More Books Than Ever Targeted For Bans (sherwood.news) 250
An anonymous reader writes: More books were called to be banned in 2023 across US schools and libraries than any other year on record, according to a new report from the American Library Association (ALA). Building on a surge that started in 2021, some 4,240 unique book titles were challenged last year -- a 65% increase from 2022, and the highest figure documented in over 20 years of tracking.
Although the number of affected titles has grown dramatically, as groups increasingly target multiple books at once, overall censorship demands dropped slightly, down 2% to 1,247. Literature concerning race and gender was particularly contested, with autobiographical graphic novel Gender Queer named the most challenged library book of the year.
Although the number of affected titles has grown dramatically, as groups increasingly target multiple books at once, overall censorship demands dropped slightly, down 2% to 1,247. Literature concerning race and gender was particularly contested, with autobiographical graphic novel Gender Queer named the most challenged library book of the year.
Bible? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Ever read the Christian Bible?
Nah, but I've seen the movie. Was just okay.
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You saw the censored for airplane viewing version.
Re:Bible? (Score:5, Interesting)
Utah district bans Bible in elementary and middle schools 'due to vulgarity or violence' [apnews.com].
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I mean, imagine, a book about a guy who kills almost all humans at some point, gets people to sleep with their daughters, rewards people for sending their daughters out to get raped, commits genocide on more than one occasion and eventually sends out his son to die a torturous death, and as we can see pointlessly because the reason he had his son tortured and killed didn't even come to fruition. And don't tell me he couldn't have known, that guy is supposedly omniscient.
And that's supposedly the good guy in
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People throughout the ages created gods in their own image. You'll find that the gods of any people match what they feel like doing.
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People throughout the ages created gods in their own image. You'll find that the gods of any people match what they feel like doing.
Of course. But Christianity is big on the "created in God's image" thing, while describing God as one of the most childish, temperamental creatures in all of existence.
I'm a fan of the Greek and Roman gods. At least those gods knew how to party. Christian God just sorta sits on his cloud and pouts in between temper tantrums.
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The god of the Christian bible is mostly a little brat in the terrible twos. And Christians do what bad parents do: Worship the spoiled little terror instead of giving it the sound spanking it needs to straighten up and become a productive member of society.
Re: Bible? (Score:2)
"I don't think they have graphic sex and violence"
The closest thing I remember was where they talk about a woman lusting for guys with donkey dicks who come like horses... Or was it horse dicks and come like donkeys? I forget.
On the other hand the Bible does contain apologies for genocide, read your Numbers.
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Donkey dicks who come like horses.
Ezekial has the bestiality, Song of Songs the smooth eroticism and Genesis the "hey, lets get dad drunk, rape him and get preggers! Twice!" The bible really does have something for everyone.
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It's missing the tentacle porn.
Unless it's in the Appendix to the Apocrypha, which I haven't read yet.
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It's missing the tentacle porn.
Unless it's in the Appendix to the Apocrypha, which I haven't read yet.
It's in the fine print. Mary was raped by an angel, and according to biblical lore, angels are basically tentacles and eyeballs. Immaculate conception my left big toe.
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donkey dicks who come like horses... Or was it horse dicks and come like donkeys? I forget.
MmmmHmmm . . . "forget."
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I no biblical scholar, bit I don't remember much but the way of apologies.
Little thought is given to the fate of the Canaanites afterwards.
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That being said, I don't think they have graphic sex and violence
The Song of Solomon is erotic poetry. Both more intense and more fulfilling than whatever torture-porn videos you're talking about.
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A 6 year old can read that, and not notice the double and triple entendre.
I'm a middle aged adult and even I don't get it. There is such a thing as using too many metaphors. [quotes.net]
Be Kind. (Score:5, Insightful)
They're doing the very best with the brains they've been given.
Orson Scott Card (Score:3)
In an introduction to 'Ender's Game' he reports that the book was being banned simply because it used the 'N' word - despite the fact that it was in an appropriate and non-racist way.
Now he's getting cancelled for his rejection of gay relationships.
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Sounds like an author who has just been consistently behind-the-times.
