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Originally Posted by roachboy
uh...so you don't think there are bannings.
there are just resource allocations and decisions which are of a piece with them.
so any community can allocate any book out of the cirriculum and you're fine with that, because "buy it online" means there are no "bans" and if there were, you'd oppose them, but there aren't any, so you're cool with books being "allocated" out of the cirriculum because some nitwits imagine that reading x might encourage little johnny to become gay or worse to think independently of the parents on political questions. for example.
um...because if these abstract nitwits were to decided to allocate a book out of the cirriculum, that's not banning.
so there are no banned books.
wait.
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Yes, books are banned. But unless we frame the context of why, we are simply demonizing the practice by using an unsavory term. Do we allow pornography, KKK materials, witchcraft, bestiality, sadomasochism, man-boy love, religion? If they are not allowed in schools, are they not banned? These are extremes, but we do draw lines in our schools.