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Xanthro-While I don't like it, it is also not terrifying. Local communities always have issues with what the libraries stock, that is because the local government usually pays for it. Sometimes people don't like paying for what they don't like.
Agreed, it's not necessarily terrifying on a local level (unless you happen to be a local). And not necessarily liking what you're paying for is part of the price of our way of life.
However, having somebody with a woefully uneducated, fundamentalist book-burning mindset with an elevated potential of becoming an appointed president of the united states...
THAT is terrifying
-- RenMan53
So, we move from a rather common occurrence, dispute over what books a public library will carry, and that gets transformed into "woefully uneducated fundamentalist book-burning mindset"
Quite the long travel there. Exactly how many books did Palin have banned? That's right, ZERO.
She inquired, she was turned down. Even if you buy the argument that the librarian was fired for this, Palin backed down over town outrage.
Last I looked, the President or Vice President has exactly ZERO powers to regulate what books are in local libraries, or what books you have access to.
