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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Censorship of books in libraries
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:43:22 -0400
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On 4/9/24 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 A graphic novel adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale was withdrawn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.
> 
> 

Oh, for fuck's sake.  Banning books, banning drag shows, banning rainbow 
flags, banning the words "climate change", Don't Say Gay bill, trying to 
force Disney because they didn't like what they said.

Nobody believes you.

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