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Subject: Re: Books Banned in Utah.
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 14:05:19 -0400
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On 8/10/2024 11:40 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 18:27:49 -0000 (UTC), Daniel Goldsmith
> <dgold@dgold.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-08-07, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> 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.
>>
>> Thanks for posting that message.
>>
>> The responses are why I, and others, no longer participate here.
>>
>> If I want to read far-right bigotry, I'll open a Heinlein.
> 
> Too bad it is misleading.
> 
> They banned 13 books /from the school libraries/, not from Utah. I
> consider the decision idiotic pandering to semi-fascist ultra-Maga
> weirdos, BTW. Decisions based on content rather than, say, reading
> level, are inherently dubious.
> 
> Most of the discussion here has been about the right to do so. Which
> in Seattle, bluest of the blue, has existed since at least the 1950s.

There are about 3 million publications in the US each year. Libraries
have neither unlimited budgets, nor unlimited shelf space.

There *has* to be a selection process for what gets included.

The current list of books banned from Utah school libraries may be
a ludicrous example of adult fears, but to say no books can be excluded
for any reason is a non-starter. *Most* have to be excluded, else every
school library would be as large as the Library of Congress.

pt