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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 A graphic novel adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale was withdrawn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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-libraries-lawsuits-fines-prison-0914fa6cbb2a99b540cbbd28a38179b4
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>>
> 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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