Attempts to ban books increase in the United Kingdom while American groups reach foreign

British librarians see the impact of American censorship attempts

Librarians through the pond report an increase in requests to remove the books from their shelvesA change they attribute to the growing influence of pressure groups based on the United States. As in the United States, many targeted books to prohibit the center on LGBTQ +themes. Currently, most challenges of the book in the United Kingdom come from individuals and small groups, but the librarians declare that they are harassed by members of the groups based in the United States online, and a librarian found the propaganda of a group based in the United States on its desk. While library professionals in the United Kingdom indicate that the situation is not (yet) as disastrous as in the United States, the world media ecosystem and The rise of far -right groups in the world Make it a serious threat to intellectual freedom. You would be right to ask yourself if Moms for Liberty (named a group of hatred of the Southern Poverty Law Center) is one of the American groups which now reach abroad. The guardian does not specify.

Pete Hegseth orders critical books on the deleted racism of the library of the naval academy

As an article on social media says, Maya Angelou is absent, but Mein Kamf can stay. Citing an executive decree of January 29 by Donald Trump, the defense secretary Pete Hegseth recently asked the naval academy to remove books with themes of diversity, equity and inclusion of the Nimitz library of the school. Politically named leaders of the Navy department decided which books Finally drawing 381 titles from the shelves. Among the deleted books (See the full list) are Maya Angelou’s I know why the cage bird sings,, How to be anti-racist By Ibram X. Kendi, KKK studies and Holocuast stories. It