Re: Poetry reading cancelled to appease religious fundamentalists
I would rather think that that goes without saying, Eric.
However, it's not a good policy to cave in to fundamentalists and allow them, in effect, to censor literature (or anything else, for that matter). Once they start – and particularly if they have some success – they won't stop, and they'll want more and more and more.
And it's possibly also worth making the rather obvious comment that the Nazis started by banning books and art that they regarded as 'entartete' (degenerate).
They didn't murder the artists until a few years further down the line.
Last edited by Sybarite; 14-Nov-2008 at 15:57.
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