LeVar Burton on book bans: Dystopia of 'Fahrenheit 451' is now reality
Literacy advocate and actor LeVar Burton joins MSNBC's Ali Velshi during Banned Book Week to discuss Burton's work advocating for people to read banned books which he says will teach us about others' lived experiences making us more empathetic people.
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National Treasure LeVar Burton. Thank you for this clip!
Amen.
God bless this national treasure.
He was awesome in "Roots". Did you like that one? If you did, you should take a glance at the interview where the author called it a "mythical" story.
@@Exxeron-ob3tvIt being a “mystical” story doesn’t mean he wasn’t awesome in the role. Do you have a point?!?
I demand Mein Kampf be read in kindergarten!
My mother engaged in book burning. My mother the TEACHER did that! She tried to burn my dad’s Science Fiction collection. Fortunately, he wouldn’t let her, so I was free to read books like 1984, and Animal Farm, and Fahrenheit 451. The irony of people banning books like Fahrenheit 451 is stark, and completely lost on those doing the banning. LeVar is absolutely right: it’s about fear. Thank you, LeVar, for everything you did for so many people in opening their eyes to reading.
One of my favourite books is Dune by Frank Herbert. My favourite line is “Fear is the mind killer.”
But of course, banning alternative public opinions on social media is AOK, amirite?
@@SuperOdyssSocial media platforms are privately owned. They are free to ban whatever they want. However, government-run public schools banning books is a violation of the first amendment.
Nope not just fear.....also CONTROL/POWER!!!
@@SuperOdysssince you’re apparently not familiar with the constitution so here ya go Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Try to comprehend please
I still think Levar would have made a great Jeopardy host.
He wasn't very good in that gig - it was disappointing.
I knew I wasn't the only one still thinking that.
"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings" - Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), one of the most significant German poets.
Name just ONE book that has been banned in the USA. Just one!
Which city government or school board had advocated for book burning?
As a trans person I am keenly aware of the patterns of history, and it's scary.
@@ZoeX87 why would being someone who identifies as trans give you some kind of specialized knowledge? I don't understand your point.
@@ZoeX87 So you have noticed the connection between the creation of cosmetic surgery for transsexuals and the Madison avenue push to convince more people to take that very expensive path? Funny how it wasn't a problem when there was nothing we could do about it, but as soon as plastic surgery progressed, suddenly people lose their minds. It is a 15% per annum growth market if they can continue to convince enough people. Hmmmmm.
I generally buy a book as soon as I learn that it has been banned. I also encourage my grandchildren to read age-appropriate books that have been banned. This country has gone crazy in many ways lately, but banning books is one of the things that makes me angriest about all of this. Just tell me that there is something inside of a book that you do not want me to know, then my nose will be in that book just as soon as humanly possible. I can’t believe that we are having this discussion this far into the 21st-century!
Interesting... so "age appropriate" is important to you? Maybe you are not a hypocrite, perhaps you simply haven't seen the videos of parents getting kicked out school board meetings for reading from books found in elementary school libraries because the subject matter was inappropriate for the adults in the room?
@@Exxeron-ob3tv I have seen way too many of those videos. Actually, I was talking about my own grandkids. My 7 year old grandson reads really well, but I would not stick a sexually explicit book in his hand and tell him to read it. I don’t see anything wrong with “age appropriate.” Many of the banned books are age appropriate for young children. Some are not, but are for older kids. I think the parents can monitor their own kids. School boards need not stick their noses too far in.
Ironically, that's also how most kids respond to "forbidden knowledge", too. "Not allowed to read that" = "I really want to see what the fuss is about!"
@@Exxeron-ob3tv You can find that "age inappropriate" stuff in the Bible, too. Context matters. Those readings in school-board meetings carefully avoid all the relevant context (generally because those "grown-ups" don't understand context themselves, anyways). But the kids are actually a lot smarter than the book-banners. The context is what makes it an interesting read. And if the kids don't understand those things yet, _then they won't be interested_ -- except insofar as the "forbidden knowledge" label makes them want to see what the fuss is about (and they'll decide it's actually kind of boring and move on to things that actually do interest them). Of course, these people don't remember what it's like being a child, any better than they understand context.
It seems the same people who claim to love the constitution don't have much regard for the 1st amendment.
