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Sadly, the word "ban" has been used all too inapropriatley lately. And this website doesn't seem to help as nowhere did I see exactly what they meant by banned
by gmiller123456 3y ago
Sadly, the word "ban" has been used all too inapropriatley lately. And this website doesn't seem to help as nowhere did I see exactly what they meant by banned, who banned them, or exactly what the ban entails.
- femiagbabiaka 3y agoBanning, in this case, means removal from libraries. Sometimes it is by state order, sometimes it is via independent action taken by the school district (although that is usually also in an attempt to adhere with state board of education guidelines). The linked data source cited for this article provides ban classifications for each and every book they list as banned.
- gmiller123456 3y agoWhere did you see that? I saw where they explicitly state that is not what they mean: >Namely, they are not and have not been about the physical removal of a book from a shelf.
- femiagbabiaka 3y agoIt's in the linked dataset: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRKM3peCW-NDebCq8KJ1UqdB5JahauG1lYzaqmiU89N9HuJs1fxWuVhf8Ed4hU9lNMLZu9AItmkcmyY/pub?output=xlsx https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRKM3peCW-ND... They're not being literal in that comment, they're alluding to the fact that such broad bans, which even DeSantis has called overreach in some cases, are moreso about aligning to an ideological narrative than actually caring about which books are in school libraries. But the books are also being removed, from school libraries and from classroom libraries.
- hotpotamus 3y agoIt is fascinating to watch the progress from "don't be hysterical, no one is going to ban books" to "we're offended that you're calling it a ban".
- pokerface_86 3y ago[flagged]