I have to laugh at the irony of this video being censored and deemed to be age restricted. Though once America goes full on Christofascist and they start implementing this into UA-cam as well it will be the true dark timeline. I mean they recently have banned true stories about two male Penguins that raised an egg and chick, any references to real life Sea Horses because the male ones raise their young and carry the egg sacks, Maus, the book which was about the Holocaust because it....showed people about the Holocaust (yes that's right Atlanta), all depictions of Black slavery, having to change the decimation of the Native population and the trail of tears as they were enjoying being integrated into "American society", any reference to Black history and Martin Luthor King and this is only very recent ones.
I had all the Where's Wally books as a kid. I immediately knew what the issue was going to be as soon as Simon mentioned it. In Australia no-one gave a shit about the topless woman on the beach. Our parents just looked at us like we were immature when we pointed it out, and that was it. We had more controversy around depiction of guns than nudity in children's media.
ye, americans would faint if they would watch a european ad break that feature any hygine product and it's not that the People there are even sexualized
cheer up, im in ireland and back in the 80`s our council thought it would be a good idea to build a crematorium in a townland called ovens! i kid you not. thank goodness the locals objected and it was moved
10:24 i love how simons brain now stumbles when it sees a word with "eff" at the start its like he was waiting for "effortlessly" to pop up but it was "effectively"
Sometimes being from the USA makes me cringe 🤦🏼♀️ Some of the sh**…. If parents would just have a little investment into what their own children are doing at school, they could make their own personal judgment and decided what they feel is right for their own family, instead they choose to force their own beliefs upon everyone with no options. I would absolutely allow my sons to read Huckleberry Finn, but I would also explain to them the language of the time and how we have grown as a human race to see how wrong & disrespectful (at minimum) it is. It really is that simple. Learning is about seeing how we can grow and better our humanity, for others, and ourselves, by seeing the mistakes made out of ignorance in the past.
As an anime fan, fan service is dumb af 95% of the time. And fanservice involving uncomfortably young girls is the absolute worst. It sucks that some shows cater to a specific subset of the fan base that makes the rest of us look bad. Thankfully there's a ton of good shows and manga that don't do that shit.
As an extreme example, Qwaser no Stigmata would be about 1000% better if there was less obsession with breastfeeding. It's a legitimately good shonen action series revolving around people with the ability to control an element (as in the periodic table of elements), but they refuel their powers by...suckling women's breasts. Leading to an uncomfortable amount of time spent doing so during action scenes. I am heavily anti-censorship, but it's a question of quality, not censorship when it comes to many cases of anime fan service. Do we really need to spend so many frames on painstakingly focusing on fake jiggle physics of boobs?
It bugs me to live in a country that boasts "freedom of a speech" and the like then bans certain books in schools as unfit for young minds even though their grandparents and great grandparents read these same books as children.
Freedom of speech and topics unsuitable for children are not mutually exclusive. In fact nothing about removing books from schools is inherently against Freedom of speech since nobody is prohibited to gather and voice that information - its just not a topic in school. Now when you prohibit those books to be sold, being digitalized or burn them, THATS against Freedom of Speech. Their (great-)grandparents have also most likely smoked since the age of 14, so thats they have done it is not a good reason either. The real problem is how they go about the removing of those book in schools: With a diffrent book but from the bronze age and morals straight from the 1950s puritans. Thats the real threat here, not that school may or may not decide against a certain kind of literature.
The whole point of Huck Finn is how ridiculous racism and slavery was. It is a very pointed critique, where Huck treats Jim as a father figure who should be respected, and Tom Sawyer, who is more "cultured," treats him like a slave. The N word was used as it reflected the times. If we understand that and approach the book that way, we see it as the scathing commentary it actually is. Criticizing Huck Fin for this IMHO is like Criticizing American History X because Norton's character uses racist language and commits race based murder before his redemption. AHX is a scathing attack on racism and the never ending cycle of racial violence, and it would not be the same without that part.
Having a problem with Anne's diary because of privacy: good reason Having a problem with it because you want to erase every trace of gay people: bad reason.
One of my favourite stories is about Dr Johnson when 2 "high born" ladies came to him and congratulated him on not including any rude words in his dictionary, his response was to congratulate them on looking them up
@@XXMatt0040XX TRULY TBH. It’s distressing being someone who wants the purity culture here to end and seeing various forms of it such as the obvious here in the video to not so obvious like the moral panic over drag shows. It’s exhausting tbh.
@@Caterfree10 Im just baffeled by the fact how a secular country can have such a massive religious influence. Several reiging partys in europe have "Christian" ("Christ democrats" more often than not) in their name and to my knowledge non of them use religious arguments. The reasoning is they want to keep "Christian morals" (not THOSE morals) which are way better described as "We want to keep the Code Civil (by Napoleon), which the catholic and protestant church have used to rebrand themself as morally good and caring"
I mean, age groups as a thing for books was more a marketing strategy that started during the 20th century and wasn’t that much of a thing in the 1800s. Modifying books is a touchy thing for me. I’d rather just have ones like Huck Finn be taught in schools with proper context. Alternatively, forwards before the text explaining the context as age appropriate as possible is also a good compromise. I mean, we have similar warnings and such in front of old offensive Looney Tunes and also Gone With The Wind. Don’t know why it’s not done more often in books where it’s arguably easier to add.
Agreed. Kids are smarter than most of us give them credit for, they'll figure it out if we provide them the necessary information. Adults, on the other hand, they kinda dumb sometimes LOL
Heard somewhere that Anna Sewell wrote Black Beauty to convince adult carters & such to treat their horses more kindly. If that's true, it definitely didn't work, lol
@@Alexander59059 I mean, sure, but by that token, it’s also easier to have a warning and some contextualization as needed at the front of a book, too. My point was, we already have some examples of film giving warnings, and it seems like the option that would ruffle the least amount of feathers imo.
Even in the 1995 edition of Anne Frank's Diary one passage was left out until the person involved in an early "exploration" attempt was deceased. It starts "Once, out of friendship...." Gotta give her credit for the gutsy move even if it didn't work out.
