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g0ldie
02/16/22 9:51:15 PM
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https://mobile.twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1493933681731194880

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Cheater87
02/16/22 9:56:03 PM
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This must hurt him a lot. :(

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brestugo
02/16/22 9:58:43 PM
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Read the books they don't want you to.

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Kegran
02/16/22 10:01:16 PM
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He should read what the word "banned" means before spreading lies.
https://www.amazon.com/Rosa-Nikki-Giovanni/dp/0312376022
Reading Rainbow used to be one of my favorite shows as a kid. Such a shame he'd do this.

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IndorilGawain
02/16/22 10:02:52 PM
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Kegran posted...
He should read what the word "banned" means before spreading lies.
https://www.amazon.com/Rosa-Nikki-Giovanni/dp/0312376022
Reading Rainbow used to be one of my favorite shows as a kid. Such a shame he'd do this.
Shut the fuck up

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TheMikh
02/16/22 10:02:53 PM
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brestugo posted...
Read the books they don't want you to.
sage advice

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g0ldie
02/16/22 10:03:40 PM
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they're being banned in a certain context, no?

schools removing them from curriculums and their libraries?

edit: at post 4

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UnholyMudcrab
02/16/22 10:03:40 PM
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Kegran posted...
He should read what the word "banned" means before spreading lies.
https://www.amazon.com/Rosa-Nikki-Giovanni/dp/0312376022
Reading Rainbow used to be one of my favorite shows as a kid. Such a shame he'd do this.
Whose stolen alt is this

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0x4B616E6A6F
02/16/22 10:04:43 PM
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Kegran posted...
He should read what the word "banned" means before spreading lies.
https://www.amazon.com/Rosa-Nikki-Giovanni/dp/0312376022
Reading Rainbow used to be one of my favorite shows as a kid. Such a shame he'd do this.

Bruh there's not a single book in this country that is "banned" in the way you think "banned" means
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Questionmarktarius
02/16/22 10:05:06 PM
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Kegran posted...
Such a shame he'd do this.
I dunno. A Levar Burton Fahrenheit 451 audiobook could be some good.
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Kegran
02/16/22 10:05:35 PM
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0x4B616E6A6F posted...
Bruh there's not a single book in this country that is "banned" in the way you think "banned" means
Thus using the term "banned" is misleading, as intended.
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1337toothbrush
02/16/22 10:05:58 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/0/AAONleAAC720.png
Tag makes sense.

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0x4B616E6A6F
02/16/22 10:07:18 PM
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Kegran posted...
Thus using the term "banned" is misleading, as intended.

It is only misleading to people who literally can't use common sense to know basic context.
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Questionmarktarius
02/16/22 10:08:32 PM
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0x4B616E6A6F posted...
Bruh there's not a single book in this country that is "banned" in the way you think "banned" means
I've got one.
Or rather, a recalled edition.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/08/mcgraw-hill-education-withdraws-textbook-maps-viewed-anti-israel

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Hornswoggled
02/16/22 10:09:19 PM
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I'm gonna read this novel called The Turner Diaries.

It's banned so it's gotta be good!
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0x4B616E6A6F
02/16/22 10:09:32 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
I've got one.
Or rather, a recalled edition.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/08/mcgraw-hill-education-withdraws-textbook-maps-viewed-anti-israel

Still legal to sell and distribute
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CanuckCowboy
02/16/22 10:12:06 PM
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Kegran posted...
Thus using the term "banned" is misleading, as intended.

That guy told you to shut the fuck up.

Itd be a lot cooler if you did.

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Kegran
02/16/22 10:16:18 PM
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0x4B616E6A6F posted...
It is only misleading to people who literally can't use common sense to know basic context.
That would include most of Twitter.
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Cheater87
02/16/22 10:18:29 PM
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Never thought I'd hear Levar say the word shit. XD

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Jagr_68
02/16/22 10:18:50 PM
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We could've had this man host Jeopardy :(

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Cheater87
02/16/22 10:19:00 PM
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Hornswoggled posted...
I'm gonna read this novel called The Turner Diaries.

It's banned so it's gotta be good!

I bet that book is GOP approved.

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0x4B616E6A6F
02/16/22 10:19:12 PM
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Kegran posted...
That would include most of Twitter.

Why did you buy an account that already was used to shitpost?
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Kim_Seong-a
02/16/22 10:19:35 PM
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Guys it's misleading to say that a person is "banned" because it just means their GameFAQs account, not stateless exile. Pls lrn2webster

But on topic, I always wonder if skits like these ever reach the audience that needs to hear it most. I remember a news story about older (I think middle or high school) kids starting banned book clubs, which gives me some hope. There's always been hysterical "think of the children!" attempts at banning media, but it's become more insidious in recent years.

Or maybe it was always this insidious and I was just too young at the time to understand why people wanted them banned lol

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Questionmarktarius
02/16/22 10:21:23 PM
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Kim_Seong-a posted...
Or maybe it was always this insidious and I was just too young at the time to understand why people wanted them banned lol
Meanwhile, in the 60s...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/2/AAEhCpAAC73U.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus
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Kegran
02/16/22 10:21:44 PM
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0x4B616E6A6F posted...
Why did you buy an account that already was used to s***post?
Why do people here think that someone would buy a gamefaqs account.
These message boards are a literal backwater of the Internet.
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AldousIsDead
02/16/22 10:21:46 PM
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Kim_Seong-a posted...
Or maybe it was always this insidious and I was just too young at the time to understand why people wanted them banned lol
It was always insidious.

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UnholyMudcrab
02/16/22 10:27:27 PM
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Jagr_68 posted...
We could've had this man host Jeopardy :(
Tbh, he wasn't all that great at it

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Kim_Seong-a
02/16/22 10:30:14 PM
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AldousIsDead posted...
It was always insidious.

Most likely scenario. Just that growing up, most of the "book bannings" I had heard about seemed like generic pearl-clutching about violence and sex. Or over dumb shit like satanic panic. Gosh, I'm gonna have to do a deep-dive on the history of banned books. >_>

Questionmarktarius posted...
Meanwhile, in the 60s...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/2/AAEhCpAAC73U.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus

Beatles media drama is always funny to me <_<

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGtVJbi5Rn8


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