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We have, broadly speaking, two groups deciding which books to make available to children using taxpayer money - the voters/parents/elected officials, and unelected librarians. If one of those groups decides to withhold a book from schoolchildren, it's fine and not a ban. But if another does the same, then it's a ban.

Or am I completely wrong, and Jared Taylor's "White Identity" is available in every school library, explaining its absence from "banned" book lists?





You are wilfully wrong.

So Jared Taylor's "White Identity" is available in most school libraries?

No, your strawman has nothing to do with the article's content.

Of course it does - the article makes a big deal about books banned [1] by parents/politicians, but turns a blind eye to books banned by librarians themselves. I refuse that framing.

[1] 'Banned' meaning not using taxpayer money to make them available to schoolchildren.


Make your own list then, instead of having toddler conniptions about this one.



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