Removing Books From Libraries Often Takes Debate. But There’s a Quieter Way.
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Removing Books From Libraries Often Takes Debate. But There’s a Quieter Way.
This erosion isn’t accidental—it’s often political. Silencing art is a time-tested tool of authoritarianism. Erasing books and censoring creativity are not just acts of control—they are acts of cultural amnesia.
To forget art is to forget who we are.
To forget art is to forget who we are.
Art as A Necessity: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Human Survival
One of the harbingers of autocratic takeovers is an attempt to control writers and artists, either by censoring them and dictating to them what sort of art they should produce – we saw a certain amount of that coming from the so-called academic left in North America and Britain over the past decade, twinned with online mobbing generally known as... See more
Margaret Atwood • Handmaid's Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools
it is a great injustice that the right has developed an ideological monopoly on discussions of so-called “cancel culture”, so much so that it feels vaguely right-wing to be discussing it in any capacity at all. we need to be having conversations about this dynamic as it relates to abolitionist academics being pushed out of office, journalists who
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The Burning of America's Library
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