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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 A graphic novel adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale was withdrawn due to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.