A new purging of books is sweeping the nation. In some cases, the books are not banned, just taken off school district's list of approved books.
Book banning is wrong, for the simple reason that it sometimes is done to suppress one political view or the other. Look throughout history how burning books was done to suppress political views, including how Adolph Hitler's book banning was part of his setting up the Third Reich.
These days, we also need to be concerned about how web sites are taken down, and how people are banned from Twitter and other social media platforms. And, we should also be concerned about efforts of those who oppose Critical Race Theory to outlaw information they deem harmful. And, we should be concerned about efforts to suppress history, such as the effort to not let the story of the race riot in Tulsa to be told.
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