In Florida And Tango Makes Three is banned. It an adorable story of two boy penguins who hatched an egg together. De result is a girl penguin Tango. It’s the most idiotic ban I can imagine.
brain blaze drinking challenge: take a shot every time Simon assumes that something in the US isn’t batshit insane because it wouldn’t make sense, only to find out two lines later that the US really is Like That
The greatest scandal with Where's Waldo is that I never got to look in the book. My classmates kept taking the damn book from the school library and my parents wouldn't buy the book for me
My English classes have read several books with slurs (the hate you give, to kill a mockingbird, monster, etc) and my teachers just say hey don’t say that word and we just skip over it or say n word or something and focus on the actual story. We also do that in history like when learning about South Africa my teacher showed us offensive words used on government documents to show how bad it was and told us not the say or write them
Same with my classes, tho The Hate U Give wasn’t published while I was still at school (kinda jealous y’all got to read it there tbh!). Instead, one that we had was Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, which has a particular sequence where a slur is used (and then subsequently punished by the protagonist and it was GREAT), but the usage of the slur by itself with no regard to the context around it, including the punishment, has lead to book bans. And probably also that one chapter where the protag says he masturbates, but I feel like the slur gets more air time.
That is the way to do it. With younger kids, I say let's skip the word. But once you are old enough to understand why he used that word, the point he was making using it, you need to have the word there. When talking about things like slavery and racism we can not sugarcoat that. And not to make people feel bad about being white, but so that we never do it again.
@@Riwillion the context considered is that by making people not use it you take away a weapon. You can convey the rascism against black people without teaching people the actual slurs used. And all you need to use it as a slur is to know it. And maybe one day there will be a generation that does not know it as a slur and either wont use it as a slur or not at all. But as long as it is remembered as a slur it will stay one. This is the try of disarming the word. Is it perfect? No. But calling it mindless is just refusing to consider context.
The part about sweating had me laughing so hard. In the summer when I was with my Grandmother and I would tell her how hot is was and I was sweating (I lived in Dallas TX) my Grandmother would say, with her sweet South Carolina accent (where she was from), "Linda horses sweat, men perspire and women glow". I always told her I was a horse!
I like the Hipster Huckleberry Finn. It reminds me of a version of Kafka's Metamorphosis where each entry of the word cockroach was replaced with "CAT" 😻
I worked part time at BJ's Wholesale Club in high school. It's basically the same thing as Costco. All of us employees heard the joke every single time we mentioned where we worked.
A hospital I used to work at had had a Waldo cutout that a worker would hide in a different place every day. I saw him in various spots of the new building next door but my grandma said they’ve been hiding him daily for years for the kids.
@@perrydowd9285 mind you, it wasn't directed towards her, I was just really mad about something. But she turned to me with this shocked, pissed off look that said she was about to pop me one in the mouth until she suddenly realized that I wasn't 10yrs old anymore. Beyond that she really didn't say anything. But.... to this day I will *never* say it in front of my grandmother! 94 years old and she would still pop me on the mouth!🤣
@@meemurthelemur4811 My grandma called me a dirty little bugger when she heard me swear. We've never considered bugger anything more than a very mild substitute for really bad swear words like the F & C bombs. Sod was preferable too. It's odd because her generation were frighteningly paranoid in their homophobia.
To be fair, Anne Frank did write (and edit) a lot of her diaries with the express intent of having it published at some point, as she wanted to be a writer.
On certain self-publishing websites, authors have begun putting disclaimers in that they don't endorse the actions and opinions of the villains in their stories. They still get bad reviews hen the antagonists say things people don't like...
Yes Simon, that's exactly how it's supposed to work. It's simply a disservice to everyone involved to pretend reality didn't happen the way it did. That most certainly prompts history to repeat. Unfortunately, like you said people are awful.
Peak chaos, Simon….love how the Southern accent somehow morphs into a West Country accent. Now going to watch the Blackadder 3rd ep where Dr Johnson leaves his newly-written dictionary with Regent and they accidentally burn it. 😂
Best video in a while! Great to get a Danny script, especially one that sends Simon off on so many "totally appropriate" tangents lol. The writers should start competing to see who can cause the most tangent >.>
You know I'm from Alabama and I always wondered why we never read Anne Frank in school. I had to pick it up on my own after an English teacher recommended it. I always thought it odd she didn't just teach it herself
I live in Australia so... I'm pretty used to things being censored or banned here. Things are improving, but it really has been a bit of a nanny state, particularly with new media like videogames.
@@Alexander59059 I know right? I'm probably extra-sensitive about it because I play games, and the number of times they've banned or delayed a game meant for adults, specifically not intended for children, because it had something they thought was innappropriate for 12 year olds in it, really frustrating. Heck, just about every South Park game has a sequence removed if sold here, Left 4 Dead 2 has most of the gore stripped out, that kind of thing.
@@Whitewingdevil German here, can relate. Games like Wolfenstein were not exactly illegal (not the WW2 setting (COD is fine), not the violence etc), the imagery in it was. Hence why those games either never released or were heavily censored. But that gladly changed since Video Games are since 2015 officially regarded as works of art in front of the law (like books and movies) which specifically allow the useage of all those symbols (always have since 1949!). Now we are at the weird stage where the country doesnt give a flying fck anymore, but the entire gaming industry was conditioned for 25 years to specifically accomodate for the german market and havent exactly caught on yet that this changed loooool My "favorite" form of video game censorship came in 2014, the very last year where i was a legal gray zone to use the symbols in video games: South Park The Stick of Truth. In a form of protest they absolutely halfarsed the cover ups and changed lines from the Nazi Zombies to mock these regulations..... I mean the law change was already on the way, but i appreaciate the fact that South Park made a statement regardless
@@Whitewingdevil To be fair in Australia (have often looked on from home in NZ) it's mostly just been games. I don't think your movie censorship is anything worse than the average really...
There is a school named Bob Jones High School in our town. They have a bunch of flags in front of it with the letters BJ on them and the parents ride around with stickers on their cars that say things like BJ Football and such. Still blows my mind that nobody has brought up the meaning of that.
