Congressman Steve Scalise (R) shot

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Re: Congressman Steve Scalise (R) shot

Post by KerningChameleon » Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:51 am

Also, Catcher in the Rye inspired a dude to shoot Ronald Reagan to impress Jane Fonda, so putting it on the meaningless Banned Book List was obviously the correct choice.

I now submit the way to combat modern day assassinations is to ban Jane Fonda.
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Re: Congressman Steve Scalise (R) shot

Post by Speaker to Animals » Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:53 am

We should probably put Ethan Frome and My Ántonia on the banned list. Those books almost caused me to assassinate somebody when they made me read them over my summer vacation.

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Re: Congressman Steve Scalise (R) shot

Post by KerningChameleon » Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:55 am

Speaker to Animals wrote:We should probably put Ethan Frome and My Ántonia on the banned list. Those books almost caused me to assassinate somebody when they made me read them over my summer vacation.
Stick Emma on there too, that book made me want to commit suicide from sheer boredom.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Catch-22 were fucking baller, though.
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Re: Congressman Steve Scalise (R) shot

Post by Speaker to Animals » Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:56 am

Alas Babylon was a game-changer. I am not sure why we went from stuff like Alas Babylon one summer to Ethan Frome in the next. Probably some feminist took over the reading assignments.

Really, I blame feminism for the guy who tried to murder those republicans. He probably identified as a male feminist too.

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Re: Congressman Steve Scalise (R) shot

Post by Ex-California » Mon Jun 19, 2017 6:10 am

Speaker to Animals wrote:Alas Babylon was a game-changer. I am not sure why we went from stuff like Alas Babylon one summer to Ethan Frome in the next. Probably some feminist took over the reading assignments.

Really, I blame feminism for the guy who tried to murder those republicans. He probably identified as a male feminist too.
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Re: Congressman Steve Scalise (R) shot

Post by Fife » Mon Jun 19, 2017 6:21 am

Speaker to Animals wrote:We should probably put Ethan Frome and My Ántonia on the banned list. Those books almost caused me to assassinate somebody when they made me read them over my summer vacation.
Haha, picked up a copy of Ethan Frome yesterday for $5 at BAM with my daughter as part of filling out her summer list. She asked me how bad it was going to be. I told her to just get through it as best she could and she could wash it down the same evening with Animal Farm or some Heinlein. :goteam:

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Re: Congressman Steve Scalise (R) shot

Post by Speaker to Animals » Mon Jun 19, 2017 6:26 am

Fife wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:We should probably put Ethan Frome and My Ántonia on the banned list. Those books almost caused me to assassinate somebody when they made me read them over my summer vacation.
Haha, picked up a copy of Ethan Frome yesterday for $5 at BAM with my daughter as part of filling out her summer list. She asked me how bad it was going to be. I told her to just get through it as best she could and she could wash it down the same evening with Animal Farm or some Heinlein. :goteam:

In some ways, it's a valuable lesson to young men about female nature. The feminist teachers will be oblivious to that aspect of the novel, so a parent would need to explain it. In hindsight, it's kind of funny that feminists would choose this novel as reading material. Some MGTOW guy should do a positive review on it.

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Re: Congressman Steve Scalise (R) shot

Post by The Conservative » Mon Jun 19, 2017 6:44 am

KerningChameleon wrote:Also, Catcher in the Rye inspired a dude to shoot Ronald Reagan to impress Jane Fonda, so putting it on the meaningless Banned Book List was obviously the correct choice.

I now submit the way to combat modern day assassinations is to ban Jane Fonda.
If Catcher and the Rye (One of the worst books in American Literature in my opinion) inspired someone to shoot Ronald Reagan, there was more wrong with the person than just a loose screw. The guy needed a frontal lobotomy...
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Re: Congressman Steve Scalise (R) shot

Post by heydaralon » Mon Jun 19, 2017 7:34 am

Idk what murder porn means. I'm not arguing the banning of any plays or books. The guy who shot Reagan was really into Jodi Foster in Taxi Driver, and I think the guy who killed Lennon was a big fan of The Catcher in the Rye. They were clearly beavershit crazy before they watched and read this stuff, and decided to act out their fucked up fantasies. The stuff obviously made an impact on them, though I would not argue that it caused their deplorable actions. As far as banning plays, books, movies, whatever, that is for pussies.


Edit: Someone already mentioned Catcher in the Rye sorry for the redundancy on my part.
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Re: Congressman Steve Scalise (R) shot

Post by SuburbanFarmer » Mon Jun 19, 2017 7:37 am

California wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:Alas Babylon was a game-changer. I am not sure why we went from stuff like Alas Babylon one summer to Ethan Frome in the next. Probably some feminist took over the reading assignments.

Really, I blame feminism for the guy who tried to murder those republicans. He probably identified as a male feminist too.
Feminism is the root cause for most of today's issues

Look at the pre-indoctrination Stanford is requiring for incoming freshmen

http://www.businessinsider.com/stanford ... aa-gyasi-1
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