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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 13, 2023, 10:55:29 am
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It’s Not Censorship When They Do It
Both sides agree that children should not be exposed to inappropriate materials.
March 13, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield 1 Comment
The New York Times has run dozens of shrill and false stories accusing Florida of banning books. The paper has numerous stories about what it calls “book bans”: virtually all of them involve removing sexual content from schools at the behest of parental groups and conservatives.
And then it runs this.
Should Classic Children’s Books Be Updated for Today’s Young Readers? New York Times
The Times largely links to an op-ed, ‘The Truth About the ‘Censorship’ of Roald Dahl’ arguing that it’s no big deal. “Making changes, even rather sweeping ones, to classic works of literature is not as controversial as some would like to imagine.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/its-not-censorship-when-they-do-it/