Italian party calls for ban of Anne Frank diary

[Wanted Man]

"Ban pornography pages in diary Anne Frank '

Published: January 15, 2010 20:17
Last modified: January 15, 2010 20:17

MILAN - The reading of the entire diary of Anne Frank in Italian elementary schools should be banned because the work of the''Jewish girl''contains pornographic pages.

This requires Paolo Grimoldi lawmaker of the governing party Lega Nord, in a letter to Education Minister Maria Stella Gelmini.

A primary school in Usmate Velate in the Lombardy region had 9-year-old children to read the entire diary in which Anne Frank writes about her budding sexuality.

Description of body parts

''There is a passage in which Anne Frank detailed and comprehensive''describes her intimate body parts, said the center-right parliamentarian. ''The description is so detailed that it inevitably leads to confusion among children of primary school.''

The director of the school is not impressed by the criticism. ''I think the Minister of Education where she has more important things to give attention to keep''said Claudio Redaelli Friday in the newspaper La Repubblica. He is the diary of Anne Frank and his TV innocent looking children in the 21st century used very different.

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http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/2163419/verbied-pornopaginas-in-dagboek-anne-frank.html

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:rolleyes:

[Rjevan]

It's always fascinating how inventive fascist can get when it comes to get rid of unpleasant facts. Well, I hope their proposal will be as successful as mine now will be: I call for the ban of Lega Nord.

[Raúl Duke]

Lega Nord are full of racist idiots...
I hope the book is not banned in school and at most the only thing they do is move the book to require reading at a different grade level (i.e. to the same age group as Anne Frank at the time the book was written).

[The Red Next Door]

Somebody will always find some reason to ban something because there something in a book or any other kind media, that people who do not know any better will find distasteful and joining the ban this and that wagon

[tnt]

it is unbeliavble fact that they are playing now so low targeting youngest population...i wouldnt like to sound over dramatic about this but if you look at it from the side of a kid reading this book....its not bunch of history datas wraped in endless texts of informations...facts on which history in primary school is based on(at least mine was)...that's gonna stay in your mind in that age and leave the real feeling of war and idea of what holocaust might be...
it is literature written by somebody you can identify with.
bastards know which card to play on

[ZeroNowhere]

''There is a passage in which Anne Frank detailed and comprehensive''describes her intimate body parts, said the center-right parliamentarian. ''The description is so detailed that it inevitably leads to confusion among children of primary school.''Let's ban this book, it could confuse primary schoolers! Think of the children!

[*Viva La Revolucion*]

No books should ever be banned.

Everyone knows how important Anne Frank's diary is, not just as a historical document or as a reminder of the holocaust, but as an honest coming-of-age story. I'd imagine a lot of people would be able to relate to Anne's everday struggles as she's undergoing physical and emotional changes. It's tiring how often people misuse the term 'pornographic' as well.

If the description confuses children then that sounds as though they're in need of basic anatomy lessons.

[NaxalbariZindabad]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo

[Lodestar]

Where are these self-professed defenders of morality when hate literature by their peers on the far right gets published?

I guess there's a double standard here, but that's only a hunch.

[rednordman]

Where are these self-professed defenders of morality when hate literature by their peers on the far right gets published?

I guess there's a double standard here, but that's only a hunch.Very good point there. Defenders of morality indeed!:rolleyes:

[Belisarius]

as the saying goes:" where books are burnt, people are burnt."

[Stand Your Ground]

That's just ridiculous. The right thinks they shouldn't be censored for their prejudices but they wanna censor historical books?

[gorillafuck]

I personally have not read any of Anne Franks diary so I'm not familiar with the passages they're referring to, but I can't imagine that any part of it is "pornographic". Does writing about sexuality amount to pornography to them?:confused:

[Tablo]

As boring as I thought the book was, it is certainly not something that should be banned. I fucking hate these fascist turds.