Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022
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Re: Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022
#2So definitely a high paralleled 20 years ago.
Re: Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022
#3> The choice of what to read must be left to the reader or, in the case of children, to parents. That choice does not belong to self-appointed book police."
Does it belong to people selecting books in these school libraries even when it goes against the wishes of the parents?
While no one should be able to censor what book adults can read, the school libraries are tricky.
It was easier to have a consensus on what society at large was finding acceptable when the viewpoints in society converged. Now on one had we have parents who things taking their kids to drag shows is open-minded and surgical sex change in kids should be unconditionally supported, on the other we have various religious groups with their own dogmas.
What we expose the kids to obviously does have an influence (at least statistically) on what they will think in the future. So there's a big political power in controlling it.
So do we just limit everything to subset super-majority finds acceptable?
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#4Missing is all the bans for classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird" which enraged history revisionists with older-language. This article tries to frame the data that the majority of book cancellations were targeting LBGTQ books but forgets to mention the banning of classic literature.
Re: Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022
#5Missing is all the bans for classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird" which enraged history revisionists with older-language. This article tries to frame the data that the majority of book cancellations were targeting LBGTQ books but forgets to mention the banning of classic literature.
It's because the majority of book cancellations are targeting LGBTQ books or books talking about issues minorities have to deal with. To Kill a Mockingbird is one book out of hundreds being banned.
https://www.deseret.com/2022/3/16/22979747/book-bans-are-the...
> At first blush, the reports could seem sensational, a narrative driven by political campaigns that could be decided in schools. But the growth in efforts to suppress books is real. Last November, the American Library Association warned of “widespread efforts to censor books in U.S. schools and libraries,” while The New York Times reported that the association received “330 reports of book challenges” — attempts to remove books from library shelves and classroom curricula — last fall. For comparison, the association reported about 240 book challenges in the entire year of 2017.
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> Beyond school board meetings, where parents, students or teachers can voice their concerns, the movement to restrict material has spread to state legislatures. One Texas Republican, Matt Krause, recently released a list of 850 books that “might make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of their race or sex.” Krause asked schools to investigate whether they possessed copies.
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#6> Each attempt to ban a book by one of these groups represents a direct attack on every person's constitutionally protected right to freely choose what books to read and what ideas to explore.
I don't think school library book banning is the biggest threat to free speech today; it's mass internet censorship.
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#7Missing is all the bans for classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird" which enraged history revisionists with older-language. This article tries to frame the data that the majority of book cancellations were targeting LBGTQ books but forgets to mention the banning of classic literature.
restricting children's access to sexually suggestive books in tax payer funded schools seems appropriate. the media/press is trying to malign one side into being against free speech and pro-censorship, which is so ironic ... more culture war BS all around
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#8> The choice of what to read must be left to the reader or, in the case of children, to parents. That choice does not belong to self-appointed book police." Does it belong to people selecting books in these school libraries even when it goes against the wishes of the parents? While no one should be able to censor what book adults can read, the school libraries are tricky. It was easier to have a consensus on what soc…
In what period of time did this convergence of societal viewpoints occur? I think one would have to overlook significant subsets of society at any given time to make that claim.
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#9> Each attempt to ban a book by one of these groups represents a direct attack on every person's constitutionally protected right to freely choose what books to read and what ideas to explore. I don't think school library book banning is the biggest threat to free speech today; it's mass internet censorship.
Exactly, I'm more concerned by the books you can't buy on Amazon than the ones you can't check out in a limited space children's library.
Re: Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022
#10Missing is all the bans for classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird" which enraged history revisionists with older-language. This article tries to frame the data that the majority of book cancellations were targeting LBGTQ books but forgets to mention the banning of classic literature.
restricting children's access to sexually suggestive books in tax payer funded schools seems appropriate. the media/press is trying to malign one side into being against free speech and pro-censorship, which is so ironic ... more culture war BS all around
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