I found the more notable thing about huckleberry fin was the main moral conflict for huck was that he was doing wrong by helping a slave escape rather than the wrongs of slavery he even comes to the conclusion that he is just a low life for helping Jim but questions why a upright boy like Tom sawyer would help a runaway slave and the entire conclusion of the story is that Tom only helped cause he was actually a freeman and huck and Jim just didn't know it yet
Another UA-camr I like actually discussed this. Saying that he felt that this was the first true American novel as it the books before were still written in European morals and viewpoints but Huckleberry Fin has a main character that chooses what he wants to do, even if it means being wrong and going to hell cause it is what he sees as the right thing to do.
I understand it completely. Lazy parents who also think their Little Bobby and Susie can do no wrong and are sweet little angels, but yet the same parents only want to have anything to do with Bobby and Susie before and after school. About 1/2 of them will also use tv to babysit their kids.
Public library deciding on which book to include in their collection and which not to.... it's their f* job to allocate their budjet. This is who they think they are. If you disagree with their decision, donate the book they refuse to buy to the library.
Yep!! Wally was a British creation , made by the British artis Martin Handford. It was originally created as an advertising gimmick and Wally came out of that.
There are several LGBTQ+ authors I have heard in interviews who honestly don't mind the idiots banning books that much. The Streisand Effect is VERY real! I am happy to ascribe to the S. E. where books are concerned. So much good stuff gets banned.
I mean, I still find it’s not great bc libraries are resources for folks who can’t buy an infinite number of books. Even as good a job as I have, I can’t afford all the books I find myself wanting to read, so the library is still a resource I use. So banning books from any given library will thus remove it from the hands of people who may need it most, ya know?
4:57 breasts literally evolved there to feed babies and small children, so I totally don’t care if my kids saw that! Honestly. Of course we can find them sexy, beautiful, etc. but breasts aren’t nudity in the same way genitals are, because they are not inherently sexual. The same way your hand or tongue can be used very sexually, but they are acceptable in public because they aren’t inherently sexual all the time!
Lol simon going on a tangent about why he prefers real boobs to anime ones 😂 Passionate rants like that are really the heart and soul of brain blaze, so pure hahahahaha Correction: the whole episode is just what i can only call going “full whistler” lol absolutely spectacular to see it in the wild
I remember in a MASH episode Hawkeye said the dictionary was his favorite book because it had all the other books included. Of course meant as a joke. Lol
My rule on my 12 year old son swearing is this: you can use the word if you know what it means. The word can't be used to hurt or belittle anyone. There are certain places and people you don't cuss around. This works well for us.
The book itself, and Mark Twain's views on slavery are quite well known, he was friends with several major abolishnist figures, and in the book itself, the useage of the word, is actually meant as a counter-culture reference to the term itself, there's some great pieces and letters of his that have talked about this.
We have a school librarian here in the states (rural south) that has really stood up to the public school system against book banning. She receives death threats. Her family has been threatened. It’s crazy and terrifying. She speaks across the United States but has to have security. She has written a book That Librarian. It’s about her experiences and the way that the school system has treated her. She’s incredible.
I read Huck Finn three times in my youth starting when I was about ten. It was my favorite book for years. No one needed to tell me that the n word should not be used - even in the 70s. Maybe because the civil rights movement and MLK Jr assassination was so fresh in my memory. I lived in St Louis near the Mississippi River and enjoyed it initially for that reason. When I read it for English in high school I found it wasn’t just a fun book about adventure, friendship, and racism. We delved deeply into the meanings of the river etc. it’s been about 40 years since I read it last. I probably need to read it one more time.
The dictionary bit reminded me of my 5th grade teacher, Mr. Perks, who whenever someone would ask how to spell a word, he'd respond by spelling, "Dictionary".
lmao if someone had yelled "squirrel", I think you'd have leaped up and spun around shouting "where? where?" you look (and sound) just a sneetch over-caffeinated please don't ever change
While there are plenty of things in society today that piss me off, micro-brained people wanting to ban books send me totally off the rails. I'm definitely a bibliophile, and have been so since I learned to read. If you want to censor what your child reads, that's your prerogative. But to attempt to censor what my child reads is unacceptable. And most kids, if told not to do something, are definitely going to do it anyway.
They have started to censor ROALD DHAL books ffs!! What a load of crap! There is nothing not suitable for kids in them, but these days they are "too scary" for the new generation 🤷♂🤷♂
@@williebauld1007While I agree to not censor books, this is a shit argument. "Why take the lead out the pipes? It was good enough for me as a kid, so why not them?" 🙄
@@RHCole taking lead out of pipes is health hazard, what’s “too scary” in a Roald Dahl book, that will give a child nightmares? Absolutely nothing, nothing was scary whatsoever in ANY of the books, I read them all, they sparked my love of reading
@@williebauld1007 I don’t think any book should be censored. I just also think the people responsible are, you know, middle aged businesspeople rather than “kids these days.”
When we read Ann Frank in our Christian school, we had to read around that part out loud so the teach could make sure we all skipped it, knowing it wouldn't be on the test. She somehow forgot I read chapters ahead in every book we were assigned lol. TOTALLY WHAT MADE ME BISEXUAL 😆
Regarding the revision of books and the usage of the n-word, I think it would be less of a problem if the US would actually teach history like we do it here in Germany for example. We have original texts, audio, pictures and as log as they are still alive, survivors lectures. We visit concentration camps and it’s not unusual to have students cry in class. It’s uncomfortable and hard to stomach but it’s necessary to drill it into the next generations heads to hopefully prevent it from ever happening again. Let children be upset about it. That’s exactly the reaction a feeling human being should have seeing those pictures/books etc. Also it’s the equivalent of Highschool curriculum (16-19yo) so we’re not traumatising 11 yo.
