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Re:Librarians Are Dangerous by protocolture on Monday April 21, 2025 @07:11PM (#43757511)
I go online, into book spaces, and its american parents kvetching that there might be naughty bits in the novels they buy for their 17 year olds. Its american schools trying to limit content. Whereas my english teachers couldnt wait to introduce these subjects into our reading. "The Club" would instantly kill a seppo.

Its american "booktokers" trying to subdivide genre labels to filter out sex and sexuality.

Its americans writing angry reviews that characters had sex in a novel.

Its americans complaining that I would let my kid read any book, where socially no one gives a shit around me. (Be that LGBT content, or old fascist propaganda. Theres always a seppo waiting to tell you that you are """grooming""" a child with information)

Its americans creating sanitised versions of classic books """suitable""" for children

Really theres so much seppo moral panic shit these days that I have a very hard time taking anyone seriously who tries to both side this.

>ignoring literally thousands of years of censorship

I dont care about thousands of years of censorship, I simply don't want to import these stupid ideas from the land of the terminally braindead who currently champion them in some form or another.

Re:Librarians Are Dangerous by protocolture on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @06:38PM (#43766956)
"US supreme court leans toward religious parents who object to elementary school LGBT storybooks

The US supreme court appeared inclined to rule in favor of parents in Maryland seeking to keep their elementary school children out of certain classes when storybooks with LGBT characters are read, Reuters reports."