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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]so if school districts want to ban Playboy Magazine from schools, is that censorship?[/quote]

Yes. It may be censorship that the majority agrees to, but it's still censorship.[/quote]

No, it isn't. Employees generally have to do what employers tell them to do at work or be fired. (There are plenty of exceptions to this.)[/quote]
Still a type of "censorship" but it's accepted that Playboy doesn't belong in school, so no one complains.  The Playboy readers are 'harmed" but we've decided that they don't count.

I'm putting the words in quotes because it's not about the definition of the words.  It's about that the type of action that is really the same, but society has decided to come down on one side to benefit children. Even if they had a logically airtight First Amendment case, Playboy would lose.[/quote]

So nudity is bad, but racist imagery isn't? So we shouldn't cancel racist imagery?[/quote]
Depends on context.  Nudity doesn't belong in schools or in public.  It's okay in sex shops and strip joints.  But there is no logic to that.  That's just what we do.  Lots of past cultures allowed nudity in public.  The early Christians didn't and that's why we don't.  [/quote]

Wait, who are YOU to say nudity isn't acceptable. You are cancelling my right to nudity.

Hypocrite.[/quote]
Yes I cancelled your right to nudity, long ago, and proud of it, because I do think it's the right thing to do.  Hypocrite?  You bet.  And so are you, for the same reason.  What did you already cancel on me?

Any idea how many people died to preserve their right to nudity, worship pagan gods, and read anti-Christian literature?  And how many other people died to give you the right to read that literature back?  Why do people have to die over these things?  That's how big cultural changes work sometimes.

Pay attention to changes that come out of nowhere.  They mean more than you might think, especially when you see outrage vuilding on both sides.

That's the best I can do for now.  Soober or later you'll see it for yourself.[/quote]

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