Let's Break Out the Pitchforks

In the future, we're going to burn books. We're going to take them off the shelf and throw them in to a large bonfire. We're going to sit back and watch them burn.

Why?

Because years from now the young adults of that generation won't need to know about curse words or drinking or smoking or sex. And these YA books today are corrupting teens' minds. That's why they go out drunk driving. That's why they smoke pot and have unprotected sex. That's why they go and get themselves killed or worse, get pregnant.

We're going to burn books, namely YA books because we don't want that to happen to the next generation.

WTF?

I was on borders.com the other day and they had a list of books that were banned in school. Like To Kill A Mockingbird and The Catcher and the Rye and two others I can't remember, but banning books? How medieval can you be?

We are in the twenty first century people. Times have changed. Just because a book deals with race or sex, doesn't mean we have to ban them.

If we read about drugs, drinking, and sex even if some books portray them in a good light or a bad one, then we are safe from it's grasp. If books that have racial slurs in them, books that talk about rape, and teenage pregnancy are gone from libraries then it'll solve everything.

Well, let me tell you something. Whoever is in control of banning books in school need a nice big reality check. And that goes for the parents too.

Teens are going to have sex no matter if it's in YA books or not. They're going to be doing drugs, getting pregnant and that won't give a crap if they read it in a book or not.

So don't go around banning books because they send across messages that are "inappropriate" because they depict the lives of teens across the world. Teens are going through these things and if you don't like it, oh well. That's life. Alright.

Glad we had that discussion.