I'm 42 and that voice still makes me feel like an excited kid. Thank you LeVar
LeVar has aged very well! Glad to see him fighting the good fight.
You should have seen him in Star Trek: Picard season 3, I seen how ugly he can get when he mentions "You stole the cloaking device from my Bird-of-Prey" and trust me as long time star trek fan, I have never seen LeVar/Geordi get that angry before, he looked like he was going to pop a blood vessel.
I pray he be greatly blessed along with Mr. Rogers, the Sesame Street staff, and many others who enchanted my childhood.
@@sethabel4315 Don't leave out Morgan Freeman and _The Electric Company!_
PBS needs to get back with LeVar Burton to put Reading Rainbow 🌈 back in production and put back on air the old shows . Support your local book stores also on-line support and buy banned books .
Its doubtful that any of those trying to ban various books have read any of the books they ban!
One of the "clever" things they are trying is to make the teachers and librarians ban their own books for fear someone might object. Self-censorship.
Very little doubt.
Many parents have been thrown out of school board meetings for reading excerpts from the books they do not want their young children exposed to. The reason stated is that such material was inappropriate for public reading IN FRONT OF ADULTS. Have you read any of them?
@@Exxeron-ob3tvso, if you’re the designated ‘censor’ for the school district, why not just use a magic marker to blacken out an offending word or sentence?
@@samw5767 Missed the point entirely, eh? On purpose?
They mention how LeVar Burton started in the show Reading Rainbow, but Mr. Burton currently has a podcast where, well, just reads short stories to you. It's called LeVar Burton Reads, if you're interested.
Thanks!
Thank you LeVar! Thank you for helping to enrich my daughter's life with Reading Rainbow and for continuing the good fight! I have already purchased a few banned books including The Hill We Climb. As a person in my 60's I am so shocked that books that were required/suggested reading for me in school are now being ban.
"The Hill We Climb" - a spoken word poem written by American poet Amanda Gorman. Originally published: March 30, 2021 To quote you - "As a person in my 60's I am so shocked that books that were required/suggested reading for me in school are now being ban." You are a straight up liar.
I read Fahrenheit 451 in junior high and it has stuck with me my whole life. I recently reread it -- my local library has 2 copies-- and I realized I hadn't forgotten any of it.
FYI, several school boards have already banned Fahrenheit 451. It was deemed inappropriate for young readers. Welcome to MAGA America.
It not about censorship
I read Fahrenheit 451 in early 60's, when I was 10. I,too ,haven't forgotten what it was about. People need to read it,along with George Orwell books!!
@@micheleconner5083it's not about censorship
This fascist lite doctrine is everything that Bradbury warned us of.
I adore LaVar Burton. He's a childhood hero of mine from Reading Rainbow, and then went on to Star Trek??? Even now, he rocks the grey like he invented it. Rock star.
It just occurred to me how horrifying the title, “Reading Rainbow” must be to Republicans!!!!! Two words, each of which terrifies them! Love you, LeVar Burton!❤ Keep up the battle!!!!! (We’ll do our part, too.)
Something occurred to you...? That would require thought so... seriously doubt that is possible. More like, you constructed something out of nothing more than the ugliest pieces of your inner soul and suckered yourself into believing in it. Best of luck with that, you're going to need it.
These people probably don’t allow their children to eat Lucky Charms. They are just so ridiculous.
They hate PBS....always have....
what about his threats to ' throw his hands ' against certain women if they were in the audience at the recent book awards. He said it...look at the video in his opening statement..." anyone from Moms for Liberty " " Good I won't have to throw any hands. " A flat out threat of physical violence. Hmmmm??????
The show existed for about 20 years when Republicans were either the ones in power or second in power. I don't recall any controversy or outrage back then.
It's great to see you LaVar Burton, you were championing childhood literacy when I was a child; and now you're aiding the adult understanding of the importance of diverse childhood literacy! I thought that yours was a good synopsis of the current situation, more power to you and your work Sir.💚
Farinheit 451 was the very 1st thing i thought of when the book banning started!!!
Tell us all what books have been banned that you can't get off Amazon?
Me to & Germany in the '30's.
@@mr.m4853 Banning books from being in a school is still banning books eve if you can get them on some website. Your cute semantics won't fool anyone...lol
I thought of the same thing, I saw the movie of it back in High School I think it was or was it Middle Schoo, well whenever it was and if it weren't for books, we wouldn't have comic books and stuff like that.