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Or alternatively: one who is not blown by fashion. As the rapid delegitimation of trans activists for abusing children by not doing enough talking before putting them on life changing drugs shows, sometimes the latest fashion is deeply flawed
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Perhaps instead of waging a culture war with the entire LGBTQ+ community by banning books and calling us various negative epithets, it would be more productive to engage on the single issue of the appropriateness of prescribing hormone blockers to teenagers? Upon that single issue, you might find that many of us aren't actually your adversary.
But the truth is, it's never really about just that one single issue. It's ultimately a desire to see all the "alphabet people" back in the closet, and the latest Li
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I'm genuinely curious as to what you mean by "cancelled" given the still got a deal with a publisher and still publishing, and you can find his books in many book shops and libraries., and last I checked, still streaming on Netflix.
It really feels l seems that "cancelled" means "getting criticism" and calls to end cancelling and cancel culture are therefore calls to prevent people voicing their opinions.
What are schools for? (Score:2, Insightful)
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I don't know, wood shop is pretty risque
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leave things like religion and sexuality to the parents, some topics the schools need to stay out of
Except that schools do teach human sexuality. When I went to middle school, it was part of what was referred to as "health class". It required a parental permission form (otherwise you'd be assigned alternate work) and the curriculum was obviously created in some alternate universe where LGBTQ+ people didn't exist.
Re: What are schools for? (Score:2, Flamebait)
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Heterosexual sex isn't always done for reproduction, and if you're teaching students about condoms you've gone firmly into the sex as a pleasurable act realm. At that point you're just being bigoted by omitting that two men and two women can do that, too.
But perhaps you're one of those "abstinence only" folks who truly believes that if you tell raging-hormone teenagers just to keep it in their pants, they'll obey without question. Good luck with that approach.
Re: What are schools for? (Score:5, Informative)
But more on point; what do you think contributes to who you are more, your genitals, or your brain? There's sex differences in the brain, and transgender people are more like the sex they identify with than the sex that matches their genitals.
You're reducing the differences between males and females to a mere anatomical and hormonal difference, being deliberately obtuse about men and women being different in other ways too. Since our mind makes us who we are, it's little surprise that when there's a conflict there, modifying hormones and anatomy work a lot better than being bullied back into the closet by ignorant bigots like you who have zero grasp of the science but want to overrule doctors on medical decisions about gender.
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I don't hate trans, I just refuse to play along with their sexual fetish
Well, the book bans and educational changes made in Florida aren't limited just to trans subjects. They've kicked the entire LGBTQ+ topic from the chat, likely as some perceived retaliation for going too far. Basically, dialing the clock back to the early 90s when I went to school, and kind of wondered why the hell sex ed never mentioned homosexuality.
I think any curriculum that leads to an adolescent to be confused about their sexuality is a bad one, and that applies to both straight and LGBTQ+ students.
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It is not a biological fact.
There are all sorts of ways biology gets messy. Intersex, chromosomal duplication (like XXY), androgen insensitivity, Mosaic chimerism to name a few.
Your facts are wrong. Now I know you're not reasoning based on facts, but cherry picking facts to for your reasoning, so I won't convince you of anything. But given that being born make our female alone is not a fact, I wonder which excuse you'll reach for next.
My favorite so far is those are rare, at if a condition being rare means
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You'd be surprised how common birth defects really are. What's special about this one? You said no man can ever become a woman and no woman can become a man. On a genetic level, that's correct. But should we force them to exist in a body that is not what they want it to be for them to have an at least acceptable life by adjusting it to get as close to what they consider a better version as possible?
I have fairly poor vision, I'm extremely near-sighted. My vision will never be perfect. No matter what pieces
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leave things like religion and sexuality to the parents
Thing is, those are the things parents are typically least qualified to teach. A parent teaching religion is call indoctrination because it will never, ever be balanced or complete. A parent teaching sexuality is likely to give such helpful advice as "don't do it", and "only do it with who want you to do it with, the way I want you to do it."
Parents shouldn't be relied on to teach topics where bias matters.
