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

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[โ€“] 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.

[โ€“] 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?

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