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The increased oversight by conservative extremists of what books librarians can order for school libraries (i.e. cracking down on materials about gender, sexuality, race, and racism) is genuine Nazi behavior. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/01/22/students-want-new-books-thanks-restrictions-librarians-cant-buy-them/
Students want new books. Thanks to restrictions, librarians can’t buy them.

Conversations with 37 school librarians across 21 states suggest a thicket of red tape is impairing their ability to buy books.

The Washington Post
Jan 23, 2023 at 4:37pmWeb
Show threadPeter ButlerJan 23, 2023

@kottke This is an absolutely heartbreaking story.

"On her desk, the librarian keeps three pages of paper that students have covered with the scrawled titles they’d like to read, if only she could order them."

Show threadMarkus SaersJan 24, 2023
@kottke If anyone was looking for a good illustration of what “Tyranny of the Majority” looks like in practice, this is pretty spot on.
Show thread𝔸𝔻𝔸𝕄Jan 24, 2023
@kottke ah yes, America, the land of the free.
Show threadchef 😎Jan 24, 2023

@kottke These conservative nutjobs need to read a couple of books about the 1930s in Germany. 🙄☝️

#fascism #freedomofspeech #ignorance

Show threadglennJan 24, 2023
@kottke
Fundamentalism is Fundamentalism no matter which religious hat it wears.
Show threadDavid CohenJan 24, 2023
@kottke @siracusa GOP supports the constitutional right to free speech - unless they disagree with it
Show threadDruidJan 25, 2023
@kottke they are after all, many of them, genuine nazis of a sort.
Show threadTimo GrünJan 25, 2023
@kottke Last night on German TV I watched a documentary of the NSDAP takeover of the country in 1933, based on the diaries of normal people on both sides: Nurses, doctors, workers, journalists, trade unionists, embassy workers and more. There are differences, but the strategy parallels and the accelerating drip-drip-drip of how resistance is worn away, those are truly terrifying.