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this wasn't very hard https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/local-libraries-begin-removal-of-controversial-dr-seuss-books/ https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/l

• millzlane 6y ago
  Noone asked them to remove them. The library decided on their own after the publisher decided to remove them. From it's catalog.
  • dabbledash 6y ago
    So, the librarians in these cases are so averse to controversial material that they remove it without even being asked?
    • scottious 6y ago
      I don't see what the problem is here? If I open a book store I'm sure as hell not going to sell Mien Kampf or white supremacist manifestos. Am I being unreasonable by standing by my values and not stocking these books? I don't think they should be banned but I also don't think I should be required to sell them. I'm sure there are plenty of Christian book stores / libraries out there who are unwilling to stock The God Delusion. And why would a LGBTQ bookstore sell LGBTQ hate propaganda? I guess this could be taken to an extreme. Maybe a library in a highly conservative town chooses to not stock anything that has a hint of left-wing ideology, and maybe they have internet filters to block any left-wing web sites, and they only put front-and-center highly right-wing books. I don't know, it's complicated.
      • Chris2048 6y ago
        Why would a christian bakery sell gay wedding cakes? The truth is, there is already plenty interference is private business, but it (seems) to not be evenly applied. If I request a library stock (or borrow) a book that I'd like to read, I don't consider political aesthetics to be a valid reason to refuse. > I'm sure there are plenty of Christian book stores / libraries out there who are unwilling to stock The God Delusion Do you mean a normal bookstore owned by Christians, or a specialist bookstore that only stocks christian literature? If the store could refuse any non-christian material (e.g. a cookbook) as well as Dawkins books, I'm not sure if that's censorship - a greengrocer can also refuse to stock The God Delusion on similarly reasonable grounds.
        • scottious 6y ago
          > Why would a christian bakery sell gay wedding cakes? I think we've decided as a society that sexual orientation is a protected group. You cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation. But I think you can still discriminate based on views of what is racist and what is not? If a white guy walks into black-owned barber shop and throws around racial slurs at the barbers, can the owners of that barber shop refuse him service and kick him out? I certainly hope so... but am I being hypocritical? Honestly I'm out of my depth here. I have opinions but I don't think my opinions are necessarily as informed as I want them to be.
          • Chris2048 6y ago
            > If a white guy walks into black-owned barber shop.. What kind of example is this? Does it matter what the respective races are? How is this equivalent to the wedding-cake example? As for "sexual orientation is a protected group"; religion is also protected.
      • dabbledash 6y ago
        This specific thread is about public libraries. I definitely don’t want public librarians to see their job as an avenue for expressing their views. But for the rest of it, I get what you’re saying. I definitely want to live in a world where there are Christian booksellers selling their curated collections, and left wing revolutionary bookstores selling theirs. That only adds to diversity of expression. On the other hand, if I started to see large numbers of previously neutral purveyors of books saying they wouldn’t carry anything that offends the church I’d criticize that. I don’t want to live under a new puritanism, even if everybody forwarding it is entirely within their rights to do so.
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