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That’s not the only time you ran porn in the paper. 😏

I don’t know if you remember, but there was an editorial cartoon by Adam Zyglis. It was a take on Michelangelo’s Creation. It showed Roger Ailes as God 🤮 and Donald Trump as Adam.

Two people wrote to say that it was pornography.

"It is disgusting pornography designed to denigrate our president and in turn every citizen in the country."

And:

"our president wearing only a leaf and depicted as a lazy pervert touching hands with ... Roger Ailes."

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I don’t recall that one, but it seems like the cartoonist got that one about right.

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Thanks again, Ken, for pushing my buttons and sharing Preller’s insight: “When we ban books…we surrender our ability to build empathy, compassion, and understanding.” I concur.

I would add that it all comes down to a lack of humility. By humility I do not mean a “Casper milquetoast” kind of mentality or attitude.

Humility, for me, means creating an empty space in our lives where others can enter in. We are so full of our own ideas, opinions, feelings, experiences, and stories, that we have no room in our lives for the stories, experiences, feelings, opinions, and ideas of others—whether we agree with them or not.

Banning books arises out of a lack of humility, of not creating space in our lives where others can enter in. Where there is no humility there is no “empathy, compassion, or understanding.”

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Well said.

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I have read many, many of those “banned “ books over the years. As far as I can tell, I turned out to be fairly well rounded adult.

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And will today's books also make the banned list? The Color of Law; The Sum of Us; Four Hundred Souls; the War before the War; Caste, Empire of the Summer Moon; Ida B The Queen; The Overland Railroad; On Juneteenth. Read them now - we were never taught any of this in school.

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Ken - Excellent comprehensive review of the event in Saratoga last week. You were an excellent facilitator, enthusiastic about the cause and about your role in preserving the freedom to read and write what we want. Thank you again.

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It’s a great event. Hopefully you can continue to build on this.Maybe fill up the City Center next time and eventually the Glens Falls Civic Center.

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I'm game to work on that if you are!! We have the format ready to go!

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Absolutely!

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Every book and song of the event was mentioned in your article except Amanda Gorman's poem/book "The Hill We Climb". I'm curious to know why you would exclude it's mention.

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No particular reason. It certainly would have been easy to include.

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