Posts Tagged ‘Dictionary’
Protecting Our Children from Smutty Dictionaries
Long time readers of this blog will know that I am not a big fan of books. The printed page is an outdated communication tool that belongs back in 17th Century Germany with the inventor of the printing press Steven Gutenberg. I am opposed to my tax dollars being wasted on libraries to store these useless relics of an earlier age. However, the one book that I find especially dangerous is the dictionary. This book contains the words that spell out all the smutty, vulgar, and deviant writings that we need to protect our children from. It only requires a relatively clever child to put the dictionary words in the right order to tell a story that would make a sailor blush. Furthermore, our founding fathers were schooled on creative spelling–the authoritarian rule of the spelling conventionalists is a slap in the face to American values.
Fortunately, some good folks in Riverside, California complained to the Menifee Union School District and got the dictionary pulled from the schools. Isn’t it a parent’s right to teach their children new words? This is how government indoctrination starts. “It’s just not age-appropriate,” said school spokeswoman Betti Cadmus, “It’s hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we’ll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature.”
One board member told the Press-Enterprise that there are probably more objectionable terms in the dictionary. You can count on it. Unfortunately, a group of liberal thug parents demanded that the dictionaries be returned to the school classrooms and the school board caved. However, I am hoping that this case will illustrate the dangers of a dictionary for young kids. They can not only find smut, but learn the correct way to pronounce it and its derivation. This is not what our tax dollars should be going for.
