My earlier post on Back Boobs was censored on Spark People--I had posted a link from my SP blog to this one. Because 1 person found it offensive.
It reminds me of when I tried to join Overeaters Anonymous and at my first meeting I tried to say something about food, I can't remember what, and I was yelled at because apparently at a meeting about eating and food, food is an absolutely taboo subject. I didn't last long at OA as you can imagine. I'm not very good at censoring my thoughts! Honest...direct...tactless....rude....that's me.
I'm not big on censorship in general. All but 1 comment on the link were positive, people laughing and saying I made their day. Reminds me of the Christian outrage pie for some reason.
There is a kind of local situation about censorship going on. You might remember, no matter where you live, that a couple of years ago
2 guys broke into a doctor's house in Connecticut and burned the house down with the family in it--the father barely escaped with his life (although he lost everything that had meaning to him). It was tragic and horrible and made headlines everywhere in state as well as national headlines. For reasons I can't comprehend, it has not gone to trial yet so there is no resolution. But someone wrote a book about it. The library in the town where it happened purchased a copy and citizens are outraged. Okay, I can understand that you aren't happy that your tax dollars bought the book. But
you don't need to read it just because it's in the library. The same library probably has copies of books like
Mein Kampf by Hitler. People have gone so far as to say they won't patronize Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Borders, etc if they carry the book on the home invasion. Huh? Yes, it might have been in poor taste to publish it before the trial and yes it might pollute the jury pool (not like having it on the cover of national magazines and in every local paper and local TV news show didn't do a good job of that already), but you can't punish retailers--or the library--for the book's existence.
We live in a free country. If something offends you, don't read it. Don't watch it. Don't look at it.
And yeah, I didn't link to Spark People. Right now, my spark is out.
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