Post AaXWx8yZWDkndb3CDI by Cousin_Isobel@spinster.xyz
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(DIR) Post #AaXWx8yZWDkndb3CDI by Cousin_Isobel@spinster.xyz
2023-10-07T21:53:08.307409Z
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Librarians are so ridiculous. The books they are putting in the “banned books” display in our local library include ones that have simply been challenged by parents in school libraries, because they are inappropriate for children. A book can be great and still inappropriate for children. It’s the same with movies, TV shows, and everything else. Some are not for children.What the Hell is the official position of librarians? That all books should be offered to children in school libraries? No limit? 50 Shades of Grey and just everything?
(DIR) Post #AaXYwWZaV3GURQCGMC by LostInCalifornia@spinster.xyz
2023-10-07T22:15:26.053130Z
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@Cousin_Isobel They would have to admit that the books involved are not appropriate for children for them to admit that the bans aren’t bans and that would lead to trans genocide.
(DIR) Post #AaXeaaJOWARtOJXnO4 by Cousin_Isobel@spinster.xyz
2023-10-07T23:18:41.620647Z
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@LostInCalifornia Well, that is one category: propaganda about “gender identity.” To librarians defending this, I would ask, if no viewpoint is to be excluded (even one so harmful it tells children that they aren’t real boys or girls when they are), what about books that tell children to beat up younger kids, smoke, or join the Klan? Perhaps that would be going too far. How about a prominent display of books telling kids not to get vaccines, then? It’s supposed to be all views, right?The category I was thinking of, though, was of books that are simply sexually explicit. I noticed Me and Earl and the Dying Girl on the “banned books” display. Funnily enough, the display was in adult’s section, but that book has never, to my knowledge, been disputed as something adults should be allowed to read. A few parents in a few schools just didn’t think it was appropriate for children because it contains graphic descriptions of oral sex. I might have no problem with that for adults, or even as something older teens manage to get their hands on somehow, but is it so unreasonable for schools not to provide it?
(DIR) Post #AaXecjTxOSvMPaVboe by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-07T22:01:33.177533Z
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@Cousin_Isobel Good question. Librarians have now become expert at BAIT & SWITCH. Parents and others do not want children exposed to porn, so tell the public that the books they want banned are The Diary of Anne Frank, etc.I wish I could respect librarians, but my experience of them in recent years is that they left their brains in a Sandra Brown novel. Someone on TV was proudly referring to Maine's "public libraries," and I thought, "What public libraries? There is one library, 40+ miles away, in Bangor. All others charge money to get a card, and the privately owned lesbian library in my town flies a pride progress flag."
(DIR) Post #AaXg6Wd7dfxFUupd8C by LostInCalifornia@spinster.xyz
2023-10-07T23:35:40.502591Z
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@Cousin_Isobel 90% of all book “bans” are about inappropriate sexual material. If someone admits that the treatment of sex in a “nonqueer” book is of valid concern to parents, they have to admit that a pornified emphasis on Ann Frank’s adolescent fantasies, or the graphic depictions in Gender Queer are also subject to valid concerns.Liberal (and sometimes conservative) men are always ready to defend their free speech rights to porn. OTOH, conservatives (and sometimes liberals) are ready to shut down political discussion by claiming something is porn.It’s a balancing act but I think my comment stands. If they admit there are valid concerns, trans genocide. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl didn’t get PEN’s ire up, any more than the latest round of bans against Mark Twain (there is always a ban on something he wrote) did. For that matter, we also know TRAs are de facto banning works by women, real bans, not just you can’t read that in school. Rearranging books in libraries and stores so you can’t find them, or not having them in stock ever. Amazon workers doing drama die ins. “Sensitivity readers” objecting to “transphobia”.PEN ignores that.
(DIR) Post #AaXlcPscloF1bI6ofw by Childfree@spinster.xyz
2023-10-07T23:36:40.286486Z
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@Cousin_Isobel I used to love libraries so much. Now they're: sexual literature for children, drag, and mixed-sex restrooms.
(DIR) Post #AaYAnjeq4jGiym9ffs by mittimithai@neenster.org
2023-10-08T05:19:37.758485Z
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It's amazing how little of the public discussion goes to "well..how do we decide to allocate the finite space of a library to a subset of books? might there be sensible rules and the use of some random selection? "
(DIR) Post #AaZR2py2gtiDJiJufg by Cousin_Isobel@spinster.xyz
2023-10-08T19:56:20.734169Z
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@mittimithai Absolutely. The “Guide to Books for Middle Schoolers” my library put out is 100% woke. I mean, ever single title is about “diversity” in some way. They’re not all necessarily bad, but why is it all of them? It’s supposed to be a general guide! It’s terrifying that the people who are allegedly devoted to protecting books have no interest whatsoever in preserving the classics.