderly people (20 or 30), some with Alzheimers, had tattoos from the camps. Many lost their whole families to the gas. My headmistress was the only member of her family to survive the Warsaw Ghetto and its dissolution. </p>
<p>They are now pretty much all dead, and people like you will allow their memory to be libelled. The Nazis not only left the evidence of the camps and their victims to be discovered by the allied advance. They wrote it all down; the best gas to use, the best way to use the resources taken from victims, the best way to dispose of the faeces left behind by the dying. It&#8217;s all there to see in museums all across Europe, and I&#8217;ve spoken to survivors face to face, some so ill they wouldn&#8217;t have the mental resources to make it up.</p>
<p>Maybe people who deny the holocaust shouldn&#8217;t be locked up. But maybe they should be boiled alive in their own excrement.</p>
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		<title>By: Neil</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-2/#comment-1498061</link>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very nice, but just as I scratched my head in wonder at &quot;banned book reading&quot; displays at my high school and university, I must ask: what of the *truly* banned books, not the sexually &quot;liberating&quot; tomes of yesterday that subverted western decency norms re all things considered depraved by less-than-puritans, I mean the texts that earn stiff prison sentences across Europe, Canada and elsewhere *right now*? These all seem to surround the ceaselessly (and brilliantly) establishment-obfuscated and titanically politically implicative subject of the &quot;holocaust&quot; or its legendary &quot;gas chambers&quot; and, to a lesser extent, that subject we just don&#039;t have the nerve to confront honestly: race. Examples: Germar Rudolf&#039;s Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of &quot;Truth&quot; and &quot;Memory;&quot; Jürgen Graf&#039;s The Giant with the Feet of Clay; or Professor Faurisson&#039;s devastating critique of Pressac&#039;s Technique and Operation of Auschwitz Gas Chambers. The tribe that pushed The Catcher in the Rye is now the unrivaled ruling class, rendered uniquely immune to criticism (and uniquely served by middle east wars) by the legends these books challenge. Instead of forever reminiscing about exaggerated and ultimately harmless book bans of yesterday, let us talk about the books we aren&#039;t allowed legal access to TODAY.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very nice, but just as I scratched my head in wonder at &#8220;banned book reading&#8221; displays at my high school and university, I must ask: what of the *truly* banned books, not the sexually &#8220;liberating&#8221; tomes of yesterday that subverted western decency norms re all things considered depraved by less-than-puritans, I mean the texts that earn stiff prison sentences across Europe, Canada and elsewhere *right now*? These all seem to surround the ceaselessly (and brilliantly) establishment-obfuscated and titanically politically implicative subject of the &#8220;holocaust&#8221; or its legendary &#8220;gas chambers&#8221; and, to a lesser extent, that subject we just don&#8217;t have the nerve to confront honestly: race. Examples: Germar Rudolf&#8217;s Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of &#8220;Truth&#8221; and &#8220;Memory;&#8221; Jürgen Graf&#8217;s The Giant with the Feet of Clay; or Professor Faurisson&#8217;s devastating critique of Pressac&#8217;s Technique and Operation of Auschwitz Gas Chambers. The tribe that pushed The Catcher in the Rye is now the unrivaled ruling class, rendered uniquely immune to criticism (and uniquely served by middle east wars) by the legends these books challenge. Instead of forever reminiscing about exaggerated and ultimately harmless book bans of yesterday, let us talk about the books we aren&#8217;t allowed legal access to TODAY.</p>
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		<title>By: rabbitspade</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-2/#comment-1497838</link>
		<dc:creator>rabbitspade</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, Jill. You&#039;ve dug yourself deeper with this &#039;update&#039;:  &quot; I meant this statement as how the book can be racist against both blacks and whites at the same time&quot;

If you find racism against 2 groups to be incomprehensible, then I&#039;ve got something that will blow your mind: some people actually are prejudiced against THREE GROUPS OF PEOPLE. Or FOUR.

