Interesting article from NPR.

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    The point of all of this is to continue stigmatizing non-heterosexuality and transgender. If it is a banned topic, then something must be wrong with it, right? Something must be wrong with me for feeling how I feel, right?

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    The issue with letting the community have a free for all to come decide what a 13 year old should be reading is that these are the people who show up to such meetings of the mind. Pic from the article, which some of you haven’t read. I don’t think busybody boomers on a (usually faith based) moral purity mission should be the ones curating the selection in a public library, period.

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    The parent who’s with them. If you’re worried about what your kid’s reading then just check their books before they check out.

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    And the idiot saga of book bans continues, because some fundamentalist dingbats can’t be arsed to parent their own goddamn children, but instead want the “liberty” to inflict their medieval morals on everybody else.