@@mr.m4853Banning books from school & public libraries hurt children & teens. Or do you think American teens have unlimited disposable income?
V: “You may develop empathy. … The people who want to prevent you from developing that empathy are people who do not want their world shaken. They don’t want people…with an understanding of all these other people because that affects their worldview. …It’s gonna rock your world to read a book…” LB: “This is all being motivated by a sense of fear.”
Living in one of the stops on the Underground Railroad, Harriett Beacher Stowe heard many first had accounts of fleeing slaves. Her recounting of these stories, formed into the novel UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, changed the world. Pearl Buck, who lived in China with her missionary family, was able to do much the same thing with THE GOOD EARTH and many other novels. From hearing other people's struggles, these women showed those struggles to the world. Now days people are able to write and publish their own stories.
And I’m pretty sure both of these titles have been banned somewhere. 🤨
@@debbietroyer9480 undoubtedly yes. Though I was assigned both of those books in High School in the late 1970’s. Powerful books.
That's why these books are being banned, because they are powerful and enlightening.
@@WriterRachel "If children can read these books, they might end up deciding I'm actually wrong about something... Burn them!"
I love Velshi's banned book club. Though i am sad that it exists
Sad that we need it. 😢
@@Laura-LaFauveIgnorant parents believe that sheltering their kids from the reality of the world will make them functioning adults. We’re doomed!
@@Laura-LaFauve What's even sadder is you ask some of these cranky libs about it and they can't give a single fact.
@@sethabel4315 such as?
Name just ONE book that has been banned in the USA. Just one!
There are food deserts & now there are book deserts. If we know any businessowners who may have the space, ppl could join forces and build bookshelves for them. This act of kindness works in the long-term as it gets current customers to visit more & recommend their friends/family Rule of room " take a book, leave a book"
According to the internet, Henry David Thoreau said "The only sin is ignorance ". Thank you, LeVar, for helping us to be less sinful.
"Nothing is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" Martin Luther King.
@@jaaksavat7916 "If you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything." - Malcolm X
Ignorance is weakness and weakness must be purged.
@@nalrashido ignorance isn't weakness but lack of knowledge and understanding.
After the Jan 6 putsch failed, the extremists moved into the school boards. School boards are the frontline in the battle against extremists.
Fahrenheit 451 is brilliant. I read it in my teens. I'm not a Bradbury fan but I love this book. It has stayed with me. I've asked many people, if they had to memorize a book to save it, which one would you become?
Fahrenheit 451 is not about censorship
Making all books a crime punishable by execution isn't censorship. Okay I'll bite, convince me the death penalty isn't censorship.@@RyanRoberson-gc1op
I'd be The Martian Chronicles. I am a lifelong Bradbury fan. One of the first pieces of SF and first story of his I ever read was a short story in a weekly reader in grade school.
Weekly reader, thanks for the lovely memory. I had forgotten about that. I also have happy memories of Boys Life. Nothing could be more thrilling than getting that magazine.@@anastasiabeaverhausen8220
@@RyanRoberson-gc1op Yeah it is. A totalitarian government is burning books like the Bible and Charles Dicken's David Copperfield. If that isn't censorship then you are a mongrel dog.
Fahrenheit 451 is a good movie but I didn't think it would come true in my lifetime. The kids hear the fire brigade truck coming & they start yelling excitedly "A fire, there's going to be a fire". A book burning fire.
Me to, I never thought it would come to this to.
Fahrenheit 451 is not about censorship
@@RyanRoberson-gc1op You again????
@@RyanRoberson-gc1op Yes it is. Censorship is only one part of the story & is always part of an authoritarian regime.
Which city government or school board had advocated for book burning?
I remember watching Roots, and crying because I didn't understand why human beings would harm each other as a child. And to demonstrate the ignorance of past generations, my mom was upset when I named my son Tobias, smh!! She said it's a black person's name🤯
Somehow I missed it growing up, so didn't see it until I got the DVD on Netflix back when mail order was their thing. I didn't know you that freed slaves in VA could be enslaved if they didn't leave the state like his descendant had to. I had to laugh at the end when they said they were moving to find a new home in Tennessee. Good luck with that!
