Dan Williams’ proposed book ban aims to gin up a moral panic ‘with no basis in reality’ https://albertapolitics.ca/2026/04/dan-williams-proposed-book-ban-aims-to-gin-up-a-moral-panic-with-no-basis-in-reality/
Interesting question: Has Dan Williams, Alberta’s minister of municipal affairs and de facto chief censor, ever been inside a public library?
“They’ll – ummm – have to be stored in a sealed off area like the dirty movies in the golden age of VCR rentals, the minister explained.”
🤣 The idea of the ‘four dirty books’ sequestered into a curtained and segregated shrine is hilarious… if you wanted to make kids pay attention to a handful of books they might never have noticed, seems like the perfect way to do it.
… I’ve looked at the books and they are perfectly fine for teens.
Everyone should write to the minister asking permission to read some next book. Any book. All books. Just write to ask permission for every one of them.
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