Thursday, October 05, 2006

Lesson #3: People who want censorship, should be censored.

Coming in high in the irony department comes this little story from Conroe, Texas.

It seems that a book has created quite the controversy, as the father of one of the children asked to read it didn't agree with its content. The irony department kicks in when you know what the book it.

See, author Ray Bradbury wrote a book in 1953 about McCarthyism, the Nazi Book Burnings, and the suppression of authors in the Soviet Union during the Stalin era, but evidently, the message behind Fahrenheit 451 didn't sink in to one resident of Conroe.

The fact that a book about how censorship is wrong, is trying to be censored, puts this story up for Irony of the Year Award.

1 comment:

mattjustmull said...

"With God's name in vain being in there, that's the number one reason."

Yeah, because a Sophomore in High School can't handle that level of depravity.