Book bans are soaring in America. Not even Captain Underpants can escape them

, and this is only those that have come to light publicly. The ALA estimates that as many as 10,000 different titles are removed from the shelves of public school and local libraries each year.Captain UnderpantsIn 2020, the libraries logged 729 challenges to 1597 books; the year before, just 156 challenges to 273 books.. Frankness about sex and racism is being challenged at a skyrocketing rate.

Australia does not have the same local mechanisms for book bans. Other than in private schools, concerned citizens can’t band together and make noise to get books censored as they can in the US. But this does not mean the strong arm of book censorship does not exist in Australia.

Scott Morrison’s futile attempts to save his prime ministership by igniting a culture war through the preselection of the controversial campaigner Katherine Deves might only have failed because the timing was not right. All political ideas, the worst even more than the best, can remain in cold storage and bide their time until their moment arrives. Today’s misfire is, too often, tomorrow’s stroke of genius.Censorship, from whatever direction, is an ugly blunt object, but it retains an enduring appeal.

The mission of those hard-working librarians is to keep books alive whatever their colour, and to maintain the idea of freedom as an indivisible one. In this, they echo the philosopher Noam Chomsky when he wrote that “if we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all”. Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, the cradle of American democracy.

Just put a gun quote in them !

If a book makes one person uncomfortable; ...then 330,000,000 people can't chose to read it. BUT ALSO? If a mask makes one person uncomfortable; ...then it is their right to be a BioTerrorist and force covid on others. merica idiots bioterrorism longcovid OrangeClowns

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