I don’t disagree. At all. I’m an absolutist about two things: voting, and books (well, and being kind to people and animals, and lots of other things. But you get my point.). I don’t care who you vote for, so much as I care that you bother to vote. And I don’t care what you read, so long as you do so. Deeply. Widely.With the youngest at an early Sunday morning birthday party (@lushcosmetics) and this caught my eye.
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) March 17, 2024
Let the kids read, folks. Stop banning books. pic.twitter.com/emnXlqkrM0
But our latest “enemy” is Moms for Liberty. They didn’t originate book banning, and book banning won’t stop because they lose their clout in scandal and failure. The ABA runs a Banned Book Week every year. They’ve been doing it since the founders of Moms for Liberty were even a gleam in their parents eyes.
Book bans are bad. Always have been, always will be. There are clearly books that don’t belong in school libraries; but that’s why we have librarians. I read my way through several libraries in my feckless youth. It wasn’t all up building moral teachings or deeply insightful literature. But it never did me any harm.
Widely. Deeply is good; but widely is, in some ways, better. And lay off banning books. Period.
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