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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Books Banned in Utah.
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 08:46:03 -0700
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On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 07:55:11 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
<mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 09:38:20 +1200, Titus G 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.
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/e/
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>Is nobody simply curious as to why different books have different=20
>sets of school boards banning them? And how many school districts
>are there in Utah, anyway? How can we be sure that this isn't a =
publicity=20
>stunt for Sarah J Maas?

Different school boards have different values. That's the problem with
"local values" -- they are /local/. Go over the ridge to the next
school district and the values may differ. Hence the endless attempts
to elevate /my/ local values to apply /universally/. Well, not mine
personally, of course; I am indicating the state of mind of the
individual(s) doing the banning.

I saw an article recently that claimed that most book banning efforts
were being done, country-wide, by at most 11 distinct people. I wonder
how many distinct people were responsible for the thousands of
voicemails/emails to election workers who had the gall to insist that
the vote count determined the winner -- one? two? three?.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"