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submitted 7 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

In at least half a dozen states, librarians have joined forces with civil rights groups to oppose book bans, often facing personal and professional repercussions

For decades, libraries served as a safe haven for many queer and marginalized youths in eastern Texas, says former county library director Rhea Young. Unlike the school cafeteria, the library was a space where they could explore and find acceptance in who they wanted to be.

“There were books where they can find characters like them, and realize it’s okay to be who they are,” Young said. “There needs to be more places like that, not fewer.”

That all changed two summers ago when, amid a wave of book bans, Montgomery county officials asked Young to move books with LGBTQ+ themes or “sexually explicit” content at the public library into a section restricted to readers 18 years and older, and instructed her to order more titles with conservative Christian content.

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[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 28 points 7 hours ago

There's nothing that exposes what fragile loser control-freaks the reactionaries are than telling other people what they cannot read.

They're pathetic.

[-] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 18 points 7 hours ago

I seriously think it's a cognitive thing. Like they don't have enough self awareness to know that everything they say about the other side is just projection

[-] cutay22@ttrpg.network 15 points 7 hours ago

and instructed her to order more titles with conservative Christian content.

Scumbags.

[-] samburwell96@piefed.social 7 points 7 hours ago

I read the book Troy in middle school, which is where I read my first depiction of rape, and a baby getting the actual shit beaten out of them. Then in our high school library we got A Song of Ice and Fire, which blew 9th grade me away lol. Either way, bet your ass those aren't getting removed

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