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It's grossly misleading for the authors to talk about "banned books" without saying what they mean by "banned". In common parlance, "banned" would mean somethin
by gweinberg 3y ago
It's grossly misleading for the authors to talk about "banned books" without saying what they mean by "banned". In common parlance, "banned" would mean something like "forbidden to be sold". I think in most discussions of "banned" books, they mean something like "books which have faced objections from parents when teachers assigned them to children."
- GloomyBoots 3y agoExactly. Amazon’s internal list of banned books gives a much more accurate impression of what ideas are suppressed in America than what gets taken off a school library shelf. A recent well-known example being When Harry Became Sally.
- micromacrofoot 3y agothese are schools, which are state institutions, banning books from curriculum — if that's not censorship I don't know what is... what's the point of this pedantry?