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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
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Subject: Re: Censorship of books in libraries
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:38:05 -0400
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In article <uv8sua$1o05o$2@dont-email.me>, fredp1571@gmail.com wrote:
> 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:
>>>> "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 A graphic novel adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale was withdrawn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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.

None of which have happened.

Big Lie noted. Get back to us when you have a real argument to make.

--   
"Rhino, when do I say things I *can't* back up with citations of 
fact? Go ahead... go and find something I stated as fact that you 
don't think I can back up." 
        -- FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> 
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