Crushing sarcasm never goes out of style.

So often miserable people want others to be miserable like them. The gun toting gun lobbyists of the US will never see that if the public don’t have guns they can’t shoot each other, themselves or family members, even by accident.

A home, enough food and access to a decent education and free healthcare. This is possible for everyone but the rich ones really want to keep the plebs in their place.

Meanwhile mature adults who want children have a VERY difficult time trying to adopt.

pWnEd!

Be more precise, please - is it Gandalf or Harry Potter poison?

Are all schools now going to exclusively stock See Spot Run and The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Or are those stories going to make people uncomfortable also?

I actually read this book in high school (in Canada). The fact that it had uncomfortable subject matter made it a really good read, and it's among one of my favourite books from school.

Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people. - Heinrich Heine

TKAM has been moving on and off the banned books lists for decades. My kids read it (2016, 2017) and were better off for doing so. They asked me poignant questions that we discussed frankly. Intentionally thought-provoking. I loved it and so did my kids.

It infuriates me when they do anything except PROMOTE this book.

This will not be a popular post and I accept that - but let me just make this simple...this 'woke' thing is just stupid, enough already....I am the most accepting person out there, have friends from all walks of life and circumstance but this has just gotten to be ridiculous....you're just going to white wash and erase history now?

More books banned for dumb reasons. Harry Potter, witchcraft. Front Desk, a book about Chinese immigrants trying to make money, for teaching critical race theory(it doesn’t) Maus, for nudity and suicide, and making people uncomfortable. Google these books, them being banned is so stupid.

If they didn't ban books, where would we get our reading list

They call liberals "snowflakes" on one hand and clutch their pearls with "that makes them uncomfortable" with the other. The hypocrisy is the most infuriating part of having to navigate all of this.

Post: censorship is bad. BP: … oh f_ck

We read this, The Communist Manifesto, Go Ask Alice, and many more challenging books at my school: that’s what school is FOR.

In school, none of them learned how to discuss the meaning of a book, find out why it was written, understand literary tools in writing.. irony, etc. snd these are the people that ban books. This is so very sad. Reading opened my world to so many things, even uncomfortable things. Thats life. Good , bad and ugly

All Schools should HAVE to teach reality, like "To Kill A Mockingbird"

I'm sure they will replace the reading list with Green Eggs and Ham and Everybody poops. Unless that's offensive too than let the book burning commence (we don't need no education......) sad sad world

Things are really out of control with "trigger warnings" and book banning because it makes people uncomfortable. If what you read doesn't from time to time make your brain hurt, then you're overprotected. Even in this august, knowledgeable and sophisticated forum, there are loads of words you can't use, like your status after your life is over (a "d-word") and so many more. An archeology video course with a lecture on medical aspects of examining Egyptian mummy remains actually had a trigger warning at the beginning that there might be d**d human remains. Well, duh.... BoredPanda really should back off on the censorship.

They want a book about the South they can be comfortable with - like "Gone With the Wind".

Sir down, John

And there we go!

"Homosexual" behaviour is far more widespread than people (largely detached from and ignorant of the natural world) know. Which makes claims of such activity as "unnatural" rather pitiful if not hilarious.

Unfortunately true. Remember the chain gangs? One can only hope that this modern version at least involves some degree of choice by the convict and some recompense, but it's a very slippery slope.

I'm sorry I have to admit when my friends were discussing a school shooting, I asked which one. Now when I hear shooting I just ask was it USA. If yes then it's another day, outside I'm interested a little more. It's a bad thing to say, but you have shootings literally every week in schools and I cannot keep up. My country had one shooting, one bullet was shot from hunting rifle. In the last 32years. How? And we also have teenage prisoners, and vandals, and murders but nothing compared to USA. Most of our killings are drinking gone wild and one dies. It's not perfect but guns are not allowed and police cannot shoot the criminal in the back of the body, cannot do fatal shootings. Why do you allow this? Also how come you allow insurance companies decide who gets to live, if you expect doctors to act under oath they gave. You literally make the doctors profession invalid when giving treatment decision to nonmedical persons in stuffy office looking to hit commission

I had this talk with my mum last year. If this had to be done now a days, 100% people wouldn’t turn lights off

Shocking - a politician exposed a s a hypocrite! Australians have a joke: Q How do you know a politician is lying? A His lips are moving.

Yet anouther person who can't tell the difference between Communism and Socialism... >sigh<

Irony.

The phrase "the Nazis are back" makes me think of a horde of zombie Nazis

You had a minute and a half of commercial to book it. You had to stand as close to your destination as possible while still being able to see the tv, and then sprint. The absolute joy of getting back in time is a feeling I will never be able to replicate.

As a secondary school teacher for 25 years, if you worked out the hourly rate for teachers mathematically, we would be on less than 16 dollars per hour.

Been there, done that. 2 hrs to switch on a power outlet for an IBM 3274 control unit (1980s), which i had been assured 'yes, OF COURSE we checked that!.'

And also overpopulating the planet .

too many thinking life saving things like wearing a mask and washing your hands = control

Wait! Actual countries are sentient and speak?

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Don't mind me. I'm just covering up a comment of a greedy landlord and wage depressor.

and ada lovelace is missing out on the respect she deserves again

Absolute moron.

That’s the House of Lords. They get £300 just for turning up and subsidised lunch. The government however still did not want to help the huge number of poor children with free school lunches.