Remind me to never move to Georgia

This was a small story in the news today, but in its shortness, several things struck me as just wrong. Georgia mom seeks Harry Potter ban.

I think I would be pretty flattered if I ever wrote a book that people wanted to ban. I’d be in great company. But this woman needs to stop reading between the lines. Or maybe she needs to start reading the lines. Has she read Harry Potter? It’s been proven that most people who try to ban books have never read the book they want banned. Maybe that explains part of the problems with our nation – the Bible is on many banned book lists. Just think of how many people haven’t read it in order to put it there.

And while banning Harry Potter was the main part of the story, it was a casual mention at the end of the article of something else the county did recently to stunt literacy that really bothers me. People actually objected to buying books in Spanish? Because illegal immigrants might read them? Might be entertained? Might learn something? By all means let’s keep them ignorant so we can control them better. Didn’t Georgia try that with slaves? And of course legal immigrants and natural born/naturalized citizens would never want to read a book in another language other than English?

At least there were a few people who complained and got the board to reverse their decision. I would’ve done the same, although I probably would’ve used terms other than Anti-Hispanic. Ignorant, racist, blind, bigots, and cultural retards, all come to mind.