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Librarians, public servants, masters of the Dewey Decimal System and now the latest villains in America's culture wars. Conservative Christian activists are demanding the removal of an expanding list of books, and free speech defenders are crying censorship. NPR's John Burnett has this story.
JOHN BURNETT, BYLINE: The battle inside America's libraries is playing out at the monthly meetings of the Lafayette, La., Library Board of Control.
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: We'll begin.
BURNETT: At the August meeting, after reports on the bookmobile, library hours and plans for a new branch, the lectern is open for public comments.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Everything that has happened in the past 18 months with this board and to the library has been basically a dystopian nightmare. ...
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Don’t worry, it probably won’t be long until they start demanding swim suits get put on MichaelAngelo statues
CuddyCruiser
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ADKSparky
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Aug 30, 2022
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I like to call them the Evangeliban.
Burning books was one of the first things the Nazis did before setting fire to all of Europe.
Flyingsaucesir
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Aug 30, 2022
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The book that everybody should be required to read, but won't is Orwell's 1984, because it spells out the dangers of totalitarian governments and societies where assholes like this control all thought and information.. That is the last thing these fools would ever read and the first book they would ban..
TomMcGiverin
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The right wing assholes are bullies and ignoramuses, but in that state, it's probably a qualification for public office...
TomMcGiverin
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As it is in ALL red states.
@jlynn37 Including mine, Iowa is not much better. We get the same kind of yahoos showing up at school and library board meetings.
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