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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
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Subject: Re: Re: Banning Books and Bibles
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Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 14:22:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  1 14:22:20 1986
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> 
> Well, at my high school (which had the *best* of two worlds--state control
> by the Indiana Bible-Belt pseudo-moralists, and local control by
> functionally illiterate parents who were afraid that their children might
> *learn* something and aspire to a better life), not only did we have a
> teacher get fired for teaching Catcher in the Rye, we were put into
> different *college track* english classes, based on whether our parents
> would allow us to read such stuff as:
> ...
> 	3. Animal Farm--Godless Communism.  Enough said.
> 
> Laurie Sefton

Sort of amazing when you consider that Animal Farm is a thinly disguised
attack on the Soviet Union.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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