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Kath2

(3,174 posts) Tue Jul 18, 2023, 02:25 PM Jul 2023

I read banned books.

Even better, I buy them. And recommend them to my friends. And share them.

I actually find what the right wing calls the "worst" to be fun, educational and informative. I would have no problem with any of my children reading any of them.

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I read banned books. (Original Post) Kath2 Jul 2023 OP

Before I retired as a librarian, murielm99 Jul 2023 #1

I think we all have an obligation cyclonefence Jul 2023 #2

murielm99

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1. Before I retired as a librarian,

Reply to Kath2 (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2023, 02:39 PM

Jul 2023

I bought all the banned books I could find for the library.

cyclonefence

(5,145 posts)

2. I think we all have an obligation

Reply to Kath2 (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2023, 02:42 PM

Jul 2023

to do just what you're doing. We hear about "parental rights" in determining what our kids read in school--well, how about *our* parental rights?

After-school reading clubs? We need to mobilize on this, beyond protesting against those Mothers for Liberty or whatever the hell they call themselves. How are you supposed to learn anything if you aren't exposed to things you don't know about?

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