Re: Books Banned in Utah.

On 8/10/2024 11:40 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

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.

There are about 3 million publications in the US each year. Libraries
have neither unlimited budgets, nor unlimited shelf space.
There *has* to be a selection process for what gets included.
The current list of books banned from Utah school libraries may be
a ludicrous example of adult fears, but to say no books can be excluded
for any reason is a non-starter. *Most* have to be excluded, else every
school library would be as large as the Library of Congress.
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