"Censors from the political left believe in an idealized vision of the future, a utopia in which egalitarianism prevails in all social relations. In this vision, there is no dominant group, no dominant father, no dominant race, and no dominant gender."


Though this sounds great, it sounds far to similar to communism, something that we know will not work.

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and Go Ask Alice by anonymous."

It is funny that they should mention these books as "banned" or "Censored" in the past because they are they are the books i've read in high school that have had a significant impact on me. I have not read Black Like Me, but my favorite book is Adventures of Huck Finn.

Censorship should be stopped, to a degree. I feel that censors stop people from saying hateful things that only cause pain, like racist or sexist comments, but if these things are in text to bring about change, or if someone ways a bad word, or if you call out a brutal truth, these things should not be censored. To call someone a racial slur, that censorship should stand, but to make a point by explaining a situation, using vulgarities, should be allowed because it is expanding and opening minds, rather than closing them to hateful comments.