If that&#039;s not bizarre enough, you&#039;ll be flabbergasted to learn that SOME PEOPLE DON&#039;T LIKE THEIR OWN ETHNIC GROUP. Yes, Jill, its true. Sometimes they even desire to emigrate because of this.

Thanks Jill. I&#039;m glad I could teach you something in between all that time you spend culturally enriching yourself with readers digest and family package tours.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, Jill. You&#8217;ve dug yourself deeper with this &#8216;update&#8217;:  &#8221; I meant this statement as how the book can be racist against both blacks and whites at the same time&#8221;</p>
<p>If you find racism against 2 groups to be incomprehensible, then I&#8217;ve got something that will blow your mind: some people actually are prejudiced against THREE GROUPS OF PEOPLE. Or FOUR.</p>
<p>If that&#8217;s not bizarre enough, you&#8217;ll be flabbergasted to learn that SOME PEOPLE DON&#8217;T LIKE THEIR OWN ETHNIC GROUP. Yes, Jill, its true. Sometimes they even desire to emigrate because of this.</p>
<p>Thanks Jill. I&#8217;m glad I could teach you something in between all that time you spend culturally enriching yourself with readers digest and family package tours.</p>
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		<title>By: Gabe</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-2/#comment-1496522</link>
		<dc:creator>Gabe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That plot summary for Brave New World is total crap. Go to wiki for the real summary and stop pulling stuff from Amazon. I don’t think any one at Amazon even read these books. In fact most of these summaries suck. The Joads as strike breakers? What? Really.  It&#039;s been a long time since I read Grapes Of Wrath but WTF.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That plot summary for Brave New World is total crap. Go to wiki for the real summary and stop pulling stuff from Amazon. I don’t think any one at Amazon even read these books. In fact most of these summaries suck. The Joads as strike breakers? What? Really.  It&#8217;s been a long time since I read Grapes Of Wrath but WTF.</p>
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		<title>By: shea</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-2/#comment-1495580</link>
		<dc:creator>shea</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve read almost all of these books.</description>
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		<title>By: nigel</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-2/#comment-1494723</link>
		<dc:creator>nigel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;How anything can be racist and anti-white, I don’t know.&quot;

Widen the prism you see the world through. Then try again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;How anything can be racist and anti-white, I don’t know.&#8221;</p>
<p>Widen the prism you see the world through. Then try again.</p>
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		<title>By: Trebond</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-2/#comment-1494269</link>
		<dc:creator>Trebond</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I read some of the books on this list and though books should never be banned, I thought Catcher in the Rye was eh at best. I suppose it was well-written since I hated Holden Caulfield but that&#039;s it; I HATED him. He would never shut up or stop whining and I was apathetic towards what happened to him. I really wanted him to die.

But that&#039;s my opinion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read some of the books on this list and though books should never be banned, I thought Catcher in the Rye was eh at best. I suppose it was well-written since I hated Holden Caulfield but that&#8217;s it; I HATED him. He would never shut up or stop whining and I was apathetic towards what happened to him. I really wanted him to die.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s my opinion.</p>
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		<title>By: SolarGoddess</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1492788</link>
		<dc:creator>SolarGoddess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think that I have had quite enough of black and white. It seems no matter what the original topic, I constantly find that people always respond to the racist implication in most every post I read.

I, for one, am finished using &#039;white&#039; to represent a race of Caucasians. White in American society refers to clean, pure, untouched and/or sacred. Black usually refers to dirty, unclean, nasty, and most certainly impure.

From now on, I will refer to people as Caucasians and Negroid. If you have been so brainwashed as to associate those 2 races with clean/unclean or pure/impure...then you need to do a self-adjustment because that is the basic definition of a racist.

Also, anyone of the Caucasian race who insists on being called white is about as racists as you can get.

I don&#039;t think we need to worry too much about what Negroid persons want to be called because even they don&#039;t know, for the most part.

Maybe they need another &#039;leader&#039; to help them figure that out.

I say that because after so many years of freedom it is easier to find a stable nuclear family of Native Americans than it is a Negroid family.

