civilization it’s a balancing act
between acquiring knowledge and wiping
it from our collective history welcome
to watchmojo.com facts in today’s
installment we’re counting down the top
5 facts about banned literature before
we begin we publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content every year people across America
fight back against censorship by
partaking in banned books week which
runs during the last week of each
September but you don’t need to wait
until then to familiarize yourself with
humanity’s love-hate relationship with
written word come along as we skim
through the many chapters and plot
points that make up the story of banned
literature
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media number 5 a history of censorship
by fire in the modern Western world when
a book is banned it often means that the
publication in question simply can’t be
taught in school or made available in
library but throughout history
prohibited texts have been subjected to
much stricter censorship across various
cultures book-burning has been the go-to
method for protecting the public from
so-called dangerous knowledge in 213 BC
the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty
allegedly had history books poetry and
philosophy burned in an effort to
consolidate power it’s also suspected
that the destruction by fire of the
Library of Alexandria may have been
intentional
fast-forward through countless historic
book burnings and we get to Nazi Germany
where tens of thousands of books were
burned in the name of preserving the
German identity often by students number
four a book is challenged then banned so
what’s the process of banning a book
nowadays if it’s not trial by fire
before a book can be officially banned
in any institution it needs to be
challenged and a case made for it to be
censored so who cares enough to go
through such trouble rather than just
you know not reading the book according
to the American Library Association
parents there were somebody please pick
up the children as of 2015 40% of all
challenges come from parents on average
a few hundred challenges are recorded
each year by the ala 4 how does a book
go from challenged to banned a governing
body or committee of the school or
library in question will meet and review
the challenge
is money and selflessness has no place
in our school typically unless material
is found to be glaringly offensive to
the general public most institutions
will not ban a book unless it receives
numerous challenges
number three many of the most famous
books have been banned in various places
the more famous critically acclaimed or
academically analyzed a book or series
is the more likely is to have been
challenged the books have nothing to say
essentially the more culturally relevant
a book is the more some folks want to
see it kept out of the impressionable
hands the likes of catch-22 the Pixar
being a wallflower The Fault in Our
Stars The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The
Grapes of Wrath slaughterhouse-five
Naked Lunch Fahrenheit 451 and Frank the
Diary of a young girl and the Harry
Potter series have all been banned by
various school board schools or
libraries in America over the years why
the justifications are varied immoral
against family values racist
homosexuality violent content sexual
content age inappropriate political
views the consumption of substances and
many many more
very very bad number two taboo books
have gotten people into legal trouble
why the hell with this book back while
many fans of free speech and creative
expression openly scoff at challenging
and banning of books historically
ignoring such bans has landed people in
serious hot water when Allen Ginsberg’s
controversial poem howl was published in
1956 various people were arrested and
accused of obscenity including
booksellers shigeyoshi Murrow and
Lawrence Ferlinghetti the books
publisher in the end both were declared
innocent and I find the book is not
obscene
defendant is found not guilty what’s
more teachers who ignore school bans on
certain books have been fired throughout
the 1960’s multiple American teachers
were dismissed for teaching Catcher in
the Rye 1984 and one Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest and while some teachers
got their jobs back others weren’t so
lucky
you will read it at home and you will
all be mature about its adult themes and
language number one the justifications
aren’t always understandable dban Henry
Miller you bad eh Laura Giovanni’s Room
because it’s too homosexual pop right
now sure there are arguments for banning
books admittedly you wouldn’t want
someone teaching graphic sexually
explicit material to elementary school
kids the issue with banning books
however is that it sets a dangerous
precedent where do you draw the line
Scott DeMarco a Mansfield University
Librarian wanted to highlight just that
issue when he intentionally banned an
undeserving book in order to draw
attention to the problem inherent with
censorship plenty of books have been
banned or challenged for ridiculous
reasons before but sadly not all prove a
point
trying to destroy every trip Harriet the
Spy for encouraging sneaky behavior
Little Red Riding Hood for showing a
child in possession of wine and brown
bear brown bear what do you see because
the author had the same name as a
Marxist theorist so there’s that
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between acquiring knowledge and wiping
