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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
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.
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What should be reported are which books are SUCCESSFULLY challenged, instead of the books that are objected to by any crackpot for any reason. But that wouldn't scare people the way the use of the word "banned" does.