About the only thing Negroids seem to agree on is the lust to find a Caucasian woman...even if it means deserting the women of their own race completely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think that I have had quite enough of black and white. It seems no matter what the original topic, I constantly find that people always respond to the racist implication in most every post I read.</p>
<p>I, for one, am finished using &#8216;white&#8217; to represent a race of Caucasians. White in American society refers to clean, pure, untouched and/or sacred. Black usually refers to dirty, unclean, nasty, and most certainly impure.</p>
<p>From now on, I will refer to people as Caucasians and Negroid. If you have been so brainwashed as to associate those 2 races with clean/unclean or pure/impure&#8230;then you need to do a self-adjustment because that is the basic definition of a racist.</p>
<p>Also, anyone of the Caucasian race who insists on being called white is about as racists as you can get.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think we need to worry too much about what Negroid persons want to be called because even they don&#8217;t know, for the most part.</p>
<p>Maybe they need another &#8216;leader&#8217; to help them figure that out.</p>
<p>I say that because after so many years of freedom it is easier to find a stable nuclear family of Native Americans than it is a Negroid family.</p>
<p>About the only thing Negroids seem to agree on is the lust to find a Caucasian woman&#8230;even if it means deserting the women of their own race completely.</p>
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		<title>By: me</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1492600</link>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;How anything can be racist and anti-white, I don’t know.&quot;

/scarcasm
LoL yeah its not possible to be racist to white people because they are all the same, we should beat down some  stupid fuckin crackers</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;How anything can be racist and anti-white, I don’t know.&#8221;</p>
<p>/scarcasm<br />
LoL yeah its not possible to be racist to white people because they are all the same, we should beat down some  stupid fuckin crackers</p>
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		<title>By: Jim</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1492507</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Where&#039;s Huckleberry Finn on this list?</description>
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		<title>By: TDubb</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1492503</link>
		<dc:creator>TDubb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#34 - was there any book left?  there was a LOAD of indecent puns in romeo and juliet...</description>
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		<title>By: Jared Childers</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1491208</link>
		<dc:creator>Jared Childers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;And, foremost, because it questioned the way Proper Folks live: I’m going to do the right thing, says Huck, even if it means I’m going to Hell! That’s a tough statement, coming from someone who really believes in Hell.&quot;

It&#039;s a sacrifice that surpasses Christ&#039;s. A child shall lead us, indeed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;And, foremost, because it questioned the way Proper Folks live: I’m going to do the right thing, says Huck, even if it means I’m going to Hell! That’s a tough statement, coming from someone who really believes in Hell.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a sacrifice that surpasses Christ&#8217;s. A child shall lead us, indeed.</p>
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		<title>By: amdela</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1490831</link>
		<dc:creator>amdela</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here in Canada, The Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide and Sluaghterhouse Five were banned.  The Guide because of the one use of the word &quot;Wh*re&quot;, and Slaughterhouse becuase of the m-effer word.  Apparently, according to Vonnegut, the authorities were worried sons of mothers everywhere wouldn&#039;t be able to resist their primal urges if they read such a word.