Unlike Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn is not really at all a children’s book. I guess as they are two childhood friends that that misconception was inevitable, but that is part of Samuel Clemens genius. Even though it is not really a companion piece, the compare and contrast of the subject matter it immensely different. That said Huckleberry Finn is easily one of my top 10 favorite books and was a mindblowingly subversive and effective texts of its time.
Its funny that even when simon does a southern accent. He does what is closest to a gentrified southern accent. In which he still sounds as the brits would say posh
As an American I don't understand either. People in this country like to talk about freedom but it seems the people who talk about it the most are the first to try and ban things. It's like they don't know what freedom means, or maybe they know they don't believe in freedom but use the word anyway. It really wouldn't surprise me, I've found that American culture does not value honesty, and the more towards the wings (both sides) people are the less honesty is valued.
Re "no young boy would ever say no to side-boob" - I'd just like to acknowledge that young boys who grow up to be gay or ace might and that's ok. They tend to be much more open-minded about this type of thing as adults than straight religious men, but we all change our minds about a few things as we grow up.
This book banning and erasing words is ridiculous. History isn’t supposed to be comfortable. How can you learn from mistakes of the past if the future ppl won’t know what they are because it’s literally being erased
@@davidmcgill1000 i think the monuments and statues is contextual. I think many need to be renovated to remove reverence to people who caused so much harm, but instead shows the awful impact they had Many are still here statues. I think instead they should be relocated to museums as an educational tool that had context behind it
I spent most of middle school time in “in school suspension”. We were able to either do our class work or write definitions from the dictionary. Naturally, I chose to write the definitions from the dictionary. I believe I chose wisely.
So, every one is going on about having these books in school libraries, but what I want to know is, why the outrage when my school library carried Lolita? The librarian didn't even bat an eye when I checked it out in middle school.
As you were talking about how much of a coincidence it was your neck was itchy while reading about Huckleberry Finn's itchiness, I was scratching my own itchy neck. Coincidenception.
HA ha ha ha, some of us Yanks react the same way to the store called BJ's! Some friends refer to a particular hill with a BJ's on it as "BJ Mountain"...
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I have to laugh at the irony of this video being censored and deemed to be age restricted. Though once America goes full on Christofascist and they start implementing this into UA-cam as well it will be the true dark timeline.
I mean they recently have banned true stories about two male Penguins that raised an egg and chick, any references to real life Sea Horses because the male ones raise their young and carry the egg sacks, Maus, the book which was about the Holocaust because it....showed people about the Holocaust (yes that's right Atlanta), all depictions of Black slavery, having to change the decimation of the Native population and the trail of tears as they were enjoying being integrated into "American society", any reference to Black history and Martin Luthor King and this is only very recent ones.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I fucking LOVE you, Simon!!! I Because smoker joint with you one day
Skill share = next raid
A revision by the publisher is not a book banning. 🤦🏻♂️
I had all the Where's Wally books as a kid. I immediately knew what the issue was going to be as soon as Simon mentioned it. In Australia no-one gave a shit about the topless woman on the beach. Our parents just looked at us like we were immature when we pointed it out, and that was it. We had more controversy around depiction of guns than nudity in children's media.
Definitely complete opposite in the US, and prob great reason for all the social issues we have
Bare arms before bear skin
as it should be!
In America we show murdered people on t.v. but nipples? That's going too far.
ye, americans would faint if they would watch a european ad break that feature any hygine product and it's not that the People there are even sexualized
You're lucky. There are so many puritanical idiots in the US, it's ridiculous.
I greatly appreciate how BB seems to be shifting back to the OG BB vibes the past few weeks. Thank you team Trinity BB, keep up the excellent work!
Seeing the words „banned“ and „books“ in one sentence as a german gives you an instant ick
i think russians not germans. nsdap ran germany for 12 years, russia has always been a book burnin' intellectual desert.
The only appropriate useage of
"Hans bring ze flammenwerfer"
- signed, a german
cheer up, im in ireland and back in the 80`s our council thought it would be a good idea to build a crematorium in a townland called ovens! i kid you not. thank goodness the locals objected and it was moved
@@jessgunn6639yeah our“mishap“ was a little bigger
It was basically a huge „Uppsala“
You mean burned?
10:24 i love how simons brain now stumbles when it sees a word with "eff" at the start its like he was waiting for "effortlessly" to pop up but it was "effectively"
Sometimes being from the USA makes me cringe 🤦🏼♀️ Some of the sh**…. If parents would just have a little investment into what their own children are doing at school, they could make their own personal judgment and decided what they feel is right for their own family, instead they choose to force their own beliefs upon everyone with no options. I would absolutely allow my sons to read Huckleberry Finn, but I would also explain to them the language of the time and how we have grown as a human race to see how wrong & disrespectful (at minimum) it is. It really is that simple. Learning is about seeing how we can grow and better our humanity, for others, and ourselves, by seeing the mistakes made out of ignorance in the past.
I so thoroughly appreciate unhinged Simon. Also unhinged Sam edits.
As an anime fan, fan service is dumb af 95% of the time. And fanservice involving uncomfortably young girls is the absolute worst. It sucks that some shows cater to a specific subset of the fan base that makes the rest of us look bad. Thankfully there's a ton of good shows and manga that don't do that shit.
Thankfully, more and more animes are getting away from it
As an extreme example, Qwaser no Stigmata would be about 1000% better if there was less obsession with breastfeeding. It's a legitimately good shonen action series revolving around people with the ability to control an element (as in the periodic table of elements), but they refuel their powers by...suckling women's breasts. Leading to an uncomfortable amount of time spent doing so during action scenes.
I am heavily anti-censorship, but it's a question of quality, not censorship when it comes to many cases of anime fan service. Do we really need to spend so many frames on painstakingly focusing on fake jiggle physics of boobs?
Honestly i feel you 👍
I just stay away from it. Young girl, dont care not real. Wierd but I just start way from it
It bugs me to live in a country that boasts "freedom of a speech" and the like then bans certain books in schools as unfit for young minds even though their grandparents and great grandparents read these same books as children.
“If’YOU don’t like aMERica then you’can GIIIIT ooouuuttttt”.
