Re: Books Banned in Utah.

On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 08:46:03 -0700, Paul S Person wrote:

On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 07:55:11 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
<mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
 

On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 09:38:20 +1200, Titus G wrote:
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Utah has banned 13 books, including Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
which basically claims that large corporations are not to be trusted
with science.
I do not know any of the other authors but Sarah J. Maas writes
Fantasy.
James Nichol will be delighted that women are being recognised with
twelve of the thirteen books being written by women.
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Is nobody simply curious as to why different books have different sets
of school boards banning them? And how many school districts are there
in Utah, anyway? How can we be sure that this isn't a publicity stunt
for Sarah J Maas?

 
Different school boards have different values. That's the problem with
"local values" -- they are /local/. Go over the ridge to the next school
district and the values may differ. Hence the endless attempts to
elevate /my/ local values to apply /universally/. Well, not mine
personally, of course; I am indicating the state of mind of the
individual(s) doing the banning.
 
I saw an article recently that claimed that most book banning efforts
were being done, country-wide, by at most 11 distinct people. I wonder
how many distinct people were responsible for the thousands of
voicemails/emails to election workers who had the gall to insist that
the vote count determined the winner -- one? two? three?.

Subsequently the New York Times ran a story that resolved my
puzzlement over the structure of the list. If at least three
school districts decide to ban a book, all school districts
in the state are required to remove it from their libraries.
I looked up the locations of each of the five districts
appearing in the list and they're all in small towns.
Fun fact: Utah spends the least of any state on its public
schools, on a per pupil basis.