Maybe the parents and school decided there are better books to read. Now why are you not throwing a fit over all the states and cites that have banned AR15’s. I have not seen you throwing a fit because some of the dr seuss books are no longer in school libraries.
Gorsuch sounds like the typical modern conservative, a rabid victim, completely lacking in the slightest whiff of historical context, unable to see past the tip of his entitled nose and awaiting the applause from a whole world of “content creators”. Not a serious person. A clown. Perverted and sick.
Do state governments ban your favored book from private schools, or do they just decide not to use it in their own libraries?
In your analogy, if a city ran a gun store but decided they would not carry AR15s, that is not banning that gun. If they say private gun stores cannot carry AR15s, that is banning.
IMO.
School libraries banning books is a never ending seesaw. Have any books been removed or edited anywhere because of the need to “modernize” them to current standards with regards to say race?
But anyway gorsuch much like the rest of us is a victim of viewing the world through the prism of the now. Right now this is the biggest violation. In comparison? I don’t agree.
With a little perspective, this whole argument turned on a matter of definition: what is a “ban”.
The posters who disagreed with me have defined ban as a total elimination of the book – or whatever else might be banned, whereas I saw a concerted nationwide effort to eliminate something as a ban.
I don’t think those who disagreed with are truly serious about their definition. There has been so much outrage about “cancelling” when conservative speakers have been prevented from speaking on some college campuses or when social media have restricted content or dismissed conservative speakers. Yet in those instances, those speakers have many campuses and social media outlets where they can still speak out.
If I say that these books were cancelled, but not banned, can we all agree on that choice of words?
If we cannot, then the objections to my claim of a ban aren’t serious, but are just noise trying to swarm a concern about free speech.
That’s it right there. Insisting on narrow definitons is an age old debate technique. The books were banned, they know the books were banned, and they also know it’s not a good look. So: poof! Turns out the books weren’t banned after all, because it’s only a ban if the book is removed from both space and time.