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| I also am appalled by this. Went to their website and found this statement(seems pretty hypocritical of them to me).
"Censorship is a growing threat that infringes on our foundational rights. The year 2017 saw an increase in censorship attempts and a revitalized effort to remove books from communal shelves to avoid controversy.
Every year, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) publishes statistics about censorship attempts in U.S. schools and libraries, compiled from public challenges in the news and confidential reports submitted to the office. Usually these threats target literature but they sometimes venture beyond books, affecting DVDs, databases, displays, and art exhibits.
Below are resources and statistics about censorship incidents in 2017, with a focus on the Top 10 Challenged Books of 2017. This report is a snapshot of censorship, as OIF estimates that 82-97% of challenges remain unreported.
Censorship succeeds when no one talks about it; let’s make some noise."
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/NLW-Top10
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Good grief is nothing sacred Laura Ingalls Wilder in trouble?
