Re: Censorship of books in libraries

On 4/9/2024 6:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 9, 2024 at 2:47:31 PM PDT, "moviePig" <never@nothere.com> wrote:
 

On 4/9/2024 4:55 PM, Rhino wrote:

  On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 16:38:49 -0400
  moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
 

  On 4/9/2024 2:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  On Apr 9, 2024 at 11:27:13 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman""
  <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

  Is the left or the right winning the race to the bottom on
  censorship?
>
  Once again, I make the distinction between curriculum and books in
  school libraries. The former might be subject to complaints of
  inappropriateness by parents as it's mandatory. But reading books
  in school libraries is optional so leave book selection to
  profession librarians and not parents.
>
  That's not the law in Missouri. Librarians can be subject to fines
  and imprisonment for sexually explicit material on bookshelves.
>
  A graphic novel adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale was withdrawn
  due to one panel depicting a rape. The high school library decided
  it was in violation of the law and withdrew it.
>
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https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-libraries-lawsuits-fines-prison-0914fa6cbb2a99b540cbbd28a38179b4
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  Looks like the right is winning. What books are censored on the
  left?

>
  I've posted an article at least three times in the last month
  detailing a whole raft of conservative books censored by the Left.
  I can't be bothered to go look it up again for a fourth re-post.

>
  I'm not looking it up, either, but iirc it was the instance of a
  liberal bookstore that promoted itself as carrying books of all
  persuasions, then caved to the censorious demands of clientele.  At
  the very least, the left-leaning store voiced briefly the virtues of
  free speech ...which heresy a right-leaning store would've strangled
  at birth.
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>

  Bullshit!!! Flagrant, unadulterated BULLSHIT!
    Those of us on the right have a LOT more respect for free speech than
  most of those on the left. We aren't the ones that are bending over
  backwards to suppress free speech like the recent Hate Speech law in
  Scotland that J. K. Rowling has so bravely challenged or the Online
  Harms Bill that Trudeau is trying to inflict on us in this country.

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 Oh, goody! A leftist media outlet is going to give me another lecture on how
"it's different when we do it".

Btw, I notice you found it necessary to delete the short excerpt from the article.  Speaking of 'banning' and such...