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You are generalizing to the extreme here. "Every parent on the planet, including all athiest and left leaning parents, when educating their child about religion, is automatically attempting indoctrination, and were explicitly trying to be as unbalanced as possible"
Also are parents "Likely" to give unhelpful advice about sexuality? This may shock you, but shitty parents are thankfully in the minority, the internet amplifies the crazies.
Your entire comment read's like it was targetted at a very specific perso
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Uh... sexuality is a pretty basic thing you need to know about in life. Things like safe sex, contraception, consent... these are fundamental to a healthy life. And parents don't always teach them properly.
Religion, I agree, should not be taught ins chools. Leave that nonsense to the parents, should they choose to indoctrinate their kids.
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Things like safe sex, contraception, consent... these are fundamental to a healthy life.
(emphasis mine)
I'm convinced the people who are opposed to sex ed being taught in schools are truly the ones who are trying to hook up with teenagers that weren't taught any better. I had enough sense at 13 to tell the online pedos to go jump in a piranha infested river, but I was mature and responsible for my age - by and large though, most adolescents aren't.
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Religion is fascinating and critical for understanding much of history, government and society. The problem is that religion classes usually just get a priest from the locally dominant cult to come and preach rather than teaching anything useful.
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Nonsense. You absolutely should teach religion, the same way you teach science or anything else. That *creates* defences. Do you think Andhrímnir waves a strip of bacon and imbues everybody with critical thinking skills when they turn 18 or something?
You should not teach that any particular religion is fact, any more than you should teach that anything else is fact. In the case of religion that's actually pretty hard to do though, provided you teach a decent selection of them.
PS: Andhrímnir is the
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If the books offend you, then you can always not read them.
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leave things like religion and sexuality to the parents, some topics the schools need to stay out of
Those topics are even more important to be in school, as parents will often massively misrepresent reality to children and often outright lie to their children. Personally, I do not know an act much more evil than indoctrinating children with religion or giving them unhealthy and damaging ideas about sexuality. Essentially mind-rape and should be punishable as such. Your children are not your property to do with as you please. You have no right to screw them, mind or body.
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Indoctrinating your offspring is a core basic tenet of every religion. It's basically the oldest form of the "pass this letter on or something bad will happen!" chain letter.
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Sure. Does not make it any less evil.
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evil
Insidious is more like it. The downside of forced indoctrination being hardcoded into nearly all religions is that when you're advocating for people to not indoctrinate their rug rats, you're by extension also expecting them not to follow part of their religion. That typically doesn't go over well.
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Indoctrinating children that cannot give informed consent? Plain, direct evil. I do agree that the religiously deranged think they cannot do evil. Well, they can. And it is time society leaves the dark ages and calls them out for it.
No that is not what schools are for (Score:2)
What's your describing is a vocational school designed to create little worker bees for corporations.
If short-term profits are your only goal then yeah have at it. The problem is is you're creating a generation of people that can only obey. People completely incapable of critical thinking and highly vulnerable to abuse and demagogues.
If you don't see the problem with that then you probably went to the kind of
Proud of my city's library system (Score:2)
Although I live in Canada, which is often derided as less friendly to freedom of expression than the United States, I am proud that my city's library removed precisely zero [www.cbc.ca] of the materials that were challenged.
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That is something to be proud of.
Obviously (Score:2)
That comes with a slow slide into totalitarianism.
Depends on whose ox is getting gored (Score:2)
Would you object to a school library stocking the likes of The Turner Diaries?
Yes?
Then get over yourself and this tendentious prattle about "banned books".
Some books (and The Turner Diaries is bodaciously one of them) should not be stocked in school libraries.
Banning Books != Not Buying Books (Score:2, Informative)
Everyone gets up in arms when they hear the words "banning books" when the reality is that graphically sexual and non-age appropriate books are being denied purchase in primary school libraries.
These are not the same things.
The library association dropped the list (Score:5, Informative)
There's three observations from this year's list.
First there are more banned books than there are requests to ban books. What that means is there's an organized effort to ban books. It's not just somebody's mom getting upset. It's an organization.
Second virtually all of them are not about stuff like war or death or torture. You can still find Muen Kamphf no problem. The top 10 are all about lgbtq+ love stories and most of the other books are about that too.
