The PC folks want to get into the act. You can't give in to any of the censors. I don't care where they're coming from. Because we'll have nothing then. The Anarchist Cookbook , for instance.
Censorship can be an insidious and almost viral thing.
No matter what side of the political fence you straddle, it's likely easy to point to a book that you think would be better for children not to read. After a while, as Blume suggests, we would be sitting in libraries with empty shelves with minds crippled with a lack of prisms through which to view the world. That's not to say that you can't fight the good fight for your children. It's a parent's responsibility and privilege to impart values and morals to their children from a very early age. Since you'll never be able to control everything your child is exposed to, it only makes sense to work with the things you can affect.