I'm sure you are a brilliant mother.
@JudyFayLondon I would not say that I am a "brilliant" mom. I'm a socially conscious mom.
@@carripiller in England I believe "brilliant" is meant to be just a really, really good mom. And, socially conscious to boot!
Isn't it a biblical name?
My kids grew up watching Reading Rainbow, my 4th son donated to the first Fund Drive about four-ish years ago. My son loves his shirt, “But you don’t have to take my word for it”. Actually, that is on his shirt🤔.
It begins with a fear of ideas and ends with violence against those they believe to hold the ideas. We must not fear ideas or our neighbours.
They, people who want to ban books, want to back time to a time which never was and only is in wishful nostalgia.
@@bcase5328 To coin a phrase: "The world is not how it used to be... In fact, it never was."
Fear plays a part in this, as LeVar Burton says -- a fear that Chris Mooney touches on in his books The Republican Brain (2012) and The Republican War on Science (2005). But book-banning is also a handy wedge issue that is being exploited.
Yes, Chris Mooney's books on "conservative" thought and culture, and their conflict with/fear of observable, verifiable reality, are still highly relevant today (perhaps even more so).
Man, I'm 46, and I would still watch Reading Rainbow if it was on. I still remember the intro song, almost in its entirety.
LeVar Burton has done more for people reading than the entire government. People who were kids like me in the 80’s know him over who was running which culture slide. On a side note, I really have been waiting to see Kamala shine, she became VP during a very hectic time when the spotlights are all on the president and the neverwas. I’d like to see what else she does, because she’s an important voice as much as the men in power have tried to downplay her.
I love LaVars voice.
Since my child learnt to read at 4 because it was obligatory by 5. I started her own library and love of second hand book stores where we spent hours at 14 she still loves her school library where all the librarians know her and recommend books. If this was happening in my child's school I would not hesitate to be on the board and get every parent with me to fight this. I'm a Proud Woke Mother that would Never let this happen without a fight 💙💙
Thank you for this conversation. Unfortunately,ignorance is rampant here in the US. Knowledge is the key to evolving into more understanding and communication. Isolationist isn’t the answer. The fear of acknowledging others value is a sign of this inability to accept all individuals for their own value.
I love Ray Bradbury's short stories and books - Farenheit 451 was a classic. Why are they banning books? So kids grow up without knowledge? Knowledge is power.
That's exactly why they're doing it. No knowledge, no power.
Fahrenheit 451 is not about censorship
@@RyanRoberson-gc1op that's literally (pun intended) what it's about.
@@Samantha-lg1bwno its not. It's about the transfer from print to moronic video media. At least according to Ray Bradbery...the author of the book
@RyanRoberson-gc1op considering that: a) it was written in 1953 when many homes didn't even have TV, let alone video transfer, that seems unlikely b) If his views on book to media were against, why did so many of his works go from page to screen? Personally, I generally think the book is better than the movie, but that doesn't make it moronic necessarily.
God bless LeVar Burton. He is a national treasure.
First it will be books Next it will be all the corporate news outlets Then lastly it will be democracy itself
Hurray for Velshi and LeVar!
Thank You LeVar✨🇺🇸✨💙
Thank you Ali and LeVar!
I'm a 47 year old soldier retired from the U.S. Army and LeVar Burton is still my hero. Always challenge your own preconceived notions.
Thank you Mr. Burton for teaching me the love of reading from a very young age.
LeVar Burton is a living legend to me. I'm a molecular biologist. I taught myself to read at a very young age because he made reading look amazing on Reading Rainbow. Geordi LaForge was one of several characters who made me want to be a scientist. LeVar Burton played a blind man who used science to see.
Thank you, Mr Burton!❤
The irony of those burning the books having been the very ones who should have read them - if they could read.
Banning books makes many people read the books that are banned. Books they have never heard of becoming interesting. If you don't want your own child reading a book, don't allow them. When does one person's interest supercede the interest of the majority.
If someone calls me "Woke", I wear it like a badge of honour.
Better than joke 😊
Me too!
And you should!
Fahrenheit 451 is an eye-opening good movie. I haven't read the book yet. I love Levar Burton. He played such an incredible role in Roots.
I use to ban playboy from the children but I don't want to be a book banner so now I let them read it for the articles.