And finally it's not nearly as interesting to read the list anymore because well, it's all the same kind of books being banned by the same kind of people.
You can find the video if you want to see everything but the bottom line is this has nothing to do with protecting kids and everything to do with somebody enforcing their beliefs on your kids.
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First there are more banned books than there are requests to ban books. What that means is there's an organized effort to ban books. It's not just somebody's mom getting upset. It's an organization.
Gee, who do we know who is extremely wealthy and blames a school for supposedly turning his kid trans? Hmm. [today.com]
As they say, follow the money...
why bother (Score:2)
Why bother with banning books? Is much easier and cost effective to just burn them in the first place. /sarcasm
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Well, if public government schools should stay away from teaching faith and religion, with belief in mystical beings, I can agree to that. People can have their private lives and schools they pay to go to for that.
We just need to get the current religion and faith with belief in mystical beings out of the schools and that should fix it for everyone. Stop trying to call it science, it's not.
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No, because I don't believe in banning books
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Nice to see multiple respondents parroting the same talking points. Have you ever tried banning the Old Testament on the basis of it containing salacious material? If not, why?
Just ban the whole thing based on existing State laws. Christians are already cancelling [newsweek.com] it [christianpost.com] because of that socialist's teachings. Might as well do away with the whole thing.
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In other words, the head of a system that is by today's standard considered obsolete because we invented something better?
Yeah, I agree.
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It's been tried, and of course denied. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21... [cnn.com]
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We keep parroting the same talking points because they are STIL valid points. Humans have known the Earth is round since at least 200 BC. That hasn't stopped idiots in 2024 from thinking it's flat. So now YOU tell me, why do we have to keep parroting the same talking points? Maybe it's because we're hoping your IQs somehow finally tripled into the double digits with all the recent cheemtrails spraying and 5G.
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Toss it in the same bin. It's pretty much the same book.
Religions should consider themselves damn lucky that the Berne Convention didn't exist when they were invented. Else most of them would get DMCA'ed into oblivion.
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this is entirely Republicans (with the exception of some protestors that got the Christian Bible *briefly* banned in a few places).
This is very much a partisan issue.
No, this is a leftist issue. Even liberal Democrats are against putting pornographic materials in the kids library sections.
Leftists call this "banning books"
Re:By Republicans (Score:5, Informative)
Except thats not what we are talking about at all. Lets look at the breakdown of these bans. There will be books here that fit into multiple ones of these categories
41% LGBQT themes or major characters.
40% Minority/Black themes or major characters.
22% Sexual themes
21% Titles with themes of race or racim.
10% Titles with themes about rights or activism.
9% Biographies
4% Religious minorities.
Only 1 in 5 of those books have anything that could dubbed "pornography" although even thats a stretch because pornographic books where already banned, so these are books about sex education, a topic thats always been considered a proper theme for education. (We had sex ed in our school when I was there, 50 years ago, and my father says they had it when he was in school, 75 years ago).
And while the most commonly challenged books are usually about young folks coming to terms with being sexual or racial minorities, there are also a number of books that have long been part of the high-literature canon, things like To Kill a Mockingbird, Flowers for Algenon, Catch 22 and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Ironically, also on the list of frequently banned books is Farenheit 451 and Brave new world.
And dont think this just applies to school libraries. Lawmakers are trying to reinforce these bans by going after online sites that sell or lend them. Meaning even if you arent in these backwards-ass book-buner southern states, they are still coming after you and your kids right to read too.
Sources:
https://pen.org/report/banned-... [pen.org]
https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]
https://bannedbooks.library.cm... [cmu.edu]
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Except thats not what we are talking about at all. Lets look at the breakdown of these bans. There will be books here that fit into multiple ones of these categories
41% LGBQT themes or major characters.
40% Minority/Black themes or major characters.
22% Sexual themes
21% Titles with themes of race or racim.
10% Titles with themes about rights or activism.
9% Biographies
4% Religious minorities.
