Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 18:34:16 -0400
Mime-Version: 1.0
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Subject: Re: Censorship of books in libraries
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
References: <uv41a1$c8a8$3@dont-email.me> <HcKcnZlAQL_HEYj7nZ2dnZfqnPYAAAAA@giganews.com> <17c4b72567149412$90$3553870$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com> <20240409165532.00005caa@example.com> <17c4bae516f719f9$46079$3331670$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com> <Cwadna_QWr2eIIj7nZ2dnZfqn_QAAAAA@giganews.com>
Content-Language: en-US
From: moviePig <never@nothere.com>
In-Reply-To: <Cwadna_QWr2eIIj7nZ2dnZfqn_QAAAAA@giganews.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Lines: 64
Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.hasname.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail
Nntp-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:34:16 +0000
X-Received-Bytes: 3696
Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com
X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com
Message-Id: <17c4bd72414fa3fc$3$170192$48d50260@news.newsdemon.com>
Bytes: 4108

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   A graphic novel adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale was withdrawn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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>
>> How conservative and liberal book bans differ amid rise in ...
>> ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
>> https://abcnews.go.com › story
> 
> 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...