While I was growing up, there was much todo about promoting “banned books” and otherwise opposing censorship (broadly defined).
Where the he11 did that go? or did the message get lost that “banned books” often are precisely because they ARE offensive and prone to eliciting violent response?
We now have ‘word burners’ (PC).
In the sixties and seventies the free speech movement loved protecting “offensive speech”. Now, not so much.
I disagree with you — I don’t think that was ever the message - at least not in America. We didn’t ban books because we thought people were going to riot and loot stores and murder other people. We banned books because we thought people would be corrupted by them. When we stopped thinking that we were in charge of other people’s decisions about what to believe, we stopped banning books.
Great point.
That used to be practically a religion for them, to whine about banned books.
But the simple truth is, the banned books they championed were invariably left leaning or otherwise against traditional values.
It’s a one way street for them.