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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6710104" data-attributes="member: 4937">&quot;It didn’t come from the government down...There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no!...You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, what do we want in this country above all? People want to be happy, isn’t that right?...Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo.&nbsp; Burn it.&nbsp; White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin.&nbsp; Burn it.&nbsp; Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs?&nbsp; The cigarette people are weeping?&nbsp; Burn the book.&nbsp; Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag.&nbsp; Take your fight outside.&nbsp; Better yet, to the incinerator.” - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451That was written in 1953 when people were laying the intellectual groundwork for your good intentioned outrage.Today, not ironically and quite appropriately, what he wrote also requires a &quot;trigger warning&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6710104, member: 4937"] "It didn’t come from the government down...There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no!...You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, what do we want in this country above all? People want to be happy, isn’t that right?...Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, to the incinerator.” - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 That was written in 1953 when people were laying the intellectual groundwork for your good intentioned outrage. Today, not ironically and quite appropriately, what he wrote also requires a "trigger warning". [/QUOTE]

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