Book banning

    • Snowfox wrote:

      notthatchrisevans wrote:

      There are some books banned, but I think in general, Austria understands it's historic past that includes, during the Nazi regime, public book burning of everything that was "different". Doesn't mean you can get every book at a school library, but books on homosexuality or, for example, WW2 are not banned because some might be offended by them or fear students will get upset. And not only my school, but also my brother's and the one my two best friends go to, have varied reading lists that students can choose from ever year. I had a love story of two boys on the English reading list this year (which was a book I chose to read).

      I never read the bible, but as far as I know, there is some gory stuff in there that definitely would upset younger kids. If that's the rule on banning books... But it's not. It's about banning books backwards thinking aholes have a problem with as they are stuck in the past. And that's wrong.
      What ever but you have to read quran and worship it as holy book because your communist/islamist government dictates so
      You high? We have a conservative/populist government. At least get some facts straight when you wanna gaslight :lol:

    • Book banning is the latest tactic in the "culture wars", in which books that feature LGBT characters or discuss slavery or racism in any way are being removed from schools.

      Banning books is a way of acknowledging that you cannot comprehend or adequately respond to ideas that run counter to your own. No one who has supported banning books ever ends up on the right side of history. It has been borne out time and again.

      All political sides should be against book banning. It's not a tenable position to claim that book banning is acceptable but only differ from the "other side" in which books you wish to ban.

    • I think banning books is a positive. Every time it gets in the news everyone goes out and looks at what the book is about.

      Like they say any publicity is good publicity

      Nothing should be banned (unless it's something bad that morally shouldn't be allowed) but if it helps people learn and talk about stuff they maybe wouldn't usually. The actual banning causes the thing they don't like to be a talking point to everyone. By not banning a book it would probably never get mentioned (and actually be what they're trying to do, hiding an idea or issue)

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    • Snowfox wrote:

      As far as I remember everyone in USA and UK has been super fan of banning books and speak that is not ultra left and voted accordingly.
      So why are people whining now when you get what you voted for?
      I'm not aware of any books the political left wanted banned. If you know of any examples please share them with the source

    • Pultost wrote:

      Snowfox wrote:

      As far as I remember everyone in USA and UK has been super fan of banning books and speak that is not ultra left and voted accordingly.
      So why are people whining now when you get what you voted for?
      I get the impression they're hellbent on getting certain books banned regardless who's on the top and which way they swing.
      Not exactly from what I read. It's mainly conservative Christians that are most involved with book banning attempts, for whatever reason. The same people that want build to walls, deny affordable medical care to disadvantaged families, cut welfare benefits and decry socialism, the same "socialism" that gives us fire departments, police departments, public works that maintain our local infrastructure, collect our trash and recycling, offer medical benefits to the elderly as well as social security monthly payments, that they PAID INTO their entire working life. As well as protection for your savings that are in the bank so the bank can't default like what happened during the great depression.

      Of course there are extremists on the left as well, we'll always have factions politically, something our second president John Adams feared because he foresaw 2 centuries ago some of what we see today.

      I think it's sad anyone would want any book banned, even Hitler's. Age appropriate sections in a library is fine, but books are sacred to me and my family. How do we learn anything without books? Television is geared to a demographic that puts eyes on what they show which generates advertising revenue. If you don't like their views you can watch something else. Same with books, if the subject isn't to your liking, don't read it. But a book doesn't need to be banned because some people don't like the subject. Video games are rated for ages, books can be also. Denying people the right to choose what they read, see or hear is just wrong in my opinion.

    • maseb wrote:

      Snowfox wrote:

      As far as I remember everyone in USA and UK has been super fan of banning books and speak that is not ultra left and voted accordingly.
      So why are people whining now when you get what you voted for?
      I'm not aware of any books the political left wanted banned. If you know of any examples please share them with the source
      I don't have a specific source at the moment, but I have encountered cases of progressives attempting to ban To Kill a Mockingbird because of its outdated racial views. Outdated as those perspectives may be, banning is misguided. The only way to combat book banning is to take a stance against all of it.

    • book banning is traditionally the best way to get people to read a book
      It’s still wrong and thought controlling

      obviously not allowing some stuff makes sense, pro racist/racism or misogynistic stuff without context
      But the usual books they ban because it might give kids ‘liberal’ views is just nuts

    • There are a ton of people here in Texas trying to have books removed from school libraries in various school districts around the state. I saw something on the news about someone in a suburb of Austin showing up with a list of something crazy like 800 books they wanted tossed out of the schools. Haven't seen anything about anyone trying to get things booted out of public municipal libraries though. All of that stuff here in Texas is primarily driven by the right wing because the GOP is the dominant party here in Texas. It could be a totally different situation elsewhere in the US. Like somebody said earlier in the thread, age-appropriateness is definitely an issue but it doesn't seem like it would be too hard to set something up that lets parents keep track of what their kids are taking out of the library in schools that don't have it already. That seems like a good way to balance the rights of parents to control what their kids are seeing and the rights of people of different viewpoints to have the book they want available.