The Randomness That Is Me

some of the comments on my censorship post are like “um I think books should be rated like movies because some books feature stuff like gang rape that teens shouldn’t be allowed read”

There’s someone on another of these posts who was arguing with me about how reading Kite Runner in highschool “traumatized [her] and [her] brother for life” and i was like. Shocked. Because Kite Runner’s depictions of class and ethnic discrimination and how that is a contributing force to the child sexual assaults*, not to mention the depictions of war, are all echos of reality, they are happening to people in the age group of that high school class. Bad things happen to young people everywhere everyday, and to act like stories that grapple with those topics are some uniquely adult form of evil is just proving that the ignorance those assigned books were supposed to cure people of is very much persistent into adulthood.

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