It&#039;s still incomprehensible to me that a book can be banned and kept away from our children due to a word.  TG for my hs English teacher who gave me a copy of Slaughterhouse Five anyway, and incited a love for me...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here in Canada, The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide and Sluaghterhouse Five were banned.  The Guide because of the one use of the word &#8220;Wh*re&#8221;, and Slaughterhouse becuase of the m-effer word.  Apparently, according to Vonnegut, the authorities were worried sons of mothers everywhere wouldn&#8217;t be able to resist their primal urges if they read such a word.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s still incomprehensible to me that a book can be banned and kept away from our children due to a word.  TG for my hs English teacher who gave me a copy of Slaughterhouse Five anyway, and incited a love for me&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: The El Bee En</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1490777</link>
		<dc:creator>The El Bee En</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Two observations: Regarding &quot;Catcher in the Rye&quot; I don&#039;t have a copy of it before me, but I think that Holden was kicked out of yet another prep school, as opposed to being kicked out of a &quot;reform&quot; school. I&#039;m just saying, not looking to provoke an urination contest with anyone. Regarding racism and being &quot;anti-white&quot; sorry to shatter the illusions people have here at the dawn of the 21st century, but racism IS a &quot;two way street&quot; and a great many people who are not from the European tradition, are anti-white. Speaking for myself I try not to let that effect my interactions with people from other groups. I don&#039;t really care if you are racist or not, you are entitled to your feelings whatever they may be, and so am I. When I encounter those narrow world viewpoints, which are prevalent in the blogosphere, I think to myself: &quot;the white man&#039;s burden sure is heavy, and one that some folks just love to carry!&quot; I enjoyed the post, and I would agree that when I read the &quot;Tropic of Cancer&quot; for the first time, in high school back when Nixon was in the White House, I learned a new and powerful word that I found out was toxic to relationships between men and women. I taught my son to never call a woman, “it” in anger, or jest unless his desire was to terminate the relationship with extreme prejudice.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two observations: Regarding &#8220;Catcher in the Rye&#8221; I don&#8217;t have a copy of it before me, but I think that Holden was kicked out of yet another prep school, as opposed to being kicked out of a &#8220;reform&#8221; school. I&#8217;m just saying, not looking to provoke an urination contest with anyone. Regarding racism and being &#8220;anti-white&#8221; sorry to shatter the illusions people have here at the dawn of the 21st century, but racism IS a &#8220;two way street&#8221; and a great many people who are not from the European tradition, are anti-white. Speaking for myself I try not to let that effect my interactions with people from other groups. I don&#8217;t really care if you are racist or not, you are entitled to your feelings whatever they may be, and so am I. When I encounter those narrow world viewpoints, which are prevalent in the blogosphere, I think to myself: &#8220;the white man&#8217;s burden sure is heavy, and one that some folks just love to carry!&#8221; I enjoyed the post, and I would agree that when I read the &#8220;Tropic of Cancer&#8221; for the first time, in high school back when Nixon was in the White House, I learned a new and powerful word that I found out was toxic to relationships between men and women. I taught my son to never call a woman, “it” in anger, or jest unless his desire was to terminate the relationship with extreme prejudice.</p>
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		<title>By: CCBC</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1490487</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought the reason Catcher in the Rye was banned was because it used the F word. (Did it matter that Holden Caulfield hated the word?)
And I thought Grapes of Wrath was banned because of the scene where Rose(of Sharon) gives her breast to a starving man. (Subversive as hell to a society that says people are poor because they deserve it and that also elevates motherhood.)
Where is my favorite banned book, Huckleberry Finn? Now it&#039;s banned because Twain used the N word, but in my childhood, it was banned for violence (like when Huck&#039;s friend is murdered) and slighting references to concepts of Southern gallantry. And, foremost, because it questioned the way Proper Folks live: I&#039;m going to do the right thing, says Huck, even if it means I&#039;m going to Hell! That&#039;s a tough statement, coming from someone who really believes in Hell.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought the reason Catcher in the Rye was banned was because it used the F word. (Did it matter that Holden Caulfield hated the word?)<br />
And I thought Grapes of Wrath was banned because of the scene where Rose(of Sharon) gives her breast to a starving man. (Subversive as hell to a society that says people are poor because they deserve it and that also elevates motherhood.)<br />
Where is my favorite banned book, Huckleberry Finn? Now it&#8217;s banned because Twain used the N word, but in my childhood, it was banned for violence (like when Huck&#8217;s friend is murdered) and slighting references to concepts of Southern gallantry. And, foremost, because it questioned the way Proper Folks live: I&#8217;m going to do the right thing, says Huck, even if it means I&#8217;m going to Hell! That&#8217;s a tough statement, coming from someone who really believes in Hell.</p>
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		<title>By: Naldz Graphics</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1490418</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>never read this books.i just find it now looks interesting.</description>
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		<title>By: Jill Harness</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1489999</link>
		<dc:creator>Jill Harness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>oOPonyOo I think it can be used either way, as Lolita is now a term used for a sexually active and seductive young girl.
Although in this case, I probably should have just used her name to avoid confusion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oOPonyOo I think it can be used either way, as Lolita is now a term used for a sexually active and seductive young girl.<br />
Although in this case, I probably should have just used her name to avoid confusion.</p>
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		<title>By: oOPonyOo</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1489898</link>
		<dc:creator>oOPonyOo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting post.  Noticed one error:

Humbert tries to drug the Lolita to have his way with her, but she instead seduces him.

the Lolita?  Perhaps it is &quot;the&quot; as he later wrote a book about her.  =)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting post.  Noticed one error:</p>
<p>Humbert tries to drug the Lolita to have his way with her, but she instead seduces him.</p>
<p>the Lolita?  Perhaps it is &#8220;the&#8221; as he later wrote a book about her.  =)</p>
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		<title>By: Jill Harness</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1489851</link>
		<dc:creator>Jill Harness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nielo, you easily could be, but we are discussing J.D. Salinger here, who is white.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nielo, you easily could be, but we are discussing J.D. Salinger here, who is white.</p>
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		<title>By: nielo</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1489596</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jill... Couldn&#039;t you be Asian, Pacific islander,Hispanic,  etc. and be a racist author against both black and white?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jill&#8230; Couldn&#8217;t you be Asian, Pacific islander,Hispanic,  etc. and be a racist author against both black and white?</p>
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		<title>By: Wok</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1489459</link>
		<dc:creator>Wok</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The greatest thing about all these books is that they&#039;re all bloody brilliant and the people who have a problem with them are afraid of their power.

I laugh at them in a cruel and bitter laugh, the stewards of a dead past.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The greatest thing about all these books is that they&#8217;re all bloody brilliant and the people who have a problem with them are afraid of their power.</p>
<p>I laugh at them in a cruel and bitter laugh, the stewards of a dead past.</p>
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		<title>By: Cori</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1489401</link>
		<dc:creator>Cori</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What about books that aren&#039;t on every banned book list on the internet? A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, or Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden. Though, I guess they aren&#039;t technically classics...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What about books that aren&#8217;t on every banned book list on the internet? A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, or Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden. Though, I guess they aren&#8217;t technically classics&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: dwiff</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1489333</link>
		<dc:creator>dwiff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you might want to add James Joyce&#039;s Ulysses and Henry Miller&#039;s Tropic of Cancer to the list, as these book&#039;s banning led to the most famous court cases in re book banning in the US...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you might want to add James Joyce&#8217;s Ulysses and Henry Miller&#8217;s Tropic of Cancer to the list, as these book&#8217;s banning led to the most famous court cases in re book banning in the US&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Allen T Garvin</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1489288</link>
		<dc:creator>Allen T Garvin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In high school, our 10th grade English teacher (this was early 80s) took a marks-a-lot and went through our text book, marking out every gloss of every indecent pun in Romeo &amp; Juliet. This just made everyone curious to seek out the unexpurgated version...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In high school, our 10th grade English teacher (this was early 80s) took a marks-a-lot and went through our text book, marking out every gloss of every indecent pun in Romeo &amp; Juliet. This just made everyone curious to seek out the unexpurgated version&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: SenorMysterioso</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1489152</link>
		<dc:creator>SenorMysterioso</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I often find that there is a lot of crossover on the banned books list and the required highschool reading list.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I often find that there is a lot of crossover on the banned books list and the required highschool reading list.</p>
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		<title>By: Cam</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1489141</link>
		<dc:creator>Cam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I had to read Catcher in the Rye and Lolita while in High School, and I thought they were great. Would never imagine them being banned before.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had to read Catcher in the Rye and Lolita while in High School, and I thought they were great. Would never imagine them being banned before.</p>
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		<title>By: hunderfund</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1489112</link>
		<dc:creator>hunderfund</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>read a lot of these for high school.</description>
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		<title>By: Skipweasel</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1489050</link>
		<dc:creator>Skipweasel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Somewhere I have a downloaded copy of A Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, banned some time in the sixties. Splendid book, provided you&#039;re careful, and lots of stuff to learn from it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Somewhere I have a downloaded copy of A Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, banned some time in the sixties. Splendid book, provided you&#8217;re careful, and lots of stuff to learn from it.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments</a></p>
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		<title>By: ThEgg</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1488927</link>
		<dc:creator>ThEgg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Geez, Christians.. Why so serious? Not trying to troll, but honestly, why ban a book in a whole county or country when you could just keep an eye on your kid like a good parent should do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Geez, Christians.. Why so serious? Not trying to troll, but honestly, why ban a book in a whole county or country when you could just keep an eye on your kid like a good parent should do.</p>
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		<title>By: TeaFizz</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1488856</link>
		<dc:creator>TeaFizz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Listen, communication is a TWO-WAY street, with BOTH parties (the person(s) communicating and the person(s) receiving the message) having a responsibility.

