I received an email this afternoon from a well-intentioned friend of mine. The email listed a bunch of books Sarah Palin supposedly sought to have banned when she became mayor of a small Alaskan town.
Since there were so many amazing classics in the list, my B.S. detector went off. I looked it up on Snopes.com, and as it turns out, the email is false.
This kind of thing discredits liberals, making us look just as bad as those fire-breathing conservatives who keep insisting Obama is a closet Muslim (which is false to begin with, but also implies it’s scandalous to be a Muslim). We should rise above the hysteria and function from our strengths – empathy, intelligence, and dedication to social justice.
Take the high road, people.
Tags: banned books, sarah palin, snopes
Leave a Reply