Is Anyone Else Disturbed by this News? June 15, 2007
I was skimming the American Libraries Direct the other day and came across this article: Occult Concerns Jinx Teen Read Program. I can’t believe Pickens County pulled out of the collaborative Summer Reading Program all together. Couldn’t they just take another angle? Say mystery fiction or learning about new things? Not that I think that it’s all right to appease any kind of censors, but come on, give me a break! Hate to see what kind of unrest a Harry Potter themed party would have on the community–they’d probably burn someone at the stake.
[...] We should be very disturbed–not a funny. [...]
It’s the state of our country right now. Everyone wants to be P.C. all the time, and since people are lawsuit happy it might have panicked the library system. I wonder if they put out a disclaimer when they advertised the event like “these activities are purely for entertainment purposes, they are not meant to offend or alienate any religion.”