Gender-critical books hidden by 'tinpot censor' Calderdale council librarians

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[–]bucetao6969Ace Spectrum 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I thought they didn't want books banned?

So we can all agree certain books should be banned, right?

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Banned from the children's section of the library? Sure. Banned from general circulation? Nah. If adults wanna check out some smut let them? Problematic when you start deciding what is allowed and what is not since it is all subjective. At worst you can argue that explicit covers aren't readily visible. Or that you make an "adults only section".

I think outright pornography has no place in a library sure but it's s fine line between pornography and art so if you go too stupid on that you'll get both the dumbasses that think David is porn and the dumbasses that think gender queer is appropriate for tweens.

I've never understood the problem with marginally tasteful nudity. Like don't people see themselves in the mirror all the time? Who cares?

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

unfortunately all too often the attitude's "censorship's only bad because I'm not the one doing it"

[–]xoenix[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Like this doesn't happen all over the place.

Related: James Lindsay's podcast: The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog. Which just so happens to be run by a Marxist queer theorist.

[–]UncleWillard56 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The hypocrisy is just overwhelming. The idea that critical thinking is not a thing and that only one side of any premise should be examined flies in the face of libraries. The whole point is to have a marketplace of ideas and information so people can make informed decisions. Any idiot who picks a side and tries to stymy that should be fired.