I mean I’m Canadian, but it’s true 🤷🏻♂️ lol
Seems like you've completely missed the point, you're totally free to say whatever they (whoever is getting upset) like!
Florida is a shit show
Freedom of speech and topics unsuitable for children are not mutually exclusive. In fact nothing about removing books from schools is inherently against Freedom of speech since nobody is prohibited to gather and voice that information - its just not a topic in school. Now when you prohibit those books to be sold, being digitalized or burn them, THATS against Freedom of Speech.
Their (great-)grandparents have also most likely smoked since the age of 14, so thats they have done it is not a good reason either.
The real problem is how they go about the removing of those book in schools:
With a diffrent book but from the bronze age and morals straight from the 1950s puritans.
Thats the real threat here, not that school may or may not decide against a certain kind of literature.
Florida doing that full blown now. Freedom my ass
The whole point of Huck Finn is how ridiculous racism and slavery was. It is a very pointed critique, where Huck treats Jim as a father figure who should be respected, and Tom Sawyer, who is more "cultured," treats him like a slave. The N word was used as it reflected the times. If we understand that and approach the book that way, we see it as the scathing commentary it actually is.
Criticizing Huck Fin for this IMHO is like Criticizing American History X because Norton's character uses racist language and commits race based murder before his redemption. AHX is a scathing attack on racism and the never ending cycle of racial violence, and it would not be the same without that part.
Careful, sounds like you wanna teach little johnny crt!! Now it will for sure be banned lol!
Having a problem with Anne's diary because of privacy: good reason
Having a problem with it because you want to erase every trace of gay people: bad reason.
Dunno what you're talking about. It was arguably a treatise on clitoral simulation...
I think they're smoken the crack again.
@@StfuFFSWTF are you even talking about? 😊
@@vic5015 that's the main criticism. She had entire chapters describing her fascination with her vajine.
@@StfuFFS I know! It’s not like many people have THOSE!
One of my favourite stories is about Dr Johnson when 2 "high born" ladies came to him and congratulated him on not including any rude words in his dictionary, his response was to congratulate them on looking them up
5 minutes after video goes live: Instantly age restricted. Poor Simon's monetization gone in less than 10 minutes.
Ah, a quick example of American Puritanism in action.
@@Caterfree10 Your reply gets better and better the longer the video goes on
@@XXMatt0040XX TRULY TBH. It’s distressing being someone who wants the purity culture here to end and seeing various forms of it such as the obvious here in the video to not so obvious like the moral panic over drag shows. It’s exhausting tbh.
@@Caterfree10 Im just baffeled by the fact how a secular country can have such a massive religious influence.
Several reiging partys in europe have "Christian" ("Christ democrats" more often than not) in their name and to my knowledge non of them use religious arguments.
The reasoning is they want to keep "Christian morals" (not THOSE morals) which are way better described as "We want to keep the Code Civil (by Napoleon), which the catholic and protestant church have used to rebrand themself as morally good and caring"
I mean, age groups as a thing for books was more a marketing strategy that started during the 20th century and wasn’t that much of a thing in the 1800s.
Modifying books is a touchy thing for me. I’d rather just have ones like Huck Finn be taught in schools with proper context. Alternatively, forwards before the text explaining the context as age appropriate as possible is also a good compromise. I mean, we have similar warnings and such in front of old offensive Looney Tunes and also Gone With The Wind. Don’t know why it’s not done more often in books where it’s arguably easier to add.
Agreed. Kids are smarter than most of us give them credit for, they'll figure it out if we provide them the necessary information.
Adults, on the other hand, they kinda dumb sometimes LOL
Heard somewhere that Anna Sewell wrote Black Beauty to convince adult carters & such to treat their horses more kindly. If that's true, it definitely didn't work, lol
Yeah I don't like censorship but I do agree that if a book or other media has some offensive content it should have some sort of warning beforehand.
It’s a lot easier to edit text than film
@@Alexander59059 I mean, sure, but by that token, it’s also easier to have a warning and some contextualization as needed at the front of a book, too. My point was, we already have some examples of film giving warnings, and it seems like the option that would ruffle the least amount of feathers imo.
Simon: I'm going to avoid that minefield....
Also Simon: Immediately cannonballs into center of minefield...
Even in the 1995 edition of Anne Frank's Diary one passage was left out until the person involved in an early "exploration" attempt was deceased. It starts "Once, out of friendship...." Gotta give her credit for the gutsy move even if it didn't work out.
In Florida And Tango Makes Three is banned. It an adorable story of two boy penguins who hatched an egg together. De result is a girl penguin Tango. It’s the most idiotic ban I can imagine.
brain blaze drinking challenge: take a shot every time Simon assumes that something in the US isn’t batshit insane because it wouldn’t make sense, only to find out two lines later that the US really is Like That
"Real boobies are a thing."
Simon Whistler - March 2023
The greatest mind of his generation.
This will be chiselled on his tombstone.
and they start to grow on you!
HOW DARE HE LIKES 3D DISGUSTING BOOBS
@@mho... this made me laugh unreasonable hard
speaking straight fax
The greatest scandal with Where's Waldo is that I never got to look in the book. My classmates kept taking the damn book from the school library and my parents wouldn't buy the book for me
My English classes have read several books with slurs (the hate you give, to kill a mockingbird, monster, etc) and my teachers just say hey don’t say that word and we just skip over it or say n word or something and focus on the actual story. We also do that in history like when learning about South Africa my teacher showed us offensive words used on government documents to show how bad it was and told us not the say or write them
Same with my classes, tho The Hate U Give wasn’t published while I was still at school (kinda jealous y’all got to read it there tbh!). Instead, one that we had was Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, which has a particular sequence where a slur is used (and then subsequently punished by the protagonist and it was GREAT), but the usage of the slur by itself with no regard to the context around it, including the punishment, has lead to book bans. And probably also that one chapter where the protag says he masturbates, but I feel like the slur gets more air time.
That is the way to do it. With younger kids, I say let's skip the word. But once you are old enough to understand why he used that word, the point he was making using it, you need to have the word there. When talking about things like slavery and racism we can not sugarcoat that. And not to make people feel bad about being white, but so that we never do it again.
