In Canada, a couple of years ago, a school actually did remove and burn over 4,000 books it deemed offensive to Indigenous people. The book burnings were dubbed a "gesture of reconciliation."
My solution is to privide snowflake sections in public libraries, rather like the children's sections they have now. That way they can also be protected from nasty words that may harm their unformed minds.
@@cassandrade-wolfe6926 the Germans ruled by the evil one have done this. Don't they ever learn where this leads? Control the past, control the arts and control the present.
When I was in secondary school, Lady Chatterly's Lover was banned. A few copies found their way to our school. There was a waiting list to read them. That was the kind of people who are now pretty old and have even been called the term Boomers in a derogatory way.....
You can not alter what is in those books I just think this country has completely lost its marbles, does this mean book shops will have put trigger warnings unbelievable.
Libraries have more than print books; they've kept up with the times. I don't have to "go" to a physical library. From the convenience of my home, I can check out electronic books, audiobooks, movies, and music, all for free. Long live libraries!
Picked up a late 1960s non fiction book from a local charity shop recently, in which the african american was referred to as negro, all the way through it. It came as a bit of a shock, but I wasn't traumatised.
Even if Ted Hughes had been descended from slaveowners... what difference would it make? What does that have to do with his writings? How is he responsible for the actions of his ancestors? What would the warning say? "Just to make sure you are upset, the author of these works may be descended from people who did bad things at some point. Please be offended at something you didn't need to know and has no bearing on the author and his works."
Ludicrous waste of time and money books are books if you don't like the content don't read it, it is pathetic and ridiculous abuse of the general public intelligence stop this lunacy.
When the oceans wash them away, lot of people will wish for a book of any kind. Because the flash will have ended their little tether to information, and their little barely reflective brick will be useless. Good luck with that.
Yes indeed we British are genuinely highly sensitive People/a loud voice induces unbearable tramua and we immediately need to lie down take a death breath and seek therepy
A public funded institute. Funding needs to be halted until they stop this nonsense and fire those responsible. They clearly have too much staff with too much time on their hands.
