Ostomy Memories of Book Banning

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HenryM

NARROW-MINDED PEOPLE ARE FOREVER trying to push their ignorant perspective upon the rest of us.  It’s frankly disgusting.  The American Library Association recently released a report that found 729 attempts in 2021 to ban library, school, and university materials, targeting 1,597 individual books.  Conservative groups bent on limiting what other people read have challenged public school libraries to purge books, generally about LGBTQ issues and people of color.  Racial issues, for instance, and facts regarding this country’s history of racial prejudice, seem to really bother those who would prefer to not confront, or admit, the past.  The past, it would seem, isn’t really past after all.  The ominous significance of this madness is frightening.  Just a half step from book banning is book burning.  The most recent and notable example of this ultimate form of censorship and intolerance was in 1933 when Nazi-dominated groups carried out public book burnings all over Germany.  In the aftermath of the book burnings, the Nazi thugs raided bookstores, libraries, and publishers’ warehouses to confiscate materials they deemed ‘dangerous’ or ‘un-German.’  Works of prominent Jewish, liberal, and leftist writers ended up in the bonfires. Examples of similar bigotry and censorship are occurring today in many of our states, my own home state of Florida being a prime example with its rightwing nutcase governor DeSantis.  Democracy is slipping away; make Amerika great again.  

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I believe the opposite to be true. The woke brigade are banning books, even classical literature, because they want to re-write history.

In Scotland the Stirling university literature course has removed Jane Austen to help 'decolonise the curriculum' and 'contribute increased diversity' on the syllabus.

The "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder are now considered racist because of her depiction of Native Americans.

It seems George Orwell was a modern day Nostradamus as unfortunately his books are now becoming true.

Apparently even if something was written hundreds of years ago and is historically accurate if someone feels offended by it we have to abolish it.

Who is next on the hit list - William Shakespeare?

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You're right about Orwell.  It just took a little more time past 1984 to get there.  But "the woke brigade" (whatever 'woke' means) is much less guilty of re-writing history than their opposite numbers on the right, at least in contemporary USA culture war politics.  Still, I'd worry more about Twain and Faulkner than Shakespeare.  Political correctness can go too far.  Anyway, I suspect our views are less "opposite" than you think.  Stay well.

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