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Also A Song of Ice and Fire. I sure as hell should not have been reading those books at 15
Jun 25, 2025 3:29 PM
Kairuf
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Also A Song of Ice and Fire. I sure as hell should not have been reading those books at 15
420supercoolusername69
I’ve read a lot of “right wing” books including “My Struggle” (<-English title) and none of them have any substantive arguments. It’s all whining.
BobTheWeak
I dunno, I can still have an intelligent conversation with right-wing readers. I'd rather people read garbage than nothing at all.
Tumescentpie
I read Terry goodkind as a teenager. It did correlate with my libertarian view point at the time. But as I aged, I stopped being an immature dipshit and now am as far left as you can imagine.
NachtReborn
Based on all the book reports I heard, my entire generation read Stephen King's It in about 7th/8th grade.
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req4adream99
A parent / trusted adult stopping a kid from reading a book they don’t think is appropriate for that kid isn’t the same as that book being taken out of circulation completely - and saying that you wished there was a responsible trusted adult to say that a book you’re reading isn’t appropriate also isn’t censorship. No one is against parents / assholes choosing what books*their* kids can read. People are against parents / assholes choosing what *all* kids can read. This is not a fucking paradox.
Letstrythisonemotime
Your first statement is contradicted by your second. Seems like you learned and made your own decisions through life experience and the availability of literature.
laserfrog
OP is not talking about banning, but of adults helping with ratings or recommendations.
dasAchteck
i remember reading some pretty graphic stuff like cujo and some series about a vietnam war sniper. i also read some rand, but honestly, the more one reads, the less susceptible they are to indoctrination. there is absolutely value in parental presence in what they are reading, but no librarian is pushing a kid to read GoT.
Kairuf
Mine actually did, mind you that was more because she was running out of known fantasy series (mid 2000s) to recommend me
hisnameisshdynasty
At least you developed critical thinking to make your own decisions and opinions
thefellerwhathadthatusername
I feel you, OP. In 6th grade I thought I was here to be a die-hard, born-again, Southern Christian soldier for the Lord. I believed in the "Lost Cause" myth of the Civil War, and got in trouble for doodling dumb shit like 'death to Yankees' in my notebooks. Hard not to cringe looking back on it; harder to see people fall for it even in the Online Era. Yet another few entries on the "list of reasons why public education is of paramount importance for any free society that wishes to remain so."
ontarioOT
So, what you're saying is the woke got you? /s
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DrFlukeHawkins
I read the hunt for red October...and can now build a nuclear sub because of all the damn unnecessary details
thefellerwhathadthatusername
Seriously, I thought "Rainbow Six" was SO motherfuckin cool when I was a teen. Looking back on it, it's a cringey bunch of bootlicking, military-idolizing masturbation, with characters less depthful than harlequin romance characters (defined by the size of various parts of their anatomy).
I guess Ol' Tom knows what he likes, and that's the idea that there are Bad People, and the best solution for 'em is ballistic (and delivered by the Impeccably High Moral Fiber of our Armed Servicemembers).
xizar
I blame Microprose and Sean Connery. (When the backpain hits, I will sometimes mutter "I would liked to have seen Montana.")
xizar
Meh. I've read most of Ayn Rand's stuff and I ended up progressive/socialist as fuck.
sesamestreetfighter
I read Anthem in high school and I'm also very socialist. Idk if the book had that effect on me but learning she died while on social benefits after reading it was a canon event in my life.
Kairuf
I ended up progressive as fuck as well. Oddly enough it was serving a Mormon mission in Texas that got me on that path.
DodgyMerchant
I think actually reading the book has a counter effect, like the Bible had on me, but without all the really cunty responses to my questions at Sunday School aged 9l.
InfocalypseRising
i gotta ask, are those books well written at all? I sort of want to read one just to see what the deal is but at the same time that's a lot of work for something I more or less know I'm going to hate
xizar
Anthem is short enough, and I enjoyed it. Atlas Shrugged is good overall, but there's a reason everyone complains about Galt's monologue.1/
xizar
(to be clear, I'm not endorsing her espoused philosophies, just talking about my opinions on the quality of her writing.)/2
ChromaticPassingTone
Would you like to know more?
Icanhearwhatyouresayingandtheanswerisno
Yep, that movie was nothing like the book (thank Eru)
ma8e
The problem wasn't that you were exposed to right wing propaganda. The problem was that no one made sure that you also got the see the arguments from the other side.
ma8e
And don't fret over being an idiot at 15. Most of us were in one way or another.
OutlawGerman
I'm still an idiot
realrealluckless
If you don't think you were dumb when you were younger, then I'm going with you're obviously pretty stupid today.
SpotMeBro
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