Levar hi love your works especially gordi lol. I'm totally onboard with what you stand for , I happen to be living in desantis land unfortunately . There is no room for this ignorance in society in all aspects of life. Imagine if Trump and desantis are to be in office together - I think I'd become Canadian
If I had the geld, I would move. But Canada is too cold! I have a southern california metabolism.
You would think that someone who reads would know that age-restricting adult content is ABSOLUTELY NOT the same as "banning" books! If you can still buy those books (which you can), they have NOT been banned. Please stop promulgating these absurd lies!
I have to say this - banning books - is uniquely an American thing. I'm Australian. We don't do this. Like at all.. The political middle has been MIA. For YEARS NOW. The rot HAS TO STOP. The silent majority MUST become the vocal majority. Be challenged. Push your boundaries. For the future of this world - WE MUST CHANGE.
That's one of the things patriotic Americans need to say when books (or comic books in the 1950s) are threatened with a ban. "We don't do this." And, "You are wrong and un-American to ask this." The head of E.C. comics in the 1950s was asked to defend a horror comic book involving a decapitation, possibly on the cover. He shouldn't have defended it since that made him look weak, stupid or a liar; he should have gone on the attack! We don't know which image or idea might be important to the culture. Perhaps a veteran had witnessed such a thing in war, but couldn't talk about it in civilian society? Maybe it would be a trigger, or a talking point or healing? Maybe horror comics could have been important to help stop the next war in the 1960s.
You'll be pleased to learn that you've been misinformed. Americans don't ban books, either. All of these titles are available to purchase via Amazon, Book People, Powell's or any number of other book retailers. NO BOOKS HAVE BEEN BANNED. They have only been age-restricted in public schools. The MSM is misrepresenting this because creating division is how they make their money now.
@@colormedubious4747 Sounds like only people with money should have access to books according to your argument. Like a rich person who has a room with 100s of books; why would they want a public library?
@@colormedubious4747 so let me rephrase my comment Seeking to limit the availability of books from free public sources like say a library (including a school library) is a uniquely Merican thing. As in the US is the ONLY place in the entire world that engages in such behaviour. I'm Australian. We don't do it. Like at all. I had 2 kids & have 4 grandkids so I'd be aware if it was happening. It isn't. My late husband was French born - he had a copy of Mein Kampf - a book that I'd've thought folk would've been lining up to ban because of the ideology expressed. What does the US seek to ban from public spaces. How bout the Life of Rosa Parks? Mightn't know her but Rosa was the first Freedom Rider. Who were they? African Americans who wanted to ride buses to get places, just like the white man did. But you've got some (mainly white) Mericans who still think black people are subhuman who don't wanna be confronted by their reprehensible, repugnant beliefs. Tough.
@@sandal_thong8631 A fine example of the classic strawman argument fallacy. I made NO such argument. I only pointed out that the MSM was lying about this. Nice to know where you stand on the issue of truth in media. As to your last question, why don't you ask Andrew Carnegie why he funded and built more than 2,500 libraries throughout the English-speaking world? It really sounds as if YOU could spend a lot more time in your local library.
Thank you, Mr. Burton. I was an avid fan of Reading Rainbow as a child. I remember your posters being plastered all over my school - and my school library - in elementary school. Now, I'm a librarian. Thank you for being such a wonderful advocate for intellectual freedom.
Banning books. The very idea sickens me. I understand that a person should be of an acceptable age or grade in school to read some books, but that's so the person understands what is being said & the references that are made in whatever book it is, NOT to keep the reader SAFE!! Farinheit 451 was one of my favorites in grade 10. Amimal farm is another Fantastic book!! What are we trying to do? I imagine that without the experience of reading such books does leave one with a narrow view of the world. Learning to understand what the book was about leads to better understanding of what the entire WORLD is about - or WAS about when it was written. Are we so scared & ashamed of ourselves & our past, that LESS knowledge is better than MORE knowledge? Terrible things happened in the past. To pretend it never happened because it may make someone feel sad/upset, well that is just a part of EVERYONES life. It's like trying to FORCE us to use "preferred pronouns". If someone asked me to refer to them in a certain way, I guess I would try, but if I were to forget, I don't see that as being something to lose your job over. The more restrictions we force unto others, the dumber we become as a society. I am polite, & if I say "Hello Sir" to someone that dosen't see themselves as a male, but I cannot tell by looking at them, they should be happy that I am trying to be respectful - even if I CAN'T read their minds. Free speech & thought - including all I learned from those books (& many others) is something that should not be banned just because someone may feel upset. It's Become TRULY ridiculous. Only people with tunnel vision can feel this way. Those of us who had the chance to read things that MADE us THINK are not going to break down because of a book. Meanwhile - Movies & TV shows often say things that may upset someone, but it's often just a part of the story, & the show, & if it's a good one, has many fans BECAUSE they learn new things - or old things that they did not know B4, even if it is/was terrible. In high school I was ENCOURAGED to read books - any & all books. Now that whole idea is something to be WORRIED about!? Once again - less available knowledge will only serve to make our society less knowledgeable - & THAT'S a scarier thought than anything in any book I'VE ever read.
