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   Michael Trew to Moderator   
   Re: A Frenzy of Book Banning [telecom]   
   14 Nov 21 00:46:21   
   
   From: michael.trew@att.net   
      
   On 11/13/2021 16:00, Moderator wrote:   
   > By Michelle Goldberg   
   >   
   > Virginia's Spotsylvania County School Board this week voted   
   > unanimously to have books with "sexually explicit" material removed   
   > from school library shelves. For two members of the school board, this   
   > didn't go far enough; they wanted to see the books incinerated. "I'm   
   > sure we've got hundreds of people out there that would like to see   
   > those books before we burn them," said one of the members, Kirk   
   > Twigg. "Just so we can identify, within our community, that we are   
   > eradicating this bad stuff."   
   >   
   > https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/book-bans.html   
      
   Ignorance is bliss, I suppose... these folks must not be up to snuff on   
   the not-so-pretty history of book burning:   
      
   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-book-burnin   
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