There are large numbers of people in this country who want to ban books. They decide which books to target based on content they don't want other people to read, whether it be children, or other adults.
This is a very dangerous path upon which to tread. Targeting books and deciding to keep them out of the hands of other is only one step away from what happened in Germany in 1933.
20,000 books were burned by the Nazis. How long will it be before people here decide these books are so unworthy of existing in physical form that they start holding book burnings?
We already have white supremacists proudly marching the streets. Should we take the next step in our country toward a regime that believed in a caste system that vilified people and destroyed written works based on the content and how those in charge felt they might affect the minds of people who read them?
I don't think we're far from book burning here in this country. I believe if those who have their say could do it, they already would have begun. Books that have taught the greatest lessons of tolerance, examples of hate, questioning authority, and acceptance of others are being banned and I believe would be burned if it weren't possible to access them online. So far, there's no way to stop that.
Until more of us are willing to band together and raise our voices, this type of suppression will only continue. Voting is key, but so is communication. We must tell each other, share the voices and messages of others who can say it better than we can.
We cannot allow them to win.
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