I ran across this just now, at CNN.
A hit single by convicted pedophile Gary Glitter is to be removed from coursework for a British examination after complaints by child abuse campaigners.
British children’s charity Kidscape said Monday the inclusion of “I’m The Leader Of The Gang” in a list of “related listening” for GCSE music coursework aimed at high school-aged students was inappropriate.
The glam rocker’s name was spotted on briefing notes sent to teenagers by a school teacher who told The Sun newspaper he thought it was “completely inappropriate.”
How many signers of the American Declaration of Independence were slave owners?
Is slave ownership on about the same level of badness as the crimes for which Gary Glitter was tried, convicted and sentenced? I suspect that it is, in the eyes of many. Yet we don’t discount those who worked to gain American freedom.
Leave the music in. It did nothing wrong; Glitter did.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:17 am
Well put.
November 19th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
For something like that, I agree. What I object to is the use of any of his music in a public forum. Why?? Because he still collects royalties. That’s right. Every time even a snippit of one of his songs is played, he gets paid. ANd I don’t like to support people like him….
teri