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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm fine with the ALA keeping track of the challenges. Remember, this isn't a case someone simply "not liking" a book. These are cases where someone took the official "first step" in trying to keep other people from liking a book by having it removed from a library system. Just because they weren't successful doesn't mean it's not noteworthy.
If I were packing up and relocating a young family, I would certainly want to know if I was moving to a community that had an abundance of jerk-wads who were making numerous efforts to bring their library more "into compliance" with their religious or political ideals. Waiting until someone successfully gets a book banned is a little late to bring it to everyone's attention, is it not?
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True. A book being removed from circulation doesn't seem like much to worry about but I imagine the European Jews didn't see the 1st few 'laws' passed in the 1930's as much to worry about either. And we all know where that led to. I'm not saying that a single book being removed will lead to something like the Nazi's but from small acorns can grow big oaks.