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King-of-New-York OP t1_ivjcqnv wrote

Reply to comment by k1lk1 in Brooklyn’s library moves to slip books through red state bans by King-of-New-York

In an ideal world, yes. But it’s hard for a public institution like a library to stay neutral in today’s political climate.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/ron-desantis-moms-for-liberty-florida-book-bans.html

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Darrackodrama t1_ivljhbt wrote

Staying neutral is making everything open source and letting the reader decide.

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k1lk1 t1_ivjecs2 wrote

Is it though? Shouldn't local institutions serve local people? Have all of the access and equity issues in Brooklyn really been solved already? Florida and Oklahoma have nothing to do with Brooklynites access to information.

Again, this is just political warriors capturing every entity they can and using it to pursue ideological ends.

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paradox_djell t1_ivjes2d wrote

It’s sad that you think this is a zero sum game where if they help someone else, it means they’re not helping us locals.

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k1lk1 t1_ivjf0np wrote

That's how spending money works. If you buy one thing, you are by definition not buying something else.

Call me crazy but I'd rather see the money go to assisting, oh, the hundreds of thousands of descendants of slaves, who live in Brooklyn.

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LivefromPhoenix t1_ivl2q2y wrote

>The Brooklyn Public Library’s “Books Unbanned” program provides access to its eBook collection and learning databases for people between the ages of 13 and 21.

Do conservative culture warriors even bother reading the posts before freaking out over this stuff? The cost of providing e-books and other online material for free to young people is negligible, especially considering its already set up for residents.

--edit-- Poor guy got embarrassed for not reading the article before complaining and blocked me.

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King-of-New-York OP t1_ivjfegm wrote

As an outsider looking in I believe that the BPL sees the actions across the country as an attack on its own autonomy, not as an attack on a completely separate entity.

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co_matic t1_ivl4d9n wrote

>political warriors capturing every entity they can and using it to pursue ideological ends

You mean like the activist social media accounts giving parents lists of scary books to take to their school boards and try to have removed from libraries?

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parkslopeymcamanager t1_ivjld8u wrote

I don't know who the nutjob in this article is, however as a parent I don't have a problem with certain clearly inappropriate books not being in school libraries.

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Alternative-Lion-427 t1_ivltlng wrote

Oh yeah. I read this book where these girls watch their mom die, then they decided they had to get their dad drunk and have sex with him to ensure he has sons to carry on the family name. Books like that have no place in the hands of kids. It's teaching sexual immorality, promoting drunkenness, and of course incest. Man. What was that book called.....

Oh yeah. The bible.

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