The image of someone reading Huckleberry Finn and thinking “this is definitely racist” is just hilarious
Huck definitely loved Jim, yet he called him Ni**er Jim. That's why it's repeated so many times in the book.
it must be, it has people of different skin colors interact afterall!
That is what you get when you mindlessly censor certain words without any consideration for intent or context.
@@Riwillion the context considered is that by making people not use it you take away a weapon. You can convey the rascism against black people without teaching people the actual slurs used. And all you need to use it as a slur is to know it. And maybe one day there will be a generation that does not know it as a slur and either wont use it as a slur or not at all. But as long as it is remembered as a slur it will stay one. This is the try of disarming the word. Is it perfect? No. But calling it mindless is just refusing to consider context.
liberal Americans in a nutshell
1:35 - Mid roll ads
2:30 - Chapter 1 - Where's waldo ?
9:25 - Chapter 2 - Adventures of huckleberry finn
16:45 - Chapter 3 - The merriam webster dictionnary
21:50 - Chapter 4 - The diary of a young girl
You're doing God's work, buddy.
A true hero
The part about sweating had me laughing so hard. In the summer when I was with my Grandmother and I would tell her how hot is was and I was sweating (I lived in Dallas TX) my Grandmother would say, with her sweet South Carolina accent (where she was from), "Linda horses sweat, men perspire and women glow". I always told her I was a horse!
lol. good one.
I like the Hipster Huckleberry Finn. It reminds me of a version of Kafka's Metamorphosis where each entry of the word cockroach was replaced with "CAT" 😻
I dunno. It kinda robs the scare of waking up as a turk.
@@FortuneZer0 LOL
I'm sorry, I'd love to reply, but due to the fact that my school district banned the dictionary I can't understand a f***ing thing you said.🙃🦔
@@meemurthelemur4811 That's nothing. We banned the entire English language.🤔
@@perrydowd9285 trust me, we can tell...
I worked part time at BJ's Wholesale Club in high school. It's basically the same thing as Costco. All of us employees heard the joke every single time we mentioned where we worked.
One of my dad's coworkers is nicknamed BJ. Cuz his name is Björn and for some reason he rarely uses it. :)
A hospital I used to work at had had a Waldo cutout that a worker would hide in a different place every day. I saw him in various spots of the new building next door but my grandma said they’ve been hiding him daily for years for the kids.
Was this at a construction site at the next building over? I think I have read about a similar story if this is not the same place.
Timely material. There's a certain party in America banning several thousand books.
Man I love getting a video notification from Brain Blaze during a crap day at work
Lots love from Canada Simon!
I'm Australian, I often went home and said,
"I'm going to fuck around at..."
And they'd say,
"OK son, fuck off then."🤷♂️
This does not surprise me in the least. I, on the other hand didn't even say the word fuck in front of my mother until I was in my 30s.🤣
@@meemurthelemur4811 How did she react? 😮
@@perrydowd9285 mind you, it wasn't directed towards her, I was just really mad about something. But she turned to me with this shocked, pissed off look that said she was about to pop me one in the mouth until she suddenly realized that I wasn't 10yrs old anymore. Beyond that she really didn't say anything. But.... to this day I will *never* say it in front of my grandmother! 94 years old and she would still pop me on the mouth!🤣
@@meemurthelemur4811 My grandma called me a dirty little bugger when she heard me swear. We've never considered bugger anything more than a very mild substitute for really bad swear words like the F & C bombs. Sod was preferable too. It's odd because her generation were frighteningly paranoid in their homophobia.
@@perrydowd9285 my grandmother always called me an ishkabibble.😹
Ann Franks' Diary being banned in Alabama was a surprise to me. I was in school in and after 1983 and distinctly remember having to read it.
"Age restricted video (based on community guidelines)"
There's a certain irony here...
To be fair, Anne Frank did write (and edit) a lot of her diaries with the express intent of having it published at some point, as she wanted to be a writer.
Yeah. If u listen to the end, he makes that exact point.
So all you've done is highlight your inability to think about what you're hearing. 🤷♂️
Things Simon has conflated in this video:
1) Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
2) Little Women and Pretty Woman.
On certain self-publishing websites, authors have begun putting disclaimers in that they don't endorse the actions and opinions of the villains in their stories. They still get bad reviews hen the antagonists say things people don't like...
There are a plethora of dumb reviews on Amazon US making those exact complaints. Idiots.
Yes Simon, that's exactly how it's supposed to work. It's simply a disservice to everyone involved to pretend reality didn't happen the way it did. That most certainly prompts history to repeat. Unfortunately, like you said people are awful.
So many clips this episode to take out of context for future blazes. Looking forward to it.
Lol. I love watching Simon freak over the possibility of getting cancelled. 😂
Peak chaos, Simon….love how the Southern accent somehow morphs into a West Country accent. Now going to watch the Blackadder 3rd ep where Dr Johnson leaves his newly-written dictionary with Regent and they accidentally burn it. 😂
It’s never inappropriate to make fun of Alabama
I've never seen Simon so unhinged and cracking jokes whenever he could and honestly i'm loving it
Best video in a while! Great to get a Danny script, especially one that sends Simon off on so many "totally appropriate" tangents lol. The writers should start competing to see who can cause the most tangent >.>
All right!!! An age restricted Blaze. Well done Tangent Boy! LOL!!! Cheers
Simon swears as a kid. His parents "Dont swear" Me swears as a kid...my mom "WATCH YOUR
D A M N MOUTH!"
You know I'm from Alabama and I always wondered why we never read Anne Frank in school. I had to pick it up on my own after an English teacher recommended it. I always thought it odd she didn't just teach it herself
I live in Australia so... I'm pretty used to things being censored or banned here. Things are improving, but it really has been a bit of a nanny state, particularly with new media like videogames.
I still find that a bit strange, Australia seems to me like it’d be the last place to have strict censorship.
