During Banned Books Week, Readers Explore What It Means to Challenge Texts

Re:During Banned Books Week, Readers Explore What It Means t... by kiba on Thursday September 30, 2021 @04:50PM (#28711141)

These listed books are nonetheless targeted. Yes, they are basically books people want to read, but busybodies complain about these books, not the garbage fire of books that nobody will ever bother reading.

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Re:During Banned Books Week, Readers Explore What It Means t... by Amezarak on Thursday September 30, 2021 @04:58PM (#28711225)

There are plenty of busybodies running the school libraries ensuring books people would read never get bought and purging collections of books now deemed heretical.

There are plenty of busybodies lobbying bookstores to stop selling books.

These books don't, or rarely, make banned book lists. It's done quietly out and out of the public view. The books that get shilled as 'banned books' are all largely (not wholly) books agreeable to a particular class of people.

For example, a very popular children's author who passed away some time ago is completely banned from my library system for ideological reasons.

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Re:During Banned Books Week, Readers Explore What It Means t... by camjohnson26 on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:16PM (#28711415)

Yeah seems like this should have made the list. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2021/03/0...

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Re:During Banned Books Week, Readers Explore What It Means t... by mcphage on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:15PM (#28711399)

> For example, a very popular children's author who passed away some time ago is completely banned from my library system for ideological reasons.

Which author, and which library system?

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