If we open a quarrel between past and present,,the future will be lost

@athousandyoung said
Do you really think you cannot legally buy those books?

Of course not. Book bannings today are focused on removing literature from schools and libraries. After that leftwing ideologists are free to influence (i.e. intimidate) privately owned bookstores into removing books they do not approve.

Making books completely unavailable for anyone to get would be the last step in a long series of incremental changes. People who say, "That's ridiculous, that could never happen here" are kidding themselves. Anything that has happened or is happening (in China for example) can happen here if no one opposes it.

@averagejoe1 said
As we are teetering on tremendous issues (the future), is it wise to expend thought and energy and assets into past problems, such as reparations for slavery 150 years ago? That is he crux of the title of this thread.....when I discovered it, I didn't even give one whit of thought to statues. I was thinking about reparations, and the stuff Suzianne calls whataboutisms ...[text shortened]... who were not around 150 years ago. The future?...or, reparations? Churchill's quote is right on.

As we are teetering on tremendous issues (the future), is it wise to expend thought and energy and assets into past problems, such as reparations for slavery 150 years ago? That is he crux of the title of this thread.....when I discovered it, I didn't even give one whit of thought to statues. I was thinking about reparations, and the stuff Suzianne calls whataboutisms. (previous, past occurrences ).

I misunderstood the crux of your thread title, and assumed you were going in a different direction.

The effort(?) to institute reparations is (in my humble opinion) nothing more than an effort to keep 'white guilt' in play. It's almost funny (and a bit sad) to see white guys fall for this and join the chant against 'white privilege'.

Blacks occupy every economic and social set in the US. Can you imagine captains of industry and high ranking executives and middle income family men and women crying out for reparations? As though they had nothing better to do?
Crying out for reparations is a political ploy. It could only happen if approved (unchallenged) through legislative and executive action, and payments came from taxes rather than from verifiable descendents of slave owners to verifiable descendents of slaves.

@jimmac said
That's insane. if this is true then the world is sadder for it. Anyways, millions of copies will be saved digitally for when sanity returns.

He's full of BS. He thinks that because you can't assign Huck Finn to high schoolers because the book is full of the word "n***er" it's somehow been banned.

@athousandyoung said
He's full of BS. He thinks that because you can't assign Huck Finn to high schoolers because the book is full of the word "n***er" it's somehow been banned.

*gasp* Are you saying google lied to me? Now that I think about it, you're probably right. It's probably just a vast right wing conspiracy, no one is banning books of any kind. I mean really, only a flat-earther could believe a fantastical story like that.
But not me, no sir... I yam a educated man/person.

So don't bother googling 'recently banned books in the us' because google will lie to you too.

@lemon-lime said

...what books have been banned recently?

For books recently banned in the US, a quick internet search lists the following:

To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
The Catcher in the Rye
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Brave New World
Looking for Alaska
Catch-22
And Tango Makes Three
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Thirteen Reasons Why
Elmer Gantry

This one got my attention.
And the first thought crossing my mind was, "Who would want to discourage anyone (students in particular) from reading this book"?

(Wikipedia)
"Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in essay form, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final novel, Island (1962), the utopian counterpart. The novel is often compared to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).

In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World at number 5 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum, writing for The Observer, included Brave New World chronologically at number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 87 on The Big Read survey by the BBC."