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glimshe an hour ago

I've banned a number of books from my household as I don't want my child exposed to them. And I support banning them from the school. Children aren't adults. It's reasonable to expect that education caters to a common denominator within society. I would only have a problem if adults couldn't acquire these books.

Aurornis 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

A family we know got swept up in the "banned books" movement. They repost banned book content on their Instagram and even got T-shirts with witty sayings about supporting banned books.

They bought some books for their kids from a banned books list thinking they were "banned" for thought-control reasons, but opened one up to find an illustrated guide to using mobile phone apps to find partners for anonymous hook-ups and a guide to following through with it.

The book clearly wasn't appropriate for their young children, so they hid it away. Now we joke that they've also banned the book.

mossTechnician an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can you list some of these books you want removed from school libraries, along with why?

BJones12 an hour ago | parent [-]

Mein Kampf?

croes an hour ago | parent [-]

No, make it part of the curriculum. Read it and shown how boring and stupid it is.

Demystify such nonsense

stronglikedan 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> Read it and shown how boring and stupid it is.

Except it's not, or it couldn't have continued to radicalize people to this very day.

rsynnott 33 minutes ago | parent [-]

... Wait, are you claiming that people are, having not previously been exposed to Nazism, reading it, and going "well, this seems like a pretty good idea really"? I'm fairly sure that's not a thing. No-one's being radicalised by it; rather the only people who really read it are already radicalised, because, otherwise, why would you bother?

There may be books which radicalise people. But I'm fairly sure Mein Kampf is not one of them.

quaddoggy 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

The irony of Mein Kampf suffering the streisand effect is not lost.

vasco an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

To a common denominator yes but if you aim for too much breath then you miss out on a lot of good things if you ban until almost everyone is satisfied. And some fads that get popular to ban things I disagree with like when people said violent games were the reason for violence or that rock and metal music made teenagers angry or that grunge makes them kill themselves. Many times some groups latch on to some popular culture topic as the reason for X pre-existing problem of the world.