The association, founded in 1876, condemned legislation that would threaten librarians and other educators with criminal prosecution for possessing “obscene” material.

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    What’s your point? The current laws allow for hustler magazine to be curated in a library? It doesn’t.

    What books have graphic depictions? Do these books “lack serious literary, artistic, political, educational, or scientific value.”?

    Is your point that even if a book has serious literary or educational value, it should still be banned? Wanting to ban things of educational or literary value is censorship. It’s a free speech issue because these books are forms of expression. Banning things with value deprives other people of that value.

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      Do these books “lack serious literary, artistic, political, educational, or scientific value.”?

      Yes.

      Is your point that even if a book has serious literary or educational value, it should still be banned?

      If the content is otherwise pornographic in nature, it has no place in public libraries.

      Also people need to stop using the word “banned”. It’s not Fahrenheit 451 to have a discussion about what does or doesn’t belong in children’s libraries.

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        9 months ago

        No example of a “pornographic” book? Not even the gay penguin one or the other book authored by Mrs Gay?

        Spineless shit, prove you aren’t a bigot.

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          Spineless shit, prove you aren’t a bigot.

          Ah yeah now I’m really motivated to return to this 🙄

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            Right, your hallucination of pornography in libraries isn’t actually happening, and this law is designed to harass educators.

            Get bent.