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> Okay, I'll bite: why were they banned? The flashpoint is usually sexually explicit passages or writing in popular new books. I haven’t thought enough to have
by 9x39 6mo ago
> Okay, I'll bite: why were they banned?
The flashpoint is usually sexually explicit passages or writing in popular new books. I haven’t thought enough to have an opinion whether libraries (and city vs public school library is unclear) should fight to protect literary depictions of blowjob or rimming or anal intercourse, particularly in an LGBT lens, but enough groups evidently decided they have, and here we are.
- ImPostingOnHN 6mo agoYeah, I'd say a political pressure group's personal preferences (sexual or otherwise) don't alone constitute a good reason to ban information from a public library. Really makes you wonder if the pressure groups behind these bans really understand the point of a library. To consume only information you like and agree with? To go read 10 different perspectives of something, but only if they are all identical to your current perspective? To minimize risk of mind expansion?
- 9x39 6mo agoHow far do you push ‘information’? As long as it’s written, fair game? Pictures? Web content? I don’t want the job, but it’s ripe for arguing.
- ImPostingOnHN 6mo agoIt's hard to see a good reason against whatever is legal to have there: Moonshining; every religion's religious book; the Anarchist Cookbook; a howto on adult nude modeling; hacking; Grey's Anatomy; Catcher in the Rye; etc. If public policy allows it, public libraries should allow it. If a subset of the public doesn't like that, they can change public policy to make the content illegal.