Found this on /pol/.I wonder if you'd like to share your thoughts on it:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9140869/Dantes-Divine-Comedy-offensive-and-should-be-banned.htmltl;dr some human rights group has said that Dante's Divine comedy is racist, sexist, homophobic, and antisemitic and islamophobic, and therefore should be banned.
Next up: Aristotle banned for justifiying slavery.
>>2621178Or Plato for fascism.
>leftists
>telegraphYes, I did some searching - all I could find were shitty right-wing blogs referring back to this single article.
>>2621176Yeahyeahyeah,idiots cherrypicking idiots to make a case.>inb4 200 responses>inb4 stormfront
>inb4 this group gets its shit slapped by the Italian governmentIt'll never happen, retards.
>fucking with italian cultural heritage>italian>guys who invented fascism>dismissing their most prided literature because some muslims take offenceGood luck with that.
>>2621195>It'll never happen, retards.Famous last words.
>>2621204It's a good thing Italians can't fight for shit.
>>2621210no one takes this shit seriously. it's ludicrous. i mean, no one is taking this seriously as a mooted proposal except dumb right wing "YOU COULDN'T MAKE IT UP" assholes who want to use it as a stick with which to rhetorically beat anyone who says that 'maybe screaming racial obscenities constantly is not the best thing we could be doing as a society'.no one is going to ban dante's divine comedy because of political correctness.
>>2621210come on, really think it will?
>>2621225Same goes for Arabs, so I'll get popcorn and enjoy the show.
>>2621227You make such a reasoned argument I'm now convinced.
>>2621239i'm sorry that i am not arguing from first principles that, as a matter of practical political reality, dante's divine comedy is not likely to be banned. it seems to me so obvious that no one arguing in good faith could really disagree? like come on do you really think that is probable. really. do you really, realistically think that's probable. it's clearly not so.
Up next they'll ban 1001 nights for polygamy
The Epic of Gilgamesh is pro prostitution! Boo!!
Marquis de Sade is immoral.
>>2621247It's troubling. Libraries and schools are under constant pressure from one group or another to ban something. I agree it's doubful. But it's very troubling.
Original thread here.direct link to the thread in /pol/>>>/pol/2996072
Remember that nun on TV talking about erotic artworks? She could get into big trouble.
>>2621227>Criticize the right for cherrypicking the worst of the worst of the left and pretending it represents the entire left.>Pretend that the right is represented by the worst of the worst of the right.
I wouldn't put it past our shitbag politicians to try and put warning on books, like they do with every fucking thing ever invented.>This book has been declared RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, ISLAMOPHOBIC, and ANTISEMITIC by the U.S. Department of Culture.
>>2621272Thanks for the link.
>>2621277i didn't say, and didn't mean to imply, that those assholes represented anything like the entirety of the right wing
>>2621281they don't put warnings on things for political correctness, though. they put warnings on things for "graphic content", that is, things that suburban yahoos don't want their kids seeing. broadly different kinds of things. cmon, get it straight.
>>2621272Glad I followed the link.10/10, those /pol/boys hit it out of the park every time.
>>2621286I think that the inferno merits having a graphic material warning, it is rather graphic. But come on, its hell.I think the whole thing is outrageous. What next? Kalevala? Homer? Ibn Khaldun?This is pure and simple bashing of white culture.
>>2621272oh woah thats actually kind of a good thread
>>2621297>>2621289I posted the link because I was the OP in the /pol/ thread. This is actually only my second visit (ever) to /lit/.
This reminds me of the bible-thumping red neck idiot psycho Christians and harry potter. No. Just no. This is ignorance. They're probably saying some shit like "It promotes it" or "It makes people do it". Just like some politicians want to ban violent video games because they "cause violence in teens". For the love of your non existing god, shut the fuck up. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean you get rid of it. Christ. I apologize for ranting.
>>2621321My niece went to a Christian HS during the Harry Potter boom. My sister, who works there, told me the parents were pretty much slipt down the middle. Half not liking the book and the other hafl thrilled that their kids were reading.
>>2621333Aah. This thread reminds me of the jesus camp documentary. That's probably why I'm so pissed off. Interesting to know most were split. Nice trips, by the way.
I wish people would realize that just because something is can be taken as offensive doesn't mean it should be banned.
>>2621352Agreed.
I don't think anything other than kiddie porn should be banned.
>>2621370Don't say that on /b/. Although, personally, I second that.
No other picture is appropriate. If it isn't racist, sexist, homophobic, antisemitic, and islamophobic, then it isn't from 14th century Italy.
