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I don't think changing their minds is a requirement. They are allowed to not like something, but they shouldn't be able to ban it.
by nancyminusone 1y ago
I don't think changing their minds is a requirement. They are allowed to not like something, but they shouldn't be able to ban it.
- SilverElfin 1y agoThey aren’t banning anything. You can still freely buy any of those books. They’re just changing what content public libraries spend money on. Not really much different from states deciding school curriculum.
- kashunstva 1y ago> You can still freely buy any of those books. And if you can’t afford to buy them, then what? Public libraries exist to serve a public good and are not just quaint anachronistic equivalents of amazon.com
- layer8 1y agoYou have to change their minds about what legitimates a ban, and about these specific things they don’t like not having the necessary legitimation. And that’s not an easy change, it needs to be grounded emotionally.
- ranger207 1y agoWell, it's both. You need to ban book bans so that you can have the conversation in the first place, but you also need to change people's mind so that book bans never come up in the first place. It's a guardrail, and ideally we're not leaning on the guardrail