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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is sad how much wonderful literature will be cancelled. All because younger generations have not been taught critical thinking skills and because everything has become about feelings, not logic, facts or intellect. [/quote]

What literature has been cancelled in the United States?[/quote]

NP. There was a thread a few days/weeks ago asking for book recommendations for an elementary child interested in history. Someone recommended the Little House series but felt the need to spend half of the post apologizing for the offensive content and saying that if you could get past that, they were actually good books. I had to read the post twice to believe it.

I agree with the OP that the censorship and cancelling is out of control. [/quote]

How is your example censoring?  Is there some new definition of censoring I am unfamiliar with?  [/quote]

These books are no longer listed on the recommended reading lists. So yes, I call that censorship. There were also yearly awards named after the author that were renamed due to public pressure, which is essentially cancelling her since she's dead for more than half a century and I'm not sure what else they could do to cancel her.[/quote]

Who makes these recommended reading lists?  The government?  If so, you can vote out the people making these choices.  Although I am fairly confident that any govt recommended reading list is unlikely to have much effect of people’s choices.

If it is a group of consumers that have come together and make recommendations, you can and should come up with other recommended reading lists. And some will even follow your recs. [/quote]

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