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Originally Posted by PKFFW
I just wonder what all the hype is about.
Isn't it everyones right to complain about a book they don't like? The book hasn't been banned as far as I can see so what's the issue?
Don't get me wrong, I agree it seems a bit silly to complain about the book, or any of the books on the banned list for that matter. I just don't get why everyone in this thread seems to be suggesting we are one step away from a totalitarian thought police state that censors every last thing in our life as that clearly is not what has happened or even seems likely to happened based on this.
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Yes banned is not the correct word. Fortunately, as I stated in an earlier post here, it is very difficult to ban a book in the US in the meaning of preventing publication or distribution. Anything classified as pornography being the exception. However, in say a small rural community like the one I live in if some local activist group (a church group maybe) is successful in getting a book removed from school use and the public library it is effectively “banned” in that access to the book depends on even knowing that it exists and being able to obtain it.