August 9, 2022

Anybody said cancel culture? Conservative book banning

The Guardian, Fri 5 Aug 2022:

US library defunded after refusing to censor LGBTQ authors: ‘We will not ban the books’ 

Residents of Jamestown, Michigan, voted this week to shut down town’s library rather than tolerate certain LGBTQ books

Never mind the book bans in Florida and Texas... 

  Good reading: 

Conservatives claim to hate "cancel culture" — but it's the heart of the right-wing agenda Real "cancel culture": The right's decades-long campaign to stifle progressive ideas, protest and democracy itself 

By Paul Rosenberg - SALON - Published May 1, 2021