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    • Zorque@kbin.social
      445·
      11 months ago

      The US doesn’t ban shit, individuals hand down mandates to public institutions that then tell them to go fuck themselves.

        • Zorque@kbin.social
          15·
          11 months ago

          Oh, I am well aware that people in the US are banning books. There’s a culture war against libraries… but the US, as an institution, doesn’t ban anything. Saying otherwise is disinformation at its finest.

          • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            11 months ago

            The US is a collection of institutions. If you go back to 1980 and find that every single individual republic of the Soviet Union is censoring The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (wild and nonsensical example), except for Latvia, you should still say that the USSR is censoring The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

        • MxM111@kbin.social
          423·
          11 months ago

          In schools. There is such thing as curated material for children. You can call it ban, but do you want, for example, pornography available to anyone in elementary school library? Or Mein Kampf?

          Public libraries are different thing. No books are banned there.

      • AnonTwo@kbin.social
        171·
        11 months ago

        Please don’t lie to other countries. We’ve had several articles of libraries getting attacked by state legislature. Especially in Florida.

    • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
      245·
      11 months ago

      The US does not ban books outright but they do ban some of them from public libraries, especially school libraries, and for good reason.

        • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
          48·
          11 months ago

          What’s the good reason to ban a book?

          There aren’t any.

          Because it makes you think?

          Christ, no. “Making you think” is kinda the whole reason books exist, so I don’t know why you would think that?

            • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
              15·
              11 months ago

              It also said “public libraries” which the comment I replied to (intentionally) omitted.

              It’s a bad faith argument. They want to intentionally conflate removing books from children’s libraries with banning them from the country altogether.