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The line is drawn by what you think the underlying motive is or would be. If you asked the BPL to host your book our shared assumption is that they would decli
by ALittleLight 5y ago
The line is drawn by what you think the underlying motive is or would be. If you asked the BPL to host your book our shared assumption is that they would decline because they don't have infinite space and there are a large number of books out there. If their reasoning was that they thought your content was offensive or would inspire bad things in your audience then we would consider them to be "banning" your book.
- paxys 5y agoSo then how do you know which one of these it was when you apply your test?
- ALittleLight 5y agoI don't know. I just guess. It's not a completely random guess. Context informs the guess. For example, all the examples they give, and the books I saw when I scrolled through the underlying list their article is based on, seem to be about and banned for having gay sex, sexual abuse of children, sex with children, and racism. If they were equally interested in all banned books I think it would be an odd coincidence for all of their examples to be in that narrow range of topics. There are no books about how to run drug labs, commit genocide, or burn heretics among their examples? Odd...
- caslon 5y agoMost of the latter... aren't banned? Like, at all. They aren't so popular, but you can definitely find books on chemical synthesis in libraries.