On the one hand, I agree with this. On the other hand, I feel guilty when I read it because I have certainly been known to remove conspiracy theory literature from the lobby rack and put it in the recycling, and if I've read a book that I considered very toxic, it's new home was the garbage can. 🤷🏻♀️🚯📚
I think the difference there is that you're not in a position of power to dictate to others, besides maybe your family. Everyone is free to decide what their immediate environment is, but not their neighbors'.
Oh, of course — I see the difference. But I understand the impulse, too, to eliminate something I see as dangerous. If I was on a school board, I would ban anti-trans books, and so on. But if my head spoke differently, if I thought *trans* people were dangerous to children… You see the problem. 😭
I think this starts into the paradox of tolerance territory. The idea that we have to be tolerant of all viewpoints, even violent, bigoted ones, to be considered tolerant. Your desire to eliminate intolerant viewpoints isn't equated to someone's want to eliminate legitimate ones.
That's not where I'm going. I'm just saying I understand why it is hard to make that distinction when you're looking at the world in a different way. Don't you?
I fear I have alienated you. But I really am conscious that I need to keep an eye on my own impulses, and to remember that the people who are making horrific choices are still people like me. Not so that we will overlook the choices but so that we will find constructive ways to make change, not war.
Oh my god!!’ This “book” sounds hideous and is ABSOLUTELY one I have no interest in reading, and based on what I’ve found out, shouldn’t be classified as literature or reading material.
As I commented above, I haven’t heard of this piece of trash before now, and it doesn’t seem like something that should be classified as literature. It sounds like a deranged and egregious manifesto of some sort.
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I read it. Half way through a NORMAL chapter NO WARNING "so yeah she got aggressively and horribly gang raped".
We're banning 1984 instead of the book about a sex addict coming to terms with having been groomed.
This book was sitting in my high school library when I found it.
Definitely not a book teens as young as 13 should be able to check out while at school. Title alone should have been a red flag.
THE BOOK IS FULL OF TEENAGERS HAVING SEX WITHOUT CONDOMS!!!
I think ONE was 18.
And NO it is not a good book literacy wise either. It reads like a 2019 Y/N wattpad story made by a 14 yro virgin.
Some books need to be banned and it's not the ones with racial slurs.
Beyond the rape and minor sex, the terms used within the book were actually painful to read.
Thanks Saoirse, I appreciate it.