Re: Books Banned in Utah.

On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 18:27:49 -0000 (UTC), Daniel Goldsmith
<dgold@dgold.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-08-07, 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.

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Thanks for posting that message.
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The responses are why I, and others, no longer participate here.
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If I want to read far-right bigotry, I'll open a Heinlein.

Too bad it is misleading.

They banned 13 books /from the school libraries/, not from Utah. I
consider the decision idiotic pandering to semi-fascist ultra-Maga
weirdos, BTW. Decisions based on content rather than, say, reading
level, are inherently dubious.

Most of the discussion here has been about the right to do so. Which
in Seattle, bluest of the blue, has existed since at least the 1950s.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"