That’s a very dishonest way of viewing things. Every society on earth has book bans if you go that far down the chain. While this is a concerning trend because parents shouldn’t have their child’s school remove books, it’s also disingenuous to pretend that is on the same level as a federal or state book ban. Actually, I don’t there’s even a county level or a municipal ban on any book anywhere in the country. We’re literally talking about community level institutions, and even it’s a very tiny number of them in the country and they are all facing significant push back nationwide. That is not at all the same as Saudi Arabia having a national ban on George Orwell’s Animal Farm or Iran having a national ban on The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie where it’s illegal to seek out, read, or posses these books and doing so may result in actual legal punishments.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
That’s a very dishonest way of viewing things. Every society on earth has book bans if you go that far down the chain. While this is a concerning trend because parents shouldn’t have their child’s school remove books, it’s also disingenuous to pretend that is on the same level as a federal or state book ban. Actually, I don’t there’s even a county level or a municipal ban on any book anywhere in the country. We’re literally talking about community level institutions, and even it’s a very tiny number of them in the country and they are all facing significant push back nationwide. That is not at all the same as Saudi Arabia having a national ban on George Orwell’s Animal Farm or Iran having a national ban on The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie where it’s illegal to seek out, read, or posses these books and doing so may result in actual legal punishments.