Archive for January, 2010
Taking political correctness to a whole new level. Then taking it back again.
On January 26, I read an article in the Toronto Star about a California school board banning the dictionary. The ban came after a parent complained that her child found the term “oral sex” in said dictionary.
I’ll let Peter Scheer, executive director of the California First Amendment Coalition, take it from here:
“If a public school were to remove every book because it contains one word deemed objectionable to some parent, then there would be no books at all in our public libraries.
“I think common sense seems to be lacking in this school,” he said to The Press Enterprise.
The next day they decided to repeal the ban. Parents can choose to have their kids use a different dictionary. Because obviously that will fix everything.