@@Alexander59059 I know right? I'm probably extra-sensitive about it because I play games, and the number of times they've banned or delayed a game meant for adults, specifically not intended for children, because it had something they thought was innappropriate for 12 year olds in it, really frustrating.
Heck, just about every South Park game has a sequence removed if sold here, Left 4 Dead 2 has most of the gore stripped out, that kind of thing.
Stop voting in 'progressive' governments then.
@@Whitewingdevil German here, can relate.
Games like Wolfenstein were not exactly illegal (not the WW2 setting (COD is fine), not the violence etc), the imagery in it was. Hence why those games either never released or were heavily censored. But that gladly changed since Video Games are since 2015 officially regarded as works of art in front of the law (like books and movies) which specifically allow the useage of all those symbols (always have since 1949!).
Now we are at the weird stage where the country doesnt give a flying fck anymore, but the entire gaming industry was conditioned for 25 years to specifically accomodate for the german market and havent exactly caught on yet that this changed loooool
My "favorite" form of video game censorship came in 2014, the very last year where i was a legal gray zone to use the symbols in video games: South Park The Stick of Truth.
In a form of protest they absolutely halfarsed the cover ups and changed lines from the Nazi Zombies to mock these regulations.....
I mean the law change was already on the way, but i appreaciate the fact that South Park made a statement regardless
@@Whitewingdevil To be fair in Australia (have often looked on from home in NZ) it's mostly just been games. I don't think your movie censorship is anything worse than the average really...
There is a school named Bob Jones High School in our town. They have a bunch of flags in front of it with the letters BJ on them and the parents ride around with stickers on their cars that say things like BJ Football and such. Still blows my mind that nobody has brought up the meaning of that.
Simon exclaimed "I don't understand, America! I don't understand!" and I immediately got deja'vu.
I found the more notable thing about huckleberry fin was the main moral conflict for huck was that he was doing wrong by helping a slave escape rather than the wrongs of slavery he even comes to the conclusion that he is just a low life for helping Jim but questions why a upright boy like Tom sawyer would help a runaway slave and the entire conclusion of the story is that Tom only helped cause he was actually a freeman and huck and Jim just didn't know it yet
Another UA-camr I like actually discussed this. Saying that he felt that this was the first true American novel as it the books before were still written in European morals and viewpoints but Huckleberry Fin has a main character that chooses what he wants to do, even if it means being wrong and going to hell cause it is what he sees as the right thing to do.
As an American I don't understand either. We all say one thing and do another and no one knows why we do it or how to fix it.
I understand it completely. Lazy parents who also think their Little Bobby and Susie can do no wrong and are sweet little angels, but yet the same parents only want to have anything to do with Bobby and Susie before and after school. About 1/2 of them will also use tv to babysit their kids.
I remember reading Anne Frank in middle school and having a double take at how she talks about being fascinated with a statue of a nude woman.
Public library deciding on which book to include in their collection and which not to.... it's their f* job to allocate their budjet.
This is who they think they are.
If you disagree with their decision, donate the book they refuse to buy to the library.
Suggestion: The Girl Scout who set up shop near a marijuana dispensary to sell Girl Scout cookies.
Best blaze of the year so far! Fascinating tangent, Simon
Yep!! Wally was a British creation , made by the British artis Martin Handford. It was originally created as an advertising gimmick and Wally came out of that.
There are several LGBTQ+ authors I have heard in interviews who honestly don't mind the idiots banning books that much. The Streisand Effect is VERY real!
I am happy to ascribe to the S. E. where books are concerned. So much good stuff gets banned.
I mean, I still find it’s not great bc libraries are resources for folks who can’t buy an infinite number of books. Even as good a job as I have, I can’t afford all the books I find myself wanting to read, so the library is still a resource I use. So banning books from any given library will thus remove it from the hands of people who may need it most, ya know?
Well, I personally laughed, actually out loud, at the dictionary joke.
4:57 breasts literally evolved there to feed babies and small children, so I totally don’t care if my kids saw that! Honestly.
Of course we can find them sexy, beautiful, etc. but breasts aren’t nudity in the same way genitals are, because they are not inherently sexual. The same way your hand or tongue can be used very sexually, but they are acceptable in public because they aren’t inherently sexual all the time!
The worldwide hunt for "The Diary Of A Young Boy" by Simon Whistler, age thirteen begins today!
Lol simon going on a tangent about why he prefers real boobs to anime ones 😂
Passionate rants like that are really the heart and soul of brain blaze, so pure hahahahaha
Correction: the whole episode is just what i can only call going “full whistler” lol absolutely spectacular to see it in the wild
I remember in a MASH episode Hawkeye said the dictionary was his favorite book because it had all the other books included. Of course meant as a joke. Lol
I recall that episode too. Damn I'm old.
@@christophermerlot3366 Me too. Lol
My rule on my 12 year old son swearing is this: you can use the word if you know what it means. The word can't be used to hurt or belittle anyone. There are certain places and people you don't cuss around. This works well for us.
Fully grown adults defending fanservice of underage girls will always be the biggest red flag and Simon is right to say it’s weird.
The book itself, and Mark Twain's views on slavery are quite well known, he was friends with several major abolishnist figures, and in the book itself, the useage of the word, is actually meant as a counter-culture reference to the term itself, there's some great pieces and letters of his that have talked about this.
We have a school librarian here in the states (rural south) that has really stood up to the public school system against book banning. She receives death threats. Her family has been threatened. It’s crazy and terrifying. She speaks across the United States but has to have security. She has written a book That Librarian. It’s about her experiences and the way that the school system has treated her. She’s incredible.
Factboi’s done it!!!
This episode is the perfect mash-up of OGBB & the new format!
Cannot wait for more!
The irony of this video getting age restricted is just *chef's kiss*.
I read Huck Finn three times in my youth starting when I was about ten. It was my favorite book for years. No one needed to tell me that the n word should not be used - even in the 70s. Maybe because the civil rights movement and MLK Jr assassination was so fresh in my memory.
