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jnovek 3 hours ago

It is censorship if those books are not included for a specific reason.

“We aren’t including this book in the library because we don’t have space for every book.” <—— not censorship

“We aren’t including this book because we don’t think it’s appropriate for kids to learn about trans people.” <—- censorship

bluescrn 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> “We aren’t including this book because we don’t think it’s appropriate for kids to learn about trans people.” <—- censorship

Removing books from public libraries (not just schools) because we find criticism of certain ideas around gender to be offensive <-- definitely censorship

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-66441947

logifail 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Playboy was never in school libraries either, basically because children aren't adults.

Isn't this basic curation and child protection, not censorship?

buellerbueller 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Since there are no libraries with space for every book (ever), then there is no censorship?

mcphage 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Since there are no libraries with space for every book (ever), then there is no censorship?

When people ban books because they don't want others to learn about trans people, they're usually pretty vocal about their motivations.

7bit 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's a childish argument.

buellerbueller 2 hours ago | parent [-]

My point was to highlight the ridiculousness of the comment to which I was responding; glad it worked!

7bit 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It didn't work. The comment wasn't ridiculous. Your reply was. But yes, if you want to flip thing around so you feel validated, be my guest.