Only 1 in 5 of those books have anything that could dubbed "pornography" although even thats a stretch because pornographic books where already banned, so these are books about sex education, a topic thats always been considered a proper theme for education. (We had sex ed in our school when I was there, 50 years ago, and my father says they had it when he was in school, 75 years ago).
And while the most commonly challenged books are usually about young folks coming to terms with being sexual or racial minorities, there are also a number of books that have long been part of the high-literature canon, things like To Kill a Mockingbird, Flowers for Algenon, Catch 22 and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Ironically, also on the list of frequently banned books is Farenheit 451 and Brave new world.
And dont think this just applies to school libraries. Lawmakers are trying to reinforce these bans by going after online sites that sell or lend them. Meaning even if you arent in these backwards-ass book-buner southern states, they are still coming after you and your kids right to read too.
Sources:
https://pen.org/report/banned-... [pen.org]
https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]
https://bannedbooks.library.cm... [cmu.edu]
I agree some of the "challenges" are nutty. I just reject the term "banned" for materials that are readily available. Nobody says steak is banned because vegan restaurants don't offer it. Nobody says "Portuguese is banned" because a school doesn't offer it. Choices are always being made.
I would oppose government restrictions on publishers and sellers, and I really dislike how the dominant publishers can effectively ban some books and authors. But this article is about schools and libraries, not publish
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Even liberal Democrats are against putting pornographic materials in the kids library sections.
Yeah, when you're not being disingenuous about the definition of "kids" and "pornographic".
Adolescents aren't "kids". When I was 13, age appropriate resources for LGBTQ+ youth didn't exist. I satisfied my curiosity by going on an adults only dial-up BBS. That actually had the real hard core stuff. TBH, if I hadn't been mature and responsible for my age, I probably could've ended up getting myself in a lot of trouble co-mingling online with adults. That's the situation you force LGBTQ+ adolescents into,
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There are plenty of age-appropriate queer books, today, and those teens are still pretending to be adults on Grindr.
The books being banned is part of the same mentality that also leads to schools being an absolute disaster when it comes to teaching sex ed in an appropriate way for LGBTQ+ youth. Yes, some teenagers are still going to be teenagers and do entirely the wrong thing because they're largely hormone-driven rebellious idiots, but that's still no excuse not to provide age-appropriate education and resources. Hopefully, you get through to at least some of them that it's risky, stupid, and illegal to be hooking up
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That book about the penguin with two dads sure was scandalous!
Well, not everyone can afford to take a sexy penguin tour with William Shatner. [slashdot.org]
Disingenuous. (Score:5, Interesting)
Or just take rural kids who live 30 miles from a public library. Or poor city kids that are 5 miles of zero bike lanes and public transit away from the library.
School libraries are a critical resource for disadvantaged learners, and it's gross to see anyone here on
As for it being "nothing new", rape & murder aren't exactly new but I don't see anyone defending those. Then again I take it back, we've got right wingers calling on a ban for no fault divorce and saying we should be able to shoot anything that crosses our property line...
Re: Disingenuous. (Score:4, Insightful)
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People who have privilege frequently fail to notice others don't. Sad.
It's easy for me to forget that the reason I probably didn't off myself as a gay teenager in the early 90s is because I did come from a relatively well-off middle class family. When I was having a hard time fitting in with the real world, I had a PC and a bunch of electronic gizmos to distract me from how much interacting with my peers sucked.
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It's easy for me to forget that the reason I probably didn't off myself as a gay teenager in the early 90s is because I did come from a relatively well-off middle class family.
I was so deep in the closet I knew what I was getting for Christmas after next. Thanks, Portland in the 90s, your abstinence only sex education and pounding in the AIDS pandemic as instant death fucked up an entire generation.
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Thanks, Portland in the 90s, your abstinence only sex education and pounding in the AIDS pandemic as instant death fucked up an entire generation.
Yep, sex ed in Florida in the early 90s was "If you have sex, she's getting knocked up and you'll likely be eaten by an STD." I swear, if it wasn't for the fact I'd already figured out I liked guys by then, I'd have blamed that shit for turning me gay.
