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Guess we can't ban Mein Kampf from school curricula or libraries. That would be limiting young people's understanding of racism!
The problem these people have isn't that students' understanding is being limited. They have been making such choices about what is and isn't allowed for years. The problem is that it's being done by the wrong people and we can't have that.
Bull fucking shit. It isn't exactly difficult to get a hold of a copy of any of these books. It isn't about controlling access, it's about not teaching and endorsing these materials.
To Kill a Mockingbird was banned by the left recently. Wikipedia and Silicon Valley tech are all about book burning, but digitally.
It's the friend-enemy distinction again. Burning enemy books is simply being a good person. Burning friend books is a violent assault. The obvious power disparity is irrelevant.