I think a lot of the downvotes are from people misinterpreting your comment as saying that banning books is good.
The joke is making fun of conservatives banning books and paranoia around blades and poison hidden in Halloween candy.
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doctorn@r.nf 8 months ago
Must be bad books? Usually banned books are a good thing. Learn what nobody wants you to know! 😅
Or am I missing some kind of sarcasm here? 😅
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 8 months ago
doctorn@r.nf 8 months ago
Oh, I see it now, editing it for clarification… 😅
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Most banned books aren’t age appropriate or contain some issue. Like Gender Queer, the “Most banned book in America”, freely available to order, contains pictures of sex, blowjobs, and a blood soaked tampon left until the blood curdled. It’s not exactly appropriate for kids, so it got banned.
The issue is that most of lemmy has never looked at a banned book, and they’re just circlejerking thinking that only super important books get banned or some shit like that.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
No, most banned books are sex-education or contain something that the conservative parents that don’t actually read these books won’t like because of some mistaken idea that teaching kids about the world is a bad thing
As someone who has perused multiple of the books on the ban list: not a single one I’ve seen is something that you’d legit keep out of a kids hands unless you were some weird prude who hated sex. Eg, a conservative with little sex education themselves
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Gender queer is sex education. Just because it has information in it doesn’t mean its appropriate.
almar_quigley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Mommies and daddies technically are a sex ed concept. It’s all about context friend.
PoopMonster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You wanna hear something mind-blowing? When I go to a library and don’t like a book I just don’t read it…
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah, doesn’t mean that libraries can or should carry every book ever made. School libraries should have books appropriate for the students.
PoopMonster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Problem is idiots will see an authors last name being Gay and immediately call for a ban without even knowing what’s in the book.
Uranium3006@kbin.social 8 months ago
Fuck off book burner
DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world 8 months ago
blood soaked tampon left until the blood curdled. It’s not exactly appropriate for kids
Well shit, I’m in my early 30s and it’s definitely sounding like it’s not appropriate for me either
doctorn@r.nf 8 months ago
Oh, these kinds of “banbedbook for children”… 😅
Thank you so much for not just downvoting me, but at least enlightening me of what I didn’t get! I appreciate that! Many just downvote without making me any wiser, even when I ask for clarification… 😅
Either way, those kinds of books are ibdeed not fpr children and are bad to be getting in candy, hands down agreed on that! I just saw “banned books” and assumed books with information that make you question the powers that be or the preset values taught… It’s ok to think differently and to critic information that only comes from one side of the story. But it of course is a bad thing to give any sexual or gorey content to children, I just didn’t think about that kind of bad when it is put in front of “books”, tbh, if it’s sexual content I’d more expect it to be ‘pictures’ then instead of ‘books’,…
Anyway, again, thanks for clarifying!
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Its pictures, which feels worse somehow. Heres a link with some of the worst pages. NFSW.
Rolando@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fwiw, here’s a list of frequently banned books in the USA: www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/…/decade2019