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In the battle over books, who gets to decide what's age-appropriate at libraries? (www.npr.org)

submitted 11 months ago by Neighborhood339@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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Interesting article from NPR.

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[–] EditorOverall3861@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I think this is a targeted nonsense to distract people on a local level from actual serious political issues like crumbling infrastructure, multiple direct threats to democracy, the rise of fascism, and the acceleration of the decline of our material conditions.

I think this book stuff specifically is probably mostly far right astroturfing and then some local groups feeling emboldened by that. Literally never seen this level of local political action in my lifetime, across locations.

[–] Bananaperate6623@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Interesting take. Not sure what your point is. But what books are in what libraries is largely irrelevant given

[–] GaimanitePkat@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I think this is a targeted nonsense to distract people on a local level from actual serious political issues like...the rise of fascism

Aggressive censorship of material not conforming to a specific sociopolitical agenda sounds pretty much like fascism, eh?

[–] mrmaps@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Agreed. If these people actually cared about the innocence of their children they wouldn't be focusing on libraries.

I'd take an uncomfortable conversation with my daughter about a passage in a book over having to explain why parents aren't allowed to come in to the school anymore during pickup.