• UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I admire the students that are setting up book clubs for banned books. They are recognizing that they are being given a list of what they should read.

  • Setarkus.LW@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m assuming that getting books banned from libraries requires them to be there in the first place (in most cases at least), so any arguments using examples age rating issues should rather focus on why those books got into a school library in the first place.
    Surely the ones responsible don’t just blindly choose some books to fill the library without at least making sure they’re not as wildly inappropriate as some people like to say.

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    10 months ago

    This is referring to a few books that were banned from school libraries a while ago (not sure what they were doing there in the first place).

    Anyway, one of the books that were banned showed males sucking each other off. That’s hardly something you would be eager to show a kid unless you are a groomer. A common theme between these books in general was that they were pornographic. The fact that there was, and still is an outrage from the LGBT community till this day because of the bans is telling.

    Also, do make note of the people here comparing the bans to Nazi Germany. Yeah, not showing kids gay porn is like being a Nazi, apparently. Disgusting.

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      10 months ago

      You’re parent clickbait. “Honey, that’s one of the twelve things THEY don’t want you to know about!”

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          iirc it wasn’t exactly banned in germany. Iirc the state of bavaria held the copyright and sued everyone who sold the book without their consent, while not printing any copies themselves.