Re: Books Banned in Utah.

On Fri, 9 Aug 2024, Paul S Person wrote:

On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 22:17:01 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2024, Paul S Person wrote:
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 10:38:24 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Wed, 7 Aug 2024, Scott Lurndal wrote:
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ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:

In article <v90pgc$3clah$1@dont-email.me>, Titus G  <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

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.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vQc_7uakPh4eRXrq0iVq-L2g-BwcnRWyfc7E0QOdrThoUEtPHQaDvJM4JwNFXV-HZQok4L-fDh_P9jt/pubhtml?pli=1

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Once again: BS.
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Utah has decided those books

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What right does any state have to do that?
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That is either a very trivial question or a very interesting
philosophical/ideological question!

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And I suspect it has long been litigated and resolved.

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True... but thing can chance. Just look at the abortion question. Wasn't
that litigated and resolved, only to be "un-solved"?
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In the 50s, I was restricted to the Kiddie Section of the local
library. This is the same as banning the books in the other section(s)
from the Kiddie Section. This sort of thing has a long history in the
USA.

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I don't have children, but if I had, I certainly wouldn't mind if
pornographic magazines were banned from the school library (if we're
talking year 1-9).
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I would mind however, if Mein Kampf, Maos red book or Das Kapital were
banned. I think those books are pure garbage, but at least it should be
possible for everyone to form his own conclusion, and Das Kapital is also
interesting from a history of philosophy point of view (which I personally
enjoy).

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Banned from the Kiddie Section? Or banned altogether?

From year 1-9. But Mao, Marx and Hitler, sure, go ahead. If a class 1-9 would voluntarily read any of those, I would take that as a positive sign and put the child in a class for specially gifted people. ;)

One of the criteria for being /in/ the Kiddie Section involves reading
level. A lot of books are not in the Kiddie Section because of it.
This, of course, depends on the age of the Kiddies for whom the
Section is designed.
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But the question is always: what are the criteria? Are they sensible
or are they ideological? Are the books banned banned for objective
reasons or because somebody doesn't like them (and usually hasn't read
them, as they "just no" they are trash)?
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Yes! These are the interesting questions! =)

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That last "no" should, of course, have been "know". Typos ...
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