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@Paul-Martin said
I'm very disappointed with Canada!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx0x6zz2pro

Books banned in schools include
The Handmaid's Tale
1984
Brave New World

What on earth is going on?
Are you sure this isn't just some conservative provincial government, like the red state governors here?

This can't be nationwide.

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And Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

Outrageous!

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Are they blacklisted in the entire library network? Or may students request an online copy or reissued order upon signed consent by their parents? In that sense, it's only curating a strata of books, designated too mature and making it easier for others selecting. Are they not permitted on school grounds, or just not on the curated shelves?

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Update, please acknowledge: the school board misinterpreted an order set down so the governing agent removed its directive to digitally catalogue books, thus the library may keep outside books. They clarified that only explicit images or pornographic illustrations are banned, not written, erotic, sexual language. One question was raised about cartoons, pushing a fine line. Presumably, concessions are made for medical depictions, anatomy stuff and classic art but I wouldn't categorize such as cartoon, like the lesbian lobby pushes it seems. It's a real bottleneck of information to go thru.

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Well, that's not all of Canada, is it?

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Well, I doubt that your disappointment could equal mine at the moment, but I still hold on to the hope that we might weather through this and become friends later on.

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@Of-Ants-and-Imps said
Update, please acknowledge: the school board misinterpreted an order set down so the governing agent removed its directive to digitally catalogue books, thus the library may keep outside books. They clarified that only explicit images or pornographic illustrations are banned, not written, erotic, sexual language. One question was raised about cartoons, pushing a fine ...[text shortened]... s cartoon, like the lesbian lobby pushes it seems. It's a real bottleneck of information to go thru.
For people so concerned about "censorship", it's disappointing that they would consider book banning "okay".

As Ms. Atwood said, book burning is next. And we know what government was a fan of that.

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@Suzianne said
For people so concerned about "censorship", it's disappointing that they would consider book banning "okay".

As Ms. Atwood said, book burning is next. And we know what government was a fan of that.
"Where books are burned, eventually, they burn people, too."


https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2788/burned-books-will-end-burning-people/

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@moonbus said
"Where books are burned, eventually, they burn people, too."


https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2788/burned-books-will-end-burning-people/
Outstanding. Those who would do one would certainly do the other.

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Ok, so that’s the what.

What’s the “why”?

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Thanks, but I still don’t see the rationale.

Banning books is early doors fascism, isn’t it?

I sometimes wonder if “fascism” is a redundant adjective in these contemporary days.