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Re:Brooklyn Public Library offers access to banned ebooks to... by chiefalchemist on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:06PM (#31137984)
Not to get off topic but what seems to be lost in the HN discussion is that this is a coastal public library offering books to teens that are banned in their local school.

It's not about all banned books.

There's also the dynamic of a (left leaning?) coastal entity overriding right-leaning communities. This might play well in Brookyln, but it's also powerful political fodder for the more conservative areas being overruled.

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Re:Brooklyn Public Library offers access to banned ebooks to... by magicalist on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:13PM (#31138045)
> this is a coastal public library offering books to teens that are banned in their local school

Is "coastal" a signifier like "latte drinking"? Texas and Florida also have very lengthy and populated coastlines.

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Re:Brooklyn Public Library offers access to banned ebooks to... by chiefalchemist on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:40PM (#31138870)
Coastal is a common euphemism for East Coast and California. That is, known Left hot spots that the Right finds "high horse-y".
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Re:Brooklyn Public Library offers access to banned ebooks to... by throwaway981572 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @10:50PM (#31140865)
In what sense is BPL “over-riding” these communities? I thought they decided not to carry these books in their school libraries, not that students are not allowed to read them even outside of school.
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Re:Brooklyn Public Library offers access to banned ebooks to... by chiefalchemist on Sunday April 24, 2022 @05:49AM (#31142569)
In what sense? The fact that you can't see it from the others' POV is one of key reasons there's so much divisiveness.

I'm not critiquing what you believe. Unfortunately, it's incomplete. You're focused on what the library is "saying" and haven't considered what's being heard elsewhere. You can continue to disagree. But blind dismissal isn't helping.

And herein lies the problem.

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