[ SECRET POST #3035 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3035 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Being Pro-Censorship

[(Anonymous)]

Well, first, those are kind of issues that libraries deal with regardless of political constraints. There's a limited amount of space in libraries, so you have to prune sometimes. Any decision to have a book is implicitly a decision not to have another book. I agree that's not what's going on in a case like this, but there are constraints on library systems in general.

Second, it's accurate to say that they're not allowed in the school library. I don't think it's accurate to say that the book is banned, because it's not banned. It's not blocked, proscribed, or punished. It's not prohibited and reading it isn't punished. It's removed from this one specific system and place. That's not a good thing, but it's not the same as saying it's banned.

I can tell this is about to become an argument about the precise definition of the word "banned", though. So if you want to just say that this is what "banned" means to you, fine, whatever. That's not what I think it means, and I think it's insanely overdramatic to use in this context, but fuck it, whatever.

Re: Being Pro-Censorship

[blitzwing]

I can tell this is about to become an argument about the precise definition of the word "banned", though.

Not from me. I'm not invested enough for that.

It's not prohibited and reading it isn't punished

You're assuming that. I have been told by teachers "don't bring that book back to school with you" about books I brought into the school from the public library. Schools do feel that they have a right to meddle in what students are reading in their free time (like on lunch break or after assignments are finished).