Gotta love me some sweet Levar eloquence.
Indeed, _all_ prejudice is fear.
Imagine the GOP banning various genres of books including the bible? Extremely concerning.
What are you guys gonna do about it? Be concerned?
The GOP want to ban every book EXCEPT the bible despite the fact that the bible is the most violent and most sexually explicit book ever!
I don't think it was the bibble thumping, when it suits them, GOP who tried/banned the bible, but someone who was showing them how ludicrous their banning books was. A master move in my opinion.
@@sethabel4315 You guys‼Indicative of "US against THEM", sadly that it's come to this😭🧢=🗽🙋🏻♀
None of the books are banned. They can be purchased in your local bookstore
Are there books that I might not enjoy reading? Possibly. So if I start reading a book and find it objectionable y’know what I do? I stop reading it…. I don’t insist that no one else can read it. 🤷🏼♀️ People who ban books have never been the “good guys”. 🙄🤦♀️
LeVar Burton is THE MAN
Props to LeVar Burton.
i don't have kids and have been less engaged in this but jordy le forge's words will always command my attention.
Levar deserves a Star Trek series centered around him. He's put the work in. Star Trek Le'Forge. With Geordi as a Captain who chooses none else than Data as his Number One.
VERY IMPORTANT and excellent segment!! Everyone should listen to this conversation.
"Abysmally ignorant" - so well said.
OK, so we have this thing called the internet, where we could create a library containing all the books that have been and will be banned. A place where they could be found by anyone who wanted to read them.
Twenty-five years ago I was attending a fundy xtian high school. This banned books thing was a well-known and long-standing goal. Too much leeway is given to those places.
Please give us an Encore performance Ms Karmela Harris on the "Passage Of Time!" 👏Bravo!👏🤣
America is so backwater, that it has to have *Literacy* advocates! Cool.
LeVar Burton is a national treasure. Reading Rainbow was more beneficial for this country than the GOP has been over the last 3 decades.
If you don't want to read a book, don't read it. If you think something is wrong, don't do it. But if you value individual rights and freedom, you have to foster them,... for others first. "The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?"
Hey, Jordy has lovely eyes!😅
Actually its spelled Geordi.
@@StillSaber I see you've already handled it, my intended comment is unnecessary. Merci boucoups!
Can anyone link me to one of these banned books? Just curious. :)
Make it so, Commander La Forge!
Levar Burton black don't crack❤❤😘 You are a beautiful soul! I watched Reading Rainbow in the 70s❤
I am a voracious reader, and just the act of reading has improved the quality of my life much more than anything I learned in college. This year, I have exclusively read books that have been banned and critically reviewed by lunatics. Reading is the window to the world, but it is also relative to the student. Everyone has the propensity to digest information through the lens we view the world. In other words, everyone is biased and will remain who we are, regardless of academic credentials, race, age, gender or financial status.
read a rainbow
I wish they were honest in thier reporting.
With all the wonders of the internet at everyones disposal, ...banning paper books? Really?😂😂😂
If only he had the same ability like Jordi Laforge from Star Trek, next generation, able to send all those people who are trying to ban books to the Klingon home world
Carl Sagan, Rod Serling and Frank Zappa were prescient and right
Doesn't he owe some reparations to somebody or something?
