Vissbarnes and noble, right as you walk in the door :D
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)@Viss Holy heck, Fahrenheit 451 and The Alchemist are banned?! (Obviously not at this location but presumably elsewhere in your country?)
@jackyan california tends to not just fall in line like 'the south' does, and like texas does.
@Viss Good on California!
Aw man, just spotted To Kill a Mockingbird. WTF?!
Aw man, just spotted To Kill a Mockingbird. WTF?!
Lo@jackyan @Viss According to https://bannedbooks.library.cmu.edu/ (mentioned elswhere in the thread) it was banned at two instances due to it containing racial slurs.
@zner0L @Viss Thank you for looking. I read up on what Black scholars thought about these slurs and (correct me if I have this wrong) their position was to leave them in but note the lived experience of Black people in the context. In a classroom setting, I would hope this is what would happen. We read this at school and racism was discussed, but that’s New Zealand and we didn’t have anyone in our class who identified as Black back in 1990. I’ll defer to others who are better versed on this …
@jackyan @Viss For sure, my intention was not to say that book bans are legitimate in this case or couldn't otherwise be dealt with in an education setting. However, I think it is important to make the distinction that many of these books are not actually banned explicitly bc they are seen as hostile by the current US government, which seems to be what the thread (in my corner of fedi) has converged to.