I lived in St Louis near the Mississippi River and enjoyed it initially for that reason. When I read it for English in high school I found it wasn’t just a fun book about adventure, friendship, and racism. We delved deeply into the meanings of the river etc.
it’s been about 40 years since I read it last. I probably need to read it one more time.
The dictionary bit reminded me of my 5th grade teacher, Mr. Perks, who whenever someone would ask how to spell a word, he'd respond by spelling, "Dictionary".
lmao if someone had yelled "squirrel", I think you'd have leaped up and spun around shouting "where? where?" you look (and sound) just a sneetch over-caffeinated please don't ever change
About seeing boobs in entertainment that is not pornography based. Sometimes its nice to see boobs without expecting or searching explicitly for it
Never stop the tangents!!! It’s one of the reasons I enjoy these
Well done with the ground news footage on topic!
When UA-cam pops up a "this video may be considered inappropriate. Do you wish to continue?" Oh, you know it's going to be good.
While there are plenty of things in society today that piss me off, micro-brained people wanting to ban books send me totally off the rails. I'm definitely a bibliophile, and have been so since I learned to read. If you want to censor what your child reads, that's your prerogative. But to attempt to censor what my child reads is unacceptable. And most kids, if told not to do something, are definitely going to do it anyway.
They have started to censor ROALD DHAL books ffs!! What a load of crap! There is nothing not suitable for kids in them, but these days they are "too scary" for the new generation 🤷♂🤷♂
I don’t think the editing team at penguin random house is run by 12 year olds
@@greatstationsyt why the need to censor them? I was good enough for me as a kid, what’s changed? A child is still a child
@@williebauld1007While I agree to not censor books, this is a shit argument. "Why take the lead out the pipes? It was good enough for me as a kid, so why not them?" 🙄
@@RHCole taking lead out of pipes is health hazard, what’s “too scary” in a Roald Dahl book, that will give a child nightmares? Absolutely nothing, nothing was scary whatsoever in ANY of the books, I read them all, they sparked my love of reading
@@williebauld1007 I don’t think any book should be censored. I just also think the people responsible are, you know, middle aged businesspeople rather than “kids these days.”
Now I want an adult Where's Wally 😂
Yeah they can call it Where's Willy 🤣
@@darthtac 😂😂😂 I'd 100% buy that
Good, good...let the tangents flow through you
Imagine being cancelled and chalking it up to a case of the Mondays
Danget Simon, if you keep making the ads under a minute, I'm going to have to actually watch them. Thanks for making them more palatable!
When we read Ann Frank in our Christian school, we had to read around that part out loud so the teach could make sure we all skipped it, knowing it wouldn't be on the test. She somehow forgot I read chapters ahead in every book we were assigned lol. TOTALLY WHAT MADE ME BISEXUAL 😆
Regarding the revision of books and the usage of the n-word, I think it would be less of a problem if the US would actually teach history like we do it here in Germany for example. We have original texts, audio, pictures and as log as they are still alive, survivors lectures. We visit concentration camps and it’s not unusual to have students cry in class. It’s uncomfortable and hard to stomach but it’s necessary to drill it into the next generations heads to hopefully prevent it from ever happening again. Let children be upset about it. That’s exactly the reaction a feeling human being should have seeing those pictures/books etc. Also it’s the equivalent of Highschool curriculum (16-19yo) so we’re not traumatising 11 yo.
Unlike Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn is not really at all a children’s book. I guess as they are two childhood friends that that misconception was inevitable, but that is part of Samuel Clemens genius. Even though it is not really a companion piece, the compare and contrast of the subject matter it immensely different. That said Huckleberry Finn is easily one of my top 10 favorite books and was a mindblowingly subversive and effective texts of its time.
Its funny that even when simon does a southern accent. He does what is closest to a gentrified southern accent. In which he still sounds as the brits would say posh
As an American I don't understand either. People in this country like to talk about freedom but it seems the people who talk about it the most are the first to try and ban things. It's like they don't know what freedom means, or maybe they know they don't believe in freedom but use the word anyway. It really wouldn't surprise me, I've found that American culture does not value honesty, and the more towards the wings (both sides) people are the less honesty is valued.
Nietzsche said Huckleberry Finn was the first serious American novel that actually dealt with the contradictions of America's foundations.
Re "no young boy would ever say no to side-boob" - I'd just like to acknowledge that young boys who grow up to be gay or ace might and that's ok. They tend to be much more open-minded about this type of thing as adults than straight religious men, but we all change our minds about a few things as we grow up.
12:28 Simon steps into minefield.
This book banning and erasing words is ridiculous. History isn’t supposed to be comfortable. How can you learn from mistakes of the past if the future ppl won’t know what they are because it’s literally being erased
Almost as bad as removal of monuments and statues. You know, the things built to remind people of what happened.
@@davidmcgill1000 yes. Totally agree
@@davidmcgill1000 i think the monuments and statues is contextual. I think many need to be renovated to remove reverence to people who caused so much harm, but instead shows the awful impact they had
Many are still here statues.
I think instead they should be relocated to museums as an educational tool that had context behind it
I spent most of middle school time in “in school suspension”. We were able to either do our class work or write definitions from the dictionary. Naturally, I chose to write the definitions from the dictionary. I believe I chose wisely.
So, every one is going on about having these books in school libraries, but what I want to know is, why the outrage when my school library carried Lolita? The librarian didn't even bat an eye when I checked it out in middle school.
Simon saying "holocaust seems like a good idea" is totally not going to be used out of context by Sam sometime in the near future.
As you were talking about how much of a coincidence it was your neck was itchy while reading about Huckleberry Finn's itchiness, I was scratching my own itchy neck. Coincidenception.
3:40 I love your editor
HA ha ha ha, some of us Yanks react the same way to the store called BJ's! Some friends refer to a particular hill with a BJ's on it as "BJ Mountain"...
In Finland Waldo is Vallu
Last time I was this early my Mrs walked out.
lol i guess youtube is making their stance known since this is already age restricted.
I think I had the where's waldo that had the topless woman in it when I was a kid. I vaguely remember that.
Surprised that John Green's book, Looking For Alaska, isn't on here.