The only book they want people to have on their shelves is the Bible and they don’t want them opening it.
No kidding huh.
Btw this is why they call everything a slippery slope. Because that’s what they want to do. They slid right from banning books in libraries to banning books in stores. Pure projection.
But keep fighting … these websites and library apps are not safe. Don’t forget Z-library and even the Internet Archive lost a huge case which makes theri archiving/digitising of books illegal … They are attacking on all fronts. We can’t become complacent thinking we have options. Soon, we won’t.
That’s all well and good, but we shouldn’t get complacent about them trying to take books out of local places where access isn’t limited to people with computers/smartphones.
Parental rights start and stop within the household. I don’t get why we need to have such a wide ban in schools and libraries. If you don’t want your child to read something that’s fine. But don’t spoil the diversity of books and resources because you’re so narrow minded…
If they’re trying to protect children, these actions don’t make sense. So it’s possible these people are idiots. But I have trouble believing they’re simply idiots, because idiots don’t have a focused drive to act. They wouldn’t bother to do this.
So if they’re not idiots, then our first assumption is wrong. It’s not about protecting children.
It’s about hurting specific people. If you consider they’re just trying to hurt specific groups of people they don’t like, then all their actions become logical, and the focused drive to act is explained.
But I have trouble believing they’re simply idiots, because idiots don’t have a focused drive to act.
They’re useful idiots.
Just to add to the conversation and be clear, this is book they want banned from children.
"-the novel tells the tragic story of Pecola Breedlove, an African American girl from an abusive home. Eleven-year-old Pecola equates beauty and social acceptance with whiteness; she therefore longs to have “the bluest eye.” "
A book about racism, written in the 1970’s and set in the 1940’s. It examines how white people and black people’s lives were during those times and was inspired by the author’s friend who, according to the author, loathed being black and wanted to be white. That’s exactly why Arkansas wants it banned for children. They’re terrified of people remembering the truth of our history and knowing how people are still racist today.
This isn’t new, just more obviously in the open. Go to your local library or bookstore and try to find Lenin’s “State and Revolution.” I tried. It’s not in stock. You may find a couple of books critical of capitalism, but that’s it. Meanwhile, Fucker Carlton and D’nice D’Souza are everywhere. It’s sad.
My public library has it. Both in print and a rentable eBook. We actually analyzed the writings of Lenin when I was in (public) grad school, too.
Maybe the difference is that my state isn’t a conservative shithole?
Strange how you get used to the smell 👃. Then, someone like Stovetop comes along and reminds you that your neighbors probably would kill you if given the chance. It’s okay, there’s always Marxists.org.
Probably because nobody reads it at the bookstore. At the library though, that’s by design.
Libraries cannot keep a copy of every book in existence. Not even vast libraries like the British Library or the Library of Congress can attempt that. I would guess that, in the U.S., State and Revolution is not especially widely read, so keeping it on the shelves makes no more sense than the time my librarian wife showed me a weeded book called something like “Getting Along with Jewish Neighbors” from the 1950s. It’s well-meaning, it could teach ignorant people a lot, but no one in the 21st century is going to read it except as a curiosity.
For those that don’t know, most libraries also offer an interlibrary loan option where a book that’s not available at your location can be requested and mailed from anywhere in the country. The library pays for the postage. You may have to speak to a librarian to do so.
