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Iron Spike@ironspike.bsky.social |
Fun fact: @ryanestrada.com ‘s “Banned Book Club,” which I proudly publish, keeps being challenged in libraries for being “pornograhic.” There is zero sex or sexual suggestion in the title. The censors are just shrieking The Magic Word and hoping it gets them what they want. This is what they do.
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Abby
@abbylark.bsky.social
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Wait they're saying it's porn? There's not even a single tiddy in there!
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RobotLyra, Internet Sexyman Aficionado
@robotlyra.bsky.social
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I wonder if it's a case of having "banned" in the title makes challengers assume it must be about pornography, because they're obsessed with pornography.
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Scott
@smadin.net
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well, you see, it's critically important to ban books about how banning books is bad, because otherwise people who read them might question whether we were right to ban all the other books we banned
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Ryan Estrada
@ryanestrada.com
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Im the 80s, the magic word was "communist" in Korea and "satanic" in America. This latest batch of banners tried "woke" but it wasn't scary enough, so they switched to "porn." In every case, the word means "books with depictions of the types of people we don't want in society."
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Alyssa Read 🐀🏳️🌈🐀
@missalyssaread.bsky.social
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At this point I'm waiting for these nutjobs to just go after the entire press, because "But IC publishes PORN so these books might touch PORN so the PORN might rub off on these other books and infect our children with PORN!!"
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Maya Media
@mayamedia.bsky.social
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You’re so awesome. They’re so cringey, and ultimately self defeating. ❤️😊
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Holly P
@unsecretcrush.bsky.social
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I read my copy recently and naively assumed it was being challenged for reasons like “character who likes punching cops” or more broadly “disrespecting authority” but of course it’s much stupider and nonsensical than that
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