of several classics — including"To Kill a Mockingbird" and"Huckleberry Finn" — because of their use of archaic racial epithets. , saying:"The books tell anti-racist stories using historically-accurate racist language. Teaching them requires compassion and sensitivity … but banning books does not erase racist ideas or prevent racist incidents."Jacob Mchangama
, told me that it's important to remember these books represent"the viewpoints of authors who are now dead and who were very much representative of the thoughts and mores of their times." — including expensive e-readers with limited choices — the government engages in censorship on a mass scale. Offensiveness is in the eye of the beholder, and it doesn't justify censorship
The right absolutely loves when young, elite professionals get their"snowflake" on and demand conservative voices be silenced, or at the very least shunted into faraway corners. It confirms their belief that we are in a culture war of attrition. "It's still mostly books being challenged for talking about the Black experience, the Hispanic experience, the LGBTQ experience in America in ways that contravene our national self-understanding, particularly amongst Americans who may not have been exposed to these perspectives before. Which is to say, largely white Americans who are not part of these communities," Tager said.
The right's attempts to ban discussion of"divisive issues" pertaining to race and gender aren't"censorship," in their view. Many conservatives believe, in fact, that such prohibitions are necessary to allow voices who dissent from the prevailing orthodoxies to be heard.
anthonyLfisher Which book did the right ban?