The Biggest "Book-Banning" 'Censors' in America
For those unfamiliar, New Hampshire has a State Library and a State Librarian. Why is a fair question, but that aside, the current chief is stepping down, and the governor gets to appoint a new one. His first choice had her name pulled after a citizen uprising. Her association with the American Library Association was a clear and present danger - as were her seminars for the ALA on how to stop book banning.
That’d be the definition the kid-hating proglodytes apply to books anyone can buy but that some parents find objectionable and age-inappropriate; they don’t think kids ought to have access or taxpayers should pay for them, and this is labeled as censorship.
If you apply this groomer's definition of banning books to all books, New Hampshire's libraries and librarians (and yours, too) are the single greatest censorship threat in existence. (Related: Actually, Libraries Are The Problem)
Don't believe me, search their catalog. Plenty of books are missing—scores, thousands, perhaps millions of them. The New Hampshire State Library, for example, is the home of Saint Melinda Atwood, whose nomination for Chief censor was wrongfully pulled because a few near-do-well parents and citizens expressed concern about her connections to the pedophiles running the American Library Association.
But, New Hampshire's Library has only one of 'Grok Contributor Ian Underwood's sixteen authored titles. Books that include subjects specific to New Hampshire.
Including the Kindle catalog (and they are all available on Kindle).
"Banned!" Censored!
You can search a range of authors, start on the political right, and find one or none of their books, all the others having been "banned."
Or try nonpolitical titles: there are 45 Dr. Suess books, but the NH State Library only lists ten. Where are the others? Are they absent because you needed room for ‘A Queer and Pleasant Danger’ or ‘Raising My Rainbow’?'
Banned!" Censored!
This censorship is both systemic and epidemic. As an Assistant vice whatever her title is) librarian, Mindy Atwood has had a qualified and accredited front-row seat to all this book “banning," so it amuses me whenever someone claims she was wrongfully "unconsidered" for the head librarian role. Atwood is a serial book banner despite every one of these texts being available for purchase online, delivered in digital format immediately or in physical form as early as the next day.
So, here is a dangerous thought. Deciding what books to carry is a decision for local taxpayers and parents (and their librarians) and is neither banning nor censorship.
That seems right, which means the people who will dishonestly shout censorship or call it banning books (mainly to keep age-inappropriate material accessible to children) are either idiots or groomers.
Possibly both.
The head of ALA is a self-proclaimed socialist. Our school left the organization. They all need dues too! I agree that every librarian censors books. There is really no solution as to who picks the books.