• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    At a board meeting in October, one angry resident claimed her personal survey of the teen section revealed 60% of the books were “witchcraft.” Another said Gillette’s library had become an “indoctrination center.”

    No one should listen to these lunatics. Sadly, they make it imperative that we pay very. Lose attention.

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        I don’t think privatization of public goods is the best answer for this. I’d rather not let these individual private entities have so much power over a public resource. Don’t want to read it, fine. It’s not like they’ve got the Anarchist Cookbook for next week’s bookclub.

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          Also, if public knowledge is privatized and kept from these groups, it’d give them a more substantial platform to say they’re being marginalized and the system is working against them. The answer is to make sure youth are truly educated, and not simply indoctrinated into the ways of thinking their parents were. The youth needs to be taught how to form their own opinions rather than regurgitate whatever bs they have been fed