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I had a pretty good idea from the time I was 8 or 9 (and crushing hard on Kit Cloudkicker, who was only like 2 or 3 years older than I was at the time, and when middle-aged Kit was reintroduced in the DuckTales reboot as only 2 or 3 years older than I am again definitely gave me a fanboy moment). But I was in the closet to myself about being bi until I was like, 22, and I didn't come out until after I left Portland, Oregon for rural Oklahoma. And then not long after that, I moved to Tulsa, and pretty much
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I don't think people with privilege fail to notice all this though. I think they want it to be like this. They need somebody ben
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I figured out years ago that was a scam and that what matters is my absolute quality of life not my relative quality of life
Last time Americans did this en masse, the civil rights movement happened. And before that, the labor movement. Seems we're due for a repeat of both now.
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Children do not need a book to educate them on how to give blow jobs; their local Religious leader or Republican uncle can teach them much faster.
Horrifically this is not a joke (Score:4, Insightful)
Like I mentioned on another comment it's no coincidence that the same people who want to keep child marriage legal or out there banning books.
Actually no they won't (Score:2)
It's no coincidence that the same people pushing the ban books are the same people who refuse to ban child marriage...
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Which is it?
You're a lying asshole spewing propaganda and then framing a false dichotomy, or you've left Fox News on in the background so long you started believing the bullshit yourself.
Which is it?
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There are no banned books, Every single book listed is readily available.
So you're gonna offer to buy this book [barnesandnoble.com] for every underprivileged LGBTQ+ adolescent who might want to read it? Didn't think so.
It's a similar issue with statewide abortion bans. Yes, you can travel to another state if your finances allow. Perhaps we should be questioning why people with less money have to live under a different set of rules?
Re:There are no banned books. None. (Score:4, Informative)
Noise, noise, and more noise. Are you aware that the author of that book says it's not for kids? https://wpde.com/news/nation-w... [wpde.com]
Why would you buy such materials for someone else's little kids? There's a word for that, it rhymes with "rooming".
You should read your own links.
"I originally wrote it for my parents and then for older teens who were already asking these questions about themselves. I don't recommend this book for kids!"
This book wasn't in elementary schools, it's in high school libraries.
The right wing knows all about groomers. Here's a running tab. https://www.dailykos.com/stori... [dailykos.com]
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Noise, noise, and more noise. Are you aware that the author of that book says it's not for kids? https://wpde.com/news/nation-w... [wpde.com]
Why would you buy such materials for someone else's little kids? There's a word for that, it rhymes with "rooming".
You should read your own links.
"I originally wrote it for my parents and then for older teens who were already asking these questions about themselves. I don't recommend this book for kids!"
This book wasn't in elementary schools, it's in high school libraries.
The right wing knows all about groomers. Here's a running tab. https://www.dailykos.com/stori... [dailykos.com]
I'm aware of what I linked. Once you agree with the author that the book is for older teens and not for kids you are accepting that it is not suitable for all ages.
That is all this is about.
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I specifically wrote "adolescent". Try to keep up.
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I specifically wrote "adolescent". Try to keep up.
"adolescents" are kids by definition.
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"adolescents" are kids by definition.
The federal government disagrees. [ftc.gov]
Re:There are no banned books. None. (Score:4, Informative)
If the author says it's not suitable for kids, why would you believe librarians should be able to make it available to kids, even if the kids' parents object?
That is the issue, and really the only issue: (some) librarians want to control how you raise your children, and will go to extreme lengths to force you to let them.
Re:There are no banned books. None. (Score:4, Informative)
Just because they aren't forbidden in every context doesn't mean they aren't banned.
Is it not censorship when Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube removes content just because the government hasn't completely silenced that person? I'm betting you still think it is. Neither word has to be absolute to be the appropriate word.
I do agree it's sort of disingenuous though, the way we talk about "banned books" right now. Just a few years ago, there was tons of talk about how important it was that librarians have the freedom to decide what *isn't* in their libraries. It was all about keeping conspiracies and hate speech out, but that was never banning. Now I can barely even find those articles, the "banned books" noise on Google is just too much. And it wasn't even five years ago, but I feel like it's some Mandela Effect.
