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My uncle told me '1984' was just boring sci-fi when I was a teen, but reading it after seeing news about textbook bans hit different.
He said it wasn't relevant, but seeing how the language in those bans mirrors the book's 'Newspeak' made his advice feel totally wrong. Anyone else have a banned book that suddenly made sense after a real-world event?
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caseys307mo ago
Exactly. That's the thing with those books, they're warnings. I read "Fahrenheit 451" in school and thought burning books was just a wild story. Then you see people trying to pull books off shelves for showing real history, and it clicks. It's not about the fire, it's about controlling what people are allowed to know.
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joseph_johnson7mo ago
But pulling some books for kids isn't the same as burning all of them.
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