Do you agree with President Eisenhower's statement?

[Anonymous]

Yes

No

[najekim]

Definitely agree. I heard many years ago someone saying " Book burners and book banners are doing so because they have something to hide or something they're deeply ashamed for."

[AngryCarl2]

Yes, and Eisenhower fought the Nazis in WW2 so he was familiar with book burners.

[AngryCarl2]

Thanks for MHO!

[Leapfrog00]

I am someone who is a reader and I can honestly say reading as many books as possible gives you better knowledge of the world around you. Fiction, nonfiction, it doesn't matter. The mind needs information to survive. That's why people who don't read or don't want to learn end up struggling in life. People still struggle either way, but at least the ones who are willing to learn have a better chance of survival because thwy may know what to do is a situation that arises.

One day you could learn something completely useless in a book but there may come that one day where it will save your life! It's up to us how we interrupt what books say!

[monorprise]

You need to have a mind to deal with information appropriately, children physically don't have that. This is why they require parents, who MUST control what their children are exposed to and what they are allowed to do.

After the child finally matures he or she can read and do whatever they want but before it will destroying them. This is not speculation this is a known fact, if you doubt it go read history on how easy it is to screw up a child with indoctrination.

Do not however insist upon experimenting on other people's children with your crazy ideas. Far too many children have already been destroyed by LGBT+ ideas.

[purplepoppy]

No I don't. Just because something is in a book does not mean it is evidence. The problem we face now is it's very easy to flood books shops and libraries with books full of nonsense. People then believe it must be true because there's loads of books.

1 1 will always =2. No matter how many books to the contrary. The problem with letting people make up their own minds is people are idiots. We shouldn't let people change historical or scienctific facts then claim it's free speech it's not, facts are facts.

I've nothing against people writing a sound argument against conventional wisdom but it should be backed by hard evidence. I see nothing wrong with clearing libraries of garbage masquerading as academia.

[Asker]

Who decides what is "garbage masquerading as academia"?

[monorprise]

@purplepoppy
An adult brain has a fair chance of deciding the difference between fact or fiction. It is the child brain which by design can't do this very well. This is why the rules are and have always been different for children. We do not let them learn or do whatever comes across the mind and we try to control it.

We have thousands of years of solid evidence including what is happening to children RIGHT NOW by parents that have allowed certain ideas to be embraced of what can happen to our kids if we do.

Put simply to aid in the learning process a child's mind is an empty slate which can far more easily be corrupted with harmful ideas, they are unable to filter out.

[monorprise]

I am very much against banning any kind of information. But i am just as much against paying to make it available to children not yet ready to handle it properly.

This is called being a parent, your job is to protect your children from their own poor judgement and in-ablilty to process information until such time that they can.

To that end we MUST control what our children have access to before 18 or they will harm themselfs. This is not speculation this is a simple fact. If you doubt it go read history, but don't experiment on other people's children.

[ohsheeT]

Library books are just like the internet it's somebody's opinion it's not fact in a lot of cases in a lot of cases it is is there knowledge to be gained yes of course it's either going to be positive or negative but just because of book says something doesn't make it right I used to work for a guy it was so book smart he was dumb he would get out on one of these jobs and he wouldn't even know what he was doing but he could tell you what the book said but if the book was wrong he was lost and in most cases he was lost because he never had hands on experience now there's a lot of good knowledge in books you have to choose and pick what you want to read you have to have some understanding of what you are reading or the knowledge that you want to gain but I do not agree with him at all this is a new world there's too much false bullshit out there somebody trying to manipulate somebody else into believing we have enough of that going on in the world alone besides having it in books

[monorprise]

@ohsheeT
Only to the extent we are not paying for those library books, and can control which of them our impressionable children have access to before their minds have matured enough to deal with such information.

The problem is children are not adults, their brains are quite deliberately designed to be less able to filter good formation from bad information. If they do not have someone to control what ideas and actions they are exposed to it is very likely bad things will happen to them.

[ohsheeT]

Yes thank you I really need to start using punctuation that way you can understand what I was trying to say

[DaisyM23]

well i mean technically if you do hide/get rid of evidence it'd be hard for anyone to know about certain events, we've had a very LONG human history and we've probably only touched the surface and i'm 100% sure there are things happening behind the scenes that we don't know about because of evidence being hidden

[Dargil]

Yes, I do. As a Libertarian (he was) he preferred you are exposed to every viewpoint including Mein Kampf, the Communist Manifesto and even this...

decide for yourself. That does not include grooming children who do not have developed minds.

And most people have no clue what he witnessed in WW2.

[LiamJHayden]

Read every book? Not possible. But be open to arguments and alter one's ideas when convincing evidence is presented, yes.

[imfreeze95]

I serve on a library board and served on a committee regarding books in schools I think books should be protected

[msc545]

Ther last honest, decent President we had with the exception of Carter.

[Whatthefluff]

100%.