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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       -printing-press-internet-archives-180964697/              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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