I Utah i de Amerikanske forbundsstatene er de nå gått helt tilbake til middelalderen og har i praksis begynt å brenne bøker…
«…banned materials must be “legally disposed of” and “may not be sold or distributed”.»
#bokbrenning #litteratur #utahbookbanning #norwegian #Norsktut #judyblume #sarahjmass #margaretatwood #rupikaur #ellenhopkins #elanakarnold #craigthompson
The US state of Utah releases its first list of banned books.
«They want to make it so that if one or two parents or school board members don’t like a book, they can easily take it away from every single resident in the state.»
Well beyond merely ironic to use democracy as the delivery vehicle for a policy of tyrannical rule by minority.
I also have come to think it not coincidental that our plutocratic overlords are devising schemes like this, which I see as the political analogs of leveraged buyouts, which also allow one power beyond what seems like should be their rightfully earned means, distorting the natural checks and balances of a market, democracy here being the marketplace of ideas.
A number of recent political moves have had this shape, not least of which the capture of the Supreme Court and really brazen exploitation of its power to bootstrap other independent power structures, leaving themselves as gatekeepers, but making these less regulated structures more untouchable.
Capture of the voting structures locally in each state feels like another. Privatization of government services is another. Injecting religion into the public sphere is another. The according of protected rights to corporations ("legal people") is another. In my mind, these all share a common tactical structure of exploiting a legislative weakness to create an unchecked power structure.
Further to the death of irony, too, the GOP wrongly complains, and recently offers Project 2025 as alleged antidote, that FDA, CDC, NOAA, and other science-based agencies are on par, doing the same. They want party loyalists installed there to keep science more responsive to the ruling party. As if that science is a thing one can or should vote on. But then they create their own similarly extragovernmental groups and processes but make no effort to make THOSE groups responsive to party.
It leaves me flabbergasted.
https://www.themarysue.com/utah-releases-first-list-of-books-to-be-banned-statewide/
#FreeSpeech #BookBan #BookBanning #UtahBookBanning #LBO #SCOTUS #democracy #privatizing #politics #FreedomOfSpeech
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Kent Pitman