What books? It's probably inappropriate books
Doesn't banning books seem....Cowardly to you? Even when a book has an idea that you or I disagree with isn't that an oppertunity to discuss WHY we disagree? To refuse to even have the conversation, then, is to say "i have no arguement - I just don't like it." well, in that case- tough. As for me,- Please, read the banned books! Challenge my ideas! Give yourself and me the chance to grow, learn argue,- and ultimately decide who we are.
Their ideas are conformity and total control. An ideal in America is we don't tell others what they can't read!
Good felicitious work Levar
Read On Levar, Read On! 📙 👍❤
Levar! 💗
Tell ‘em Levar
Ray Bradbury is one of my idols. It makes me sick that his future dystopic warning has almost become a reality, with Fahrenheit 451 even banned in some southern states.
With all due respect to Mr. Burton - I admire him and I agree with 99% of what he is saying - I feel there's a big difference between a person who's truly awake and a person who's woke.
Such a pleasure to listen to him Reason. That is the fight here, the forces of Rationality, against the mobs' mindless "beliefs". Another famous and important Rationalist phrased it exactly. Religion poisons everything. C. Hitchens.
Let us not feed those trolling and patting each other on the back that no books have been banned. They can go to the library for themselves, they need it.
You cannot wake a person who is pretending to sleep.
Mr Burton is an American hero.
I was thinking, there should be a sign showing a pile of books being burnt (Germany, late 1930s?) with the caption; "a first step to Fahrenheit 451, the fiction becoming reality".
If only she could speak as coherently in interviews. Her interviews are always this strange word salad so that you don't think she has a position on anything. She needs to speak on TV as good as this, and rarely does.
Captain Planet, you're my hero
Read your history. The people who ban books are never the good guys.
You read your history, socialism never works, it is nothing but a marketing campaign used to control the people stupid enough to be fooled by it.
@@sigsauer7929 Lol. So you are equating those who are against censorship with being a socialist! That is hilarious.
@@trevx3680 No genius, I'm clearly saying you are being lied to, just like every other fool that has been led down the socialist propaganda path.
@@sigsauer7929 Lol. This has nothing to do with socialism, but it has a great deal to do with fascism and authoritarianism.
@@trevx3680 So, let’s just be clear about the obvious lie here, no one is banning books, you can get any books anywhere and anytime outside the school libraries, and the books being scrutinized by the schools and parents are pushing inappropriate reading material into the schools’ libraries. If a parent or child wanted to, they could go to their local bookstore to purchase it or buy it online. So, if you cannot see how transparent that lie is then you are hopeless. Besides the book banning propaganda is just a small part of it, our federal government has exceeded its constitutional authority by unilaterally pushing and funding the divisive DEI propaganda into our public schools to indoctrinate our kids, that is fascism. Equity in DEI is not equality, how they are teaching equity is a form of Marxism, which is the opposite of meritocracy, meritocracy is as fair and equal as a society can be. They are teaching elementary kids that white people are racist just because of their skin, that all other races are part of a racist country, and that they should just give up and embrace being a victim. We are already a very diverse and inclusive society, certainly as much as any other country and more than we ever have been. The mandate, lockdowns, and the strategy to use public health emergencies are all so that they can try and seize control. They control the mainstream corporate-owned media, the corporate hospitals, most of our universities, the NGOs like the CDC and FDA, and most of our elected government leaders, all captured and corrupt. The only thing saving us is the fact that we are a constitutional republic and we have many good leaders that still believe in individual freedom and meritocracy. Mussolini and Hitler both great examples of evil fascism, they both started out as socialist politicians, and ironically Mussolini started out as a journalist. They both sold the public on their socialist ideas which made it easier to control the masses and seize power which is perfect for fascism to thrive. This is exactly what this democrat administration is doing, and why they keep pushing more power into government control. They want to replace individual freedoms and meritocracy with equity and government control which is socialism, and the real end goal of the global powers that have funded this trillion-dollar campaign across all of Western civilization is to make it easier to control the masses and the socialist governments, this is a corporatocracy.
Way to go Jordi.
Not sure if I accept that 'the world is changing.' There have always been people who are hateful and do not want to be open to any experience beyond their own bigotry. The only 'change' is that they now have an echo chamber and are shouting very LOUDLY.
"The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture." -Ray Bradbury
How about teaching critical thinking skills to discern what to decide about situations rather than directing what kids can and can't think at all? But, no, some people want only thier own way and push it on everyone else. Critical thinking skills go against their agenda.