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rogueslayer452++ Well done with the movie quote meme, I named all the correctly guessed movies along with who guessed them. And here are the reveals of the last remaining ones that didn't get guessed: 01. Saw, said by John Kramer/Jigsaw, 03. Ginger Snaps, said by Ginger Fitzgerald, 10. A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, said by Freddy Krueger, 11. Noriko's Dinner Table, said by Broken Dam, and 12. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, said by Thorin Oakenshield.
Either way, this meme was fun to participate in, on both sides. It made me miss the days when similar fannish memes were posted on the regular.
++ Hearing that a Nashville school has banned and removed the Harry Potter books from the library due to the claim that the spells and curses in them are real and can actually "conjure evil spirits" is terrifyingly hilarious. What is this, 1999? Bringing me wayyy back during the early days when religious/conservative groups would literally hold book burnings when the HP books were becoming popular, using these claims precisely. Forbidding and banning children from reading them in fear that they would be converted to witchcraft or commune with the devil. I have no doubt that people who hold these views have never stopped believing them and that these kinds of "Satanic Panics" will always happen regardless, but jfc, the fact that it's 2019 and people are still trying this? Especially with Harry Potter being one of the biggest pop culture phenomenons for many, many years now? It's just so bizarre. Yes, I know that it's said that it's a Catholic school and all, but still, it's making headlines so seriously, what the hell. But as ridiculous as it is and we all want to mock, it's still very sad seeing these kinds of controlling measures to censor things by those who cannot differentiate between fantasy and reality. It's a dangerous slippery slope, we've seen this time and again with the books that are on the challenged list, educational books that have been removed from libraries because some "concerned parent" wants to control what everyone else reads, or anything else in the media for that matter, instead of minding their own damn business.
Either way, this meme was fun to participate in, on both sides. It made me miss the days when similar fannish memes were posted on the regular.
++ Hearing that a Nashville school has banned and removed the Harry Potter books from the library due to the claim that the spells and curses in them are real and can actually "conjure evil spirits" is terrifyingly hilarious. What is this, 1999? Bringing me wayyy back during the early days when religious/conservative groups would literally hold book burnings when the HP books were becoming popular, using these claims precisely. Forbidding and banning children from reading them in fear that they would be converted to witchcraft or commune with the devil. I have no doubt that people who hold these views have never stopped believing them and that these kinds of "Satanic Panics" will always happen regardless, but jfc, the fact that it's 2019 and people are still trying this? Especially with Harry Potter being one of the biggest pop culture phenomenons for many, many years now? It's just so bizarre. Yes, I know that it's said that it's a Catholic school and all, but still, it's making headlines so seriously, what the hell. But as ridiculous as it is and we all want to mock, it's still very sad seeing these kinds of controlling measures to censor things by those who cannot differentiate between fantasy and reality. It's a dangerous slippery slope, we've seen this time and again with the books that are on the challenged list, educational books that have been removed from libraries because some "concerned parent" wants to control what everyone else reads, or anything else in the media for that matter, instead of minding their own damn business.
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Date: 2019-09-03 01:41 pm (UTC)The funny thing is, I went to a Christian (mainly Catholic) school and Harry Potter is the only book I ever checked out of the school library. They had an English copy and the one at home was German. I really wanted to try reading it in English.
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Date: 2019-09-03 06:44 pm (UTC)Also, I'm sure this happens everywhere else in the world, but I also feel like this is very much an American thing. Banning books and other examples of censorship is quite common here in the US, especially for ridiculous reasons. It's why there's a long list of "most challenged books" where the books listed are those that were banned/removed from schools and libraries for whatever claim at the time was by "concerned parents/citizens".
It's also why I'm a huge advocate for encouraging people to read off of that list, because seriously fuck censorship.
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Date: 2019-09-04 12:56 pm (UTC)Totally! For a country that values its freedom so much, they are very quick to censor media, especially for younger people. Alabama(?) not airing the Arthur episode with the teacher marrying another man is ridiculous. It always comes disguised at protecting children...
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Date: 2019-09-04 05:09 pm (UTC)But yeah the whole "think of the children" crusade is obviously bullshit because they don't care about that, they just care about controlling other people and winning that game, no matter what.