• MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    And no, I do not support book-banning in any way, shape, or form.

    Just so you know, I didn’t think you did. I hope my response didn’t come across that way.

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      4 months ago

      No, not at all, I just think calling this socio-economic class-based is incorrect. Being in school is not a class (no pun intended).

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        4 months ago

        If you don’t think that Republicans are interested in an all-out assault on libraries in general, I kindly suggest you check a book out about it from your local library (while you still can).

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        4 months ago

        To support the idea that it is class based, I suspect we will find it is being selectively applied to poorer communities, which specifically drives the most able-to-change-jobs (often the best) librarians to move to other communities where this is not being applied.

        I base my assumption on historic selective enforcement of other laws with similar vulnerability to abuse - such as selective enforcement during prohibition.

        I believe that librarians, of any kind, are being targeted, be because libraries are historically a source of improved equity.

        So my assertion is that any action taken against any library should be examined carefully under a lens of suspected class warfare.