posted March 03, 2012 12:17 PM            

this book is amongst the most banned and reinstated pieces of literature since books became widespread. but why?

the original fury with which it was received was partly because it depicted a white boy and a slave on equal terms, travelling together, and went so far as to give the slave a human character one could identify with...

also apparently the words "scratch" and "sweat" were considered so low-class as to approach profanity! it was considered poor taste and likely damaging to youthful morals to instate a HERO of such low class...

these days the word "nigger" is one of the reasons put up for banning it, also the racist portrayal of country southerners of all classes. so people on both sides of the spectrum are objecting to it once again.

this is a great example of how the same ideas can offend different groups of people in different times and though it may seem for different REASONS, at foundation those reasons are pretty much the same.

there have always been "protectors of the general morals" who thought they knew better than the rest of us what was "good for us", what was "sensible" and what was "offensive". AND people who were afraid public opinion might be turned against them for their race and/or belief systems...in other words, censors.

though this work is fiction, it is drawn from life, as twain explained. of course it shows his own viewpoint, but not so strongly that it can't be interpreted in almost as many ways as it has readers.

posted March 04, 2012 10:57 AM            

I want leftists to speak long and loudly...so America can get a really good look and listen to their crackpot ideas. The Occupy WS crowd was a case in point. I want them out in the streets before the election, howling, screeching and shrieking, getting in citizens faces, trashing parks and carrying signs which basically say..."Down with America".

posted March 04, 2012 07:20 PM            

but, jwhop, belittling people is another form of censorship. trying to delegitimize someone because they hold a different point of view just makes them dig their heels in.

posted March 05, 2012 05:26 PM            

I've posted a mission statement here several times and I'm not going to do it again.

By the way...in case you don't know, the word "teabagger" is an insider word used in the gay community to describe a particular kind of sexual act which the greatest majority of Americans would find disgusting.

The word has no real application to the Tea Party and no relevance. It's just one of the many leftist sexual slurs used by leftists to try to shut people up who disagree with them.

posted March 05, 2012 09:19 PM            

however as i understand it "teabagger" is a reference to the plight of tea party enthusiasts who are used, wrung out and tossed, being of temporary use to those who whip them up but no real value. i have never heard that definition of yours, but then i don't go looking for sleaze as a pastime.

it is far more obscure if used in that way than "sl*t", for instance, or "c*nt" as mark levin called the president the other day. i would bet most people have never heard such a definition.

as for pointing the finger at others, and saying "he did it first' well, i don't agree with that either. however that is part of your "stated mission" isn't it? because the "leftists" did it you decided to step to their level...

the one thing rush said in his so-called apology that i agree with (though it was disingenuous in the extreme) was that when you sink to the lowest level of your opponent THEY have won. we all do it sometimes but to make it your MO seems silly to me.

posted March 06, 2012 03:28 AM            

So says the GU Guru who occasionally gets his facts straight.

JW- with all due, erm......
Your internet search skills have been shown for what they are many, many, times. For years by many LLanders. .

posted March 06, 2012 04:13 PM            

AND, by the way, Cooper later apologized for using the term.

posted March 08, 2012 12:10 AM            

If you want to find out what "teabagger" means in the homosexual community, look it up yourself.

posted March 08, 2012 12:25 AM            

as someone else pointed out teabagging as you are harping on it is not an exclusively gay activity. in fact the FIRST google definition of it (as you INSIST it is meant)is in heterosexual terms, although there are other completely Asexual meanings that come before that.

so i have to ask you, since you focus on that ONE meaning and the homosexuality of anderson cooper...why are you so STUCK on it being a "disgusting" homosexual practice, when men and women do it too? why do you INSIST on the salacious definition just because someone who is likely gay but doesn't advertise it used it?

people said cary grant was gay too. his wives and daughter beg to differ. but just whose business is it and what difference did it make to his acting?

i always think there must be some underlying phobia when people harp on someone's sex or orientation when criticizing them. of course there are sleaze bags of every persuasion, so what's your problem?

posted March 08, 2012 12:01 PM            

It's a very long reach indeed for the idiot motormouth Olbermann to attempt to attach the word to Tea Party members...as though they referred to themselves and called themselves "teabaggers".

Mailing a tea bag to a member of Congress to remind them that East India tea was thrown into Boston Harbor to send a message to King George III that colonists were not going to pay a special tax he was attempting to levy on tea against the interests of colonists....is in no way connected to the homosexual act of so called "teabagging".

You really need to get your facts straight before popping off.

And, if you'd like to go incident by incident to see who is using language unfit to be broadcast on the air or written in newspapers or online blogs, I'll be happy to accomodate you.

If you decide to do so, I'll happily bury you with a barrage of mindless moron leftists who think they can say anything at all about conservatives.

Now, what would you call a 31 year old political activist who wants Americans to fund her protection against the hazards of nympho-like recreational sex?

What's next for this political activist? Will she next demand the taxpayers of American pay her chosen sexual partners for servicing her?

Let's see, we give Planned Parenthood almost half a billion dollars every year to dispense birth control pills for women.

posted March 08, 2012 12:19 PM            

i thought you would at least be able to hear T's reply if not mine. wrong again, my bad!

next you will be talking, like all the other rush-defenders, about how ed schultz called laura ingraham a **** ..well save it. in the first place, ed schultz KNOWS laura ingraham, and his apology was sincere and ACCEPTED. rush is trying to nullify what this young woman said by dirtying her name. she is entitled to sue his arse though i doubt she will since he is backed by a legion of lawyers she can't afford to combat (though if i were a law student i would take them on in her place. i have defended myself against bigger fish than limbaugh and won).

i don't care what rush says. he will get his. i had an email from someone or other asking me to sign a petition to get him cancelled, to which i replied i will let his sponsors do that but he is entitled to his twisted opinion! he only persuades more people that he is a bigheaded loudmouthed eejot every time he does something like this...got pipe? smoke that...

teabagging is not a "homosexual activity" anymore than kissing is. YOU suffer from homophobia my friend, plain as daylight. homosexuals (generally called "gay" these days) are no more or less depraved than heterosexuals in most cases, and if they are it is because of people like you who consider their very existence "disgusting." on the other hand the church, bastion of homosexual pedophiles, is a blame-free zone, right?

you consider yourself more "decent" than the average bear, do you? the arbiter of what is american and what is not despite the evidence that millions of americans disagree with you on most counts.