3 ms·
We have, broadly speaking, two groups deciding which books to make available to children using taxpayer money - the voters/parents/elected officials, and unelec
by like_any_other 10mo ago
We have, broadly speaking, two groups deciding which books to make available to children using taxpayer money - the voters/parents/elected officials, and unelected librarians. If one of those groups decides to withhold a book from schoolchildren, it's fine and not a ban. But if another does the same, then it's a ban.
Or am I completely wrong, and Jared Taylor's "White Identity" is available in every school library, explaining its absence from "banned" book lists?
- drcongo 10mo agoYou are wilfully wrong.
- like_any_other 10mo agoSo Jared Taylor's "White Identity" is available in most school libraries?
- IAmBroom 10mo agoNo, your strawman has nothing to do with the article's content.
- like_any_other 10mo agoOf course it does - the article makes a big deal about books banned [1] by parents/politicians, but turns a blind eye to books banned by librarians themselves. I refuse that framing. [1] 'Banned' meaning not using taxpayer money to make them available to schoolchildren.
- drcongo 10mo agoMake your own list then, instead of having toddler conniptions about this one.