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Easier for the libraries to just remove all the books. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/f... [cbsnews.com]
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And don't believe a single word the ALA says about "book bans." The local city council where I live is setting up a committee of parents to review books in the city's public library that people complain about, to see if they're shelved in the right section. The moonbats have completely lost their shit over it, screaming "BOOK BAN!!!". (Note: They have also called our Latina mayor a white supremacist. Yes, they're that batshit crazy.) But the proposal would not be to remove them, just move them to age approp
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The only issue is if they are available in a particular school or public library, and if so, in which section.
Nope. Wrong. Books are being completely removed [apnews.com] from schools.
When an illustrated edition of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” was released in 2019, educators in Clayton, Missouri needed little debate before deciding to keep copies in high school libraries. The book is widely regarded as a classic work of dystopian literature about the oppression of women, and a graphic novel would help it reach teens who struggle with words alone.
But after Missouri legislators passed a law in 2022 subjecting librarians to fines and possible imprisonment for allowing sexually explicit materials on bookshelves, the suburban St. Louis district reconsidered the new Atwood edition, and withdrew it. . .
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Utah enacted legislation in March that empowers the state’s Attorney General to enforce a new system of challenging and removing “sensitive” books from school settings. The law also creates a panel to monitor compliance and violations.
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“Gender Queer” is another title no longer available to high schoolers in Clayton, where district officials recently turned their attention to Mike Curato’s graphic novel, “Flamer,” about a teenager who struggles with his sexual identity and how to fit in at Boy Scout camp. The American Library Association included “Flamer” on its list of 2023’s most challenged and/or banned books.
Brevard school board (Florida) removes two books [floridatoday.com] but keeps that lascivious Bible in place.
Kenosha Unified School District removed four books [msn.com] from school libraries.
Illustrated Anne Frank book removed from Floida school [nbcmiami.com] after "conservatives" whined.
75 books were removed [wtvr.com] from school libraries in Virginia.
14 books were removed [nbcwashington.com] from school lib
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There are no banned books, Every single book listed is readily available.
The only issue is if they are available in a particular school or public library, and if so, in which section. This is nothing new. Every single library since the beginning of libraries has made decisions as to which books and materials will be made available and to which library users.
This is so freaking stupid
No alt-right snowflakes have ever been cancelled because their unfiltered retarded fish brain speech is readily available. This only issue is if they are available on a particular social media service or site, and if so, in which section. This is nothing new. Every single digital forum since the beginning of the internet has made decisions as to which electronic mouth farts will be made available and to which users.
Hold my nuts while we pass legislation that tells them the decisions they need to make.
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In my city's public library system, anyone can request that the library purchase a particular book. AFAIK, these requests are pretty much always granted.
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In my city's public library system, anyone can request that the library purchase a particular book. AFAIK, these requests are pretty much always granted.
But someone has the discretion to approve or deny the request, and they also decide which section it belongs in.
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AFAIK, these requests are pretty much always granted.
That "AFAIK" is a phrase that leaves out a lot.
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It's interesting that your consider librarians, a group of oddballs on the whole with an almost pathological desire to spread knowledge without fear or favor to all who want it as "leftist" and their converse, which can only be those who wish to restrict as right wing.
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after they went mask off on Jan 6.
I think it's more accurate to say they switched masks. [wikipedia.org] The horns really helped sell the look, too.
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Unfortunately, as with many other terrorist organizations, they have a lot of useful idiots cheering for them.
Fun historical fact: Hitler was elected into office with about 36% of the votes for him. Since all other parties had less, this allowed him to form a minority government and that was his stepping stone to mass murder and starting World-War 2. Same as Trump, he got power by spreading hate and insane lies using his great charisma and ability to appeal to people with no fact-checking ability. He was a
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I live not too far from a part of town where when the high school lets out you see some of the "kids" driving Teslas. Those aren't the students affected by book bans. If any of them happen to be LGBTQ+ and desiring to read a book on such a subject, they'll just drive themselves to the local bookstore and pick up a copy.
The early 90s version of this was my parents buying me a rather decent PC for the time and letting me have my own dedicated phone line. It really doesn't suck too badly to be a privileged