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

Regardless of your downvotes the fact remains that not including certain books and/or removing them based upon community petition is more democratic than keeping them in the library against the wishes of the community. A minority’s complaints doesn’t always overrule the majority’s when both sides are fully capable of petitioning for their position and having it implemented.

As a reader of literature I don’t like the current basis of the effort to remove books, but I accept it as part of our democratic system; it’s better than a dictate that you must keep certain books in the library.