Comment by 46493168
6 days ago
> I don't think children should be given copies
Disingenuous framing. Book bans remove books from school libraries. A book sitting on a shelf is not giving a book to someone.
> of Mein Kampf or Camp of Saints
Why not? Genuinely, why not? What will happen if children have access to words on a printed page? Most of them have access to a supercomputer in their pocket.
To make my stance clear in case it’s not: there is no such thing as “age appropriate literature.” A free society depends on intellectual freedom. Restricting school libraries from holding certain books is a tactic to raise children to be closed minded adults.
> there is no such thing as “age appropriate literature.”
Would you be comfortable with a 5 year old reading "Morning Glory, Milking Farm"?
Another disingenuous framing. We’re talking about banning books from school libraries, not my personal comfort with an individual child reading an individual book.