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[quote=Anonymous]https://slate.com/culture/2022/08/book-banning-republicans-gender-queer-obscenity-supreme-court.html

"At the end of August, in a courtroom in Virginia Beach, a judge will decide whether to put two books on trial for obscenity.

This is a strange sentence to write, and I expect a strange sentence to read, because these days books don’t go on trial for obscenity. "

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"Rather than demanding that school boards or librarians remove books, the current case takes the books to court, using an obscure Virginia law that would allow the judge,[b] if she found the books obscene, to ban bookstores, libraries, and even private citizens from selling or sharing them, everywhere in Virginia."[/b]

The two books in question are [i]Gender Queer[/i] and "[i]A Court of Mist and Fury[/i] [which] is a mainstream (straight) fantasy/romance about a human transformed into a faerie, the second in a hugely successful YA series by Sarah J. Maas."

There is no way even the right wing reactionaries on this board can agree with this? Right? How did we get here where we re trying to actually ban books again, for real?[/quote]

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