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Your local school/bookstore/library's "banned books" list:

- The Manual for Gay Sex

- Hey Dad, I'm a Girl Now

- The Jesus Myth (And Other Lies Your Parents Taught You)

- Adventures in the Occult

- Girlboss: How to Be a Corporate Goddess

- etc.

Incorrect. Those books would not be banned from a bookstore except at the full disgression of the owner.

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nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq4pa5q2kqs8ygfxuat02w88ezsle9wzwnu0meu7z2785t8rl0hhcsahhd4m nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqxgtlsdpkzvu3n3wn607yhd2hny32g7ep8c20a4r9qgujukssmamq0mr70d You missed the point. Bookstores like to have display shelves of "banned books" to entice people to read them, thinking that there's something they're not supposed to know, but in reality those shelves of "banned" books serve only to corrupt and debase them.

For example, see this list of "banned books" from Columbia University's somewhat recent article on the topic: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2023/september/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-book-bans-sweeping-the-us/

Also, it's "discretion," not "disgression."

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Fuck... I think I even looked it up too 😫

So... is a banned book list a list of books in your library labelled "banned", or is it a list of books that are banned from your library?