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> The choice of what to read must be left to the reader or, in the case of children, to parents. That choice does not belong to self-appointed book police." Do
by globalreset 4y ago
> The choice of what to read must be left to the reader or, in the case of children, to parents. That choice does not belong to self-appointed book police."
Does it belong to people selecting books in these school libraries even when it goes against the wishes of the parents?
While no one should be able to censor what book adults can read, the school libraries are tricky.
It was easier to have a consensus on what society at large was finding acceptable when the viewpoints in society converged. Now on one had we have parents who things taking their kids to drag shows is open-minded and surgical sex change in kids should be unconditionally supported, on the other we have various religious groups with their own dogmas.
What we expose the kids to obviously does have an influence (at least statistically) on what they will think in the future. So there's a big political power in controlling it.
So do we just limit everything to subset super-majority finds acceptable?
- stonogo 4y agoIn what period of time did this convergence of societal viewpoints occur? I think one would have to overlook significant subsets of society at any given time to make that claim.