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I seriously don't remember anything in The Banned Book Club that even the most socially conservative of censorious busybodies would object to. It's anti-censorship and anti-authoritarian of course, but these same people love to pretend they're victims of censorship, that they're being silenced.

Of several books bought today Banned Book Club was one.

It’s just like when the nazis banned and burned books. The US is basically a 2026 nazi regime.

I don’t know, those detention centers can backfire.

Texas Republicans: "Big-government state censorship! 😱" Also Texas Republicans: Actual big-government state censorship. 😒

Wow! Banned Book Club?! I'm trying to figure out how it's a "dirty" book. /former resident of Texas.

Thank you for your work it’s important and meaningful. I bet the biggest sin of those two books, the most dangerous thing for them is that they both offer hope and a way out of cults, censorship and authoritarianism.

Ol Dan really letting everyone know that sex makes him uncomfortable. I guess an act that literally no one wants to voluntarily perform along with you starts looking scary after a while. Or he’s just a whiny piss baby who can’t get any.

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Being on this list is not a badge of honor. It means our work is being weaponized against schools, teachers and librarians to harm students. To replace libraries and learning with confinement and punishment.

Literacy is the tool of devil. Also, people who can read are 80% more likely to vote blue.

"convert it into a student detention center." haha wtf does that mean like after school detention orrrr

Well that just means i should probably read these books.

It sounds like a joke "A book about banned books is now a banned book". Why don't they just ouright say they want more detention centers?

I think the real goals are library closures and detention centres. And 'dirty books' is the sort of phrase someone who doesn't read books in the first place would use.

They called a book about a childs experiences of living in a cult DIRTY????

When I was young a teacher banning a book meant it went on my reading list

Between this and the recent c@nnabis ban Texas is speedrunning fascism.

Texas wanted to ban books from the library to hide and shield the s3x predators!!!

What could be more Republican than converting a library into a child jail.

Party of free- ah to hell with it. It's not even fun to point out republican hypocrisy

I think they think of it as "risking" "rebellious" thinking. That if they restrict what the lower classes are exposed to, they'll stay "obedient". They're wrong, of course, but fascists aren't good at thinking these things through.