It's so emblematic of the dying intellectual culture that people think works need to be placed "in context," as if to say the "correct" context has already been discovered, and is standing at the ready to save poor young people from being exposed to thoughts and ideas that don't exactly resemble their own. It's like intellectual and cultural incest. Jesus.
I think the majority of modern television and pop music should be banned. But not Dantay.
Beowulf should be banned because it glorifies the killing of the retarded.
>>2621370Snuff, rape porn (not simulated, actual), bestiality ... Basically anything that can't consent ...Not in literature though, no one's actually getting hurt then ...
>>2621388Now I want to read Beowulf.
>>2621391But sometime the animal likes it.
well of course it's ridiculous, can't think of anything else to say.
>>2621388
>>2621388Beowulf should be banned because it's boring as all hell.
>>2621391Better on paper, then on video.
>>2621401God damnit. >then on video>then>THAN*
>>2621391Agree. Except for bestiality. Not that I care for it.Has it ever been proven there are Snuff, rape porn? Or is it's existence a myth?
>that feel when you can murder and eat your pets but can't make love to them
>>2621407I have a dog. And I love my dog. But the furthest we go is petting and face licking.
>>2621405If it exists there is porn of it. There's a reason no one knows about it. We're not supposed to.The likelihood of porn including death is slim due to the government and how everyone is "registered" and such... but if there is a will, there's a way. I myself don't know. But someone does.
>>2621411I understand. They're a bit hard to convince, but if you keep up the petting, eventually you'll get put it in.
>>2621414If either of you want to continue down the rabbit hole, you'll need to get a good set up for the Deep Web made. I used to use Polipo and TOR. You'll need to find you way to the wiki from there. I'm sure someone at that level could help.I myself never figured it out, but I didn't care enough to.
>>2621414This. Killing the people you fuck is a rather timeless human activity. I don't see why nobody would record it.
>>2621417I avoid the "Deep Web". FBI, DEA stings abound without a doubt.
Since we are at it, what tis the most depraved piece of literature you have ever read, /lit/?It's Les Chants de Maldoror in my case.
>>2621434I try not to read that sort of thing, it isn't healthy, especially when your mind is already given to violent depraved behavior.
>>2621434de Sade. Don't even remember which one it was. Still in bookshelf somewhere though.
>>2621444I think Lautréamont is even more shocking than Sade. In one scene, Maldoror's dog rapes a little girl. When his master comes back the dog runs away but, since his penis had formed a knot, he carries the girl along across a forest. When Maldoror finally manages to catch them, he simply finishes the job by knifing her vagina.It is very fucking disturbing, but the text itself is pretty well written.
>>2621417Already ahead of you. Tor already installed, been down there a couple times myself. I just never felt the need to know. Deep web is boring unless you have a purpose there, and I never did find one. Ignorance is bliss..
>>2621455I'm not for banning it but I don't understand why stuff like this exists. I think I must be naive.
>>2621460Well, he is frequently cited as a major inspiration for Surrealism and Dada.
I think we should just ban everything, easier that way
>inb4 "we should ban the bible because of violence, rape, slavery, etc."
"The human heart is a monstrous beast wallowing in blood, darkness, and sin." - somebody in one of the Hellraiser stories, I can't remember what the name was though.
That same justification could easily be used to argue for the banning of any religious text.Some folks just don't think
>>2621460It was a major inspiration for most writers of the 20th century.
I was in an airport once and a guy from a foreign country flying home started talking to me. We got on the subject of the internet. He believed that governments should verify the truth of everything before it would be allowed to be put on the internet.
>>2621483We should do that with speech, as well.Just take away the ability to lie.Like in that movie with that one guy.Shit.Ricky Gervais!The Invention of Lying!Except before they invent it.
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>>2621400>beowulf>boringmfw I saw that.
>>2621486>>2621489When I was young it was an adage; never take any class that requires you to read Beowulf.
>>He believed that governments should verify the truth of everything before it would be allowed to be put on the internet.What an odd idea. Why on earth would anyone trust a government to be an arbiter of truth?
>>2621735He was an educated guy. Returning home after college here. How anyone could believe that was both troubling and incomprehensible. He probably works for his government now. (He might fit in at the UN)
>racist, sexist, homophobic, and antisemitic and islamophobicLOL @ Western world double-think.So many people who subscribe to "left" political constructs harbour an obscene amount of prejudice.
I bet you could get Muslims to boycott B&N if you publicize that their Classics line has a depiction of Muhammad naked and ripping his own chest open
>>2623446ooze your mucus-trail of privilege while you can, honky slug, the international proletarian revolution will salt you soon enough
>>2623461>>2623461>honky slug>salt you soon enoughWell done. You won't take me alive.
I bet the "human-rights group" is secretly just a bunch of assdevastated florentines.
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