It is the responsibility of the person(s) communicating a message that it is made as clearly and understandably as possible in order for the intent of the message to be properly conveyed.

However, it is ALSO the responsibility of the person(s) who receive that message to ensure that they take in the message, and analyze it to ensure that they interpret it in the way it was intended (this necessarily - and, perhaps, especially - includes poorly constructed messages).

So, while the whole &quot;...anti-white and racist...&quot; remark may not have been the best-worded phrase ever uttered, I personally read it as I&#039;m sure it was intended (as Rudy mentions in comment #6).

By flying off the handle, those who complain about that statement are only proving themselves as reactionary and unthinking as those who banned the books in this post.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listen, communication is a TWO-WAY street, with BOTH parties (the person(s) communicating and the person(s) receiving the message) having a responsibility.</p>
<p>It is the responsibility of the person(s) communicating a message that it is made as clearly and understandably as possible in order for the intent of the message to be properly conveyed.</p>
<p>However, it is ALSO the responsibility of the person(s) who receive that message to ensure that they take in the message, and analyze it to ensure that they interpret it in the way it was intended (this necessarily &#8211; and, perhaps, especially &#8211; includes poorly constructed messages).</p>
<p>So, while the whole &#8220;&#8230;anti-white and racist&#8230;&#8221; remark may not have been the best-worded phrase ever uttered, I personally read it as I&#8217;m sure it was intended (as Rudy mentions in comment #6).</p>
<p>By flying off the handle, those who complain about that statement are only proving themselves as reactionary and unthinking as those who banned the books in this post.</p>
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		<title>By: DOuglas2</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1488830</link>
		<dc:creator>DOuglas2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The US government has just effectively banned the sale of any youth fiction printed in 1985 or before, 
The law is the &quot;Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act&quot; which took effect last Tuesday. 
The instructions from the Federal government regarding children&#039;s books are very clear: If it was published after 1985 it is fine. If it was published in 1985 or before, and the resale value makes it uneconomical to have it professionally tested for lead content, it must be destroyed.

http://www.cpsc.gov/about/cpsia/smbus/cpsiasbguide.pdf</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The US government has just effectively banned the sale of any youth fiction printed in 1985 or before,<br />
The law is the &#8220;Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act&#8221; which took effect last Tuesday.<br />
The instructions from the Federal government regarding children&#8217;s books are very clear: If it was published after 1985 it is fine. If it was published in 1985 or before, and the resale value makes it uneconomical to have it professionally tested for lead content, it must be destroyed.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cpsc.gov/about/cpsia/smbus/cpsiasbguide.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cpsc.gov/about/cpsia/smbus/cpsiasbguide.pdf</a></p>
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		<title>By: Lore</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1488730</link>
		<dc:creator>Lore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is it sad that I love to read but have never read any of these books. I&#039;m going to have to expand my reading list.</description>
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		<title>By: AlexLap</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-1488728</link>
		<dc:creator>AlexLap</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, i didn&#039;t read &quot;Lolita&quot; but i think it&#039;s cool book.</description>
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