it from our collective history welcome
to watchmojo.com facts in today’s
installment we’re counting down the top
5 facts about banned literature before
we begin we publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content every year people across America
fight back against censorship by
partaking in banned books week which
runs during the last week of each
September but you don’t need to wait
until then to familiarize yourself with
humanity’s love-hate relationship with
written word come along as we skim
through the many chapters and plot
points that make up the story of banned
literature
I love print media you love print media
I like print media you will like print
media number 5 a history of censorship
by fire in the modern Western world when
a book is banned it often means that the
publication in question simply can’t be
taught in school or made available in
library but throughout history
prohibited texts have been subjected to
much stricter censorship across various
cultures book-burning has been the go-to
method for protecting the public from
so-called dangerous knowledge in 213 BC
the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty
allegedly had history books poetry and
philosophy burned in an effort to
consolidate power it’s also suspected
that the destruction by fire of the
Library of Alexandria may have been
intentional
fast-forward through countless historic
book burnings and we get to Nazi Germany
where tens of thousands of books were
burned in the name of preserving the
German identity often by students number
four a book is challenged then banned so
what’s the process of banning a book
nowadays if it’s not trial by fire
before a book can be officially banned
in any institution it needs to be
challenged and a case made for it to be
censored so who cares enough to go
through such trouble rather than just
you know not reading the book according
to the American Library Association
parents there were somebody please pick
up the children as of 2015 40% of all
challenges come from parents on average
a few hundred challenges are recorded
each year by the ala 4 how does a book
go from challenged to banned a governing
body or committee of the school or
library in question will meet and review
the challenge
is money and selflessness has no place
in our school typically unless material
is found to be glaringly offensive to
the general public most institutions
will not ban a book unless it receives
numerous challenges
number three many of the most famous
books have been banned in various places
the more famous critically acclaimed or
academically analyzed a book or series
is the more likely is to have been
challenged the books have nothing to say
essentially the more culturally relevant
a book is the more some folks want to
see it kept out of the impressionable
hands the likes of catch-22 the Pixar
being a wallflower The Fault in Our
Stars The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The
Grapes of Wrath slaughterhouse-five
Naked Lunch Fahrenheit 451 and Frank the
Diary of a young girl and the Harry
Potter series have all been banned by
various school board schools or
libraries in America over the years why
the justifications are varied immoral
against family values racist
homosexuality violent content sexual
content age inappropriate political
views the consumption of substances and
many many more
very very bad number two taboo books
have gotten people into legal trouble
why the hell with this book back while
many fans of free speech and creative
expression openly scoff at challenging
and banning of books historically
ignoring such bans has landed people in
serious hot water when Allen Ginsberg’s
controversial poem howl was published in
1956 various people were arrested and
accused of obscenity including
booksellers shigeyoshi Murrow and
Lawrence Ferlinghetti the books
publisher in the end both were declared
innocent and I find the book is not
obscene
defendant is found not guilty what’s
more teachers who ignore school bans on
certain books have been fired throughout
the 1960’s multiple American teachers
were dismissed for teaching Catcher in
the Rye 1984 and one Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest and while some teachers
got their jobs back others weren’t so
lucky
you will read it at home and you will
all be mature about its adult themes and
language number one the justifications
aren’t always understandable dban Henry
Miller you bad eh Laura Giovanni’s Room
because it’s too homosexual pop right
now sure there are arguments for banning
books admittedly you wouldn’t want
someone teaching graphic sexually
explicit material to elementary school
kids the issue with banning books
however is that it sets a dangerous
precedent where do you draw the line
Scott DeMarco a Mansfield University
Librarian wanted to highlight just that
issue when he intentionally banned an
undeserving book in order to draw
attention to the problem inherent with
censorship plenty of books have been
banned or challenged for ridiculous
reasons before but sadly not all prove a
point
trying to destroy every trip Harriet the
Spy for encouraging sneaky behavior
Little Red Riding Hood for showing a
child in possession of wine and brown
bear brown bear what do you see because
the author had the same name as a
Marxist theorist so there’s that
[Music]
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
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