Censoring, Part II

OBVIOUSLY, you simply cannot say that all censorship is bad, all of the time. There are simply certain things that you don't want certain people to see and experience at certain times. The most obvious red flags are of course sex and violence. Strange that we keep mentioning these two drastically different activities in the same sentence; one is good, the other, bad. However, you really don't want your teenager, or for that matter your child of any age, sitting infront of his or her computer all day long watching pornography. To prevent that from happening, some form of censorship may be necessary, such as: no porn in this house. Also, most folks might agree that the less censorship, the better. In other words, use censorship only when necessary, only when it must be used for a particular reason, a good reason. Of course, one man's good reason is another man's nonsense. The book censorship and book burnings during Hitler's rule are generally regarded as having been among Hitler's many and worst atrocities and crimes against humanity; at the time, however, there were plenty of perfectly intelligent people, erstwhile intelligent people, people other than Hitler, who thought the book burnings were of the utmost utility and necessity. For that matter, there were plenty of Americans, conservatives, who approved of and supported Hitler until well into World War Two, just as today there are many American conservatives who seem to approve of Vladimir Putin. Obviously, nobody in his or her right mind wants pornography to be allowed in public schools. Defining pornography is of course the problem; like the supreme court justice famously said: "I may not be able to define it, but I know it when I see it." Bertolt Brecht noticed a pattern to Hitler's book burnings: all books being burned were good, well written books. Hitler did not burn poorly written, vacuous, trashy books, Brecht noticed as he looked at the list. Only the good got burned. Insulted, Brecht wrote a great poem titled "The Burning of the Books" in which he complains that Hitler refuses to burn any Betolt Brecht books, but should, because he, Brecht, is a good writer. One thing we should all agee on: consorship should only be implemented by good people with good intentions to oppose evil; it should never be implemented by people who support a bad cause and want to oppose a good one, which is exactly wat is happening with all these "don't say gay" laws sweeping the country. Angered by Trump's loss, and desperate to reverse the inevitable and irreversable progressive tendencies in American culture, such as increasing acceptance of gay and transgender people, Republican controlled states are passing censorship laws which they think will defend traditional American culture and keep it from changing, traditions like exclusion of gay and transgender people. So they censor all books which promote, defend, or even mention gay and transgender people. The material they are trying to censor is good material, good books for children to learn from, promoting good positive values, including complete social and personal acceptance of gay and transgender people. The purpose of their attempts at censorship is to destory healthy, positive culture, acceptance of gay people, and replace it with negative, evil, outdated cultural notions and traditions, such as exclusion and persecution of gay people. Therefore, indisputably, undeniably, inarguably, the current Christian-conservative-Republican-Trumpist agenda involving censorship of literature and history within American's public schools, is pernicious, wholly undesirable, a great evil, which must be opposed and stopped.