When books are burned...
...it is usually on the pretext that the contents are dangerous.
The way to ensure that ideas, thoughts, opinions aren’t destroyed by those who want to silence them isn’t to say “we’ll only burn bad books”, it’s by saying “burning books is never a thing to be celebrated”
Critique a racist book. Analyse it, annotate it, say something insightful about its content. It’s bizarre that people don’t grasp this
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I think people get it
Eliminating history or texts usually occurs when you want to replace it with a new narrative that suits your cause. It's never for good reasons.
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Perhaps they've already tried writing a sternly worded letter
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Would it be a decent compromise to include a content warning?
- like they do for old films with dodgier content than we'd comfortably tolerate these days?
On a related note, isn't it curious that we have widespread state film censorship, but it's far less common to see literary censorship.
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Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 19:14,
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Tell that to Kate Clanchy.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 19:58,
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It's disappointing that she gave in to all the pearl clutching in the end.
I suspect that the vast majority of folk denouncing her for her 'racist' and 'ableist' overtones likely had no intention of reading her book in the first place.
People make a hobby of finding things to get morally outraged by these days. Instead of bowing to their demands of inoffensive vaguery, why not grow a fucking backbone and tell them to shit off, instead?
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Wasn't she responding to public criticism rather than being censored by a state body, though?
It's not like she was legally obliged to make cuts or anything.
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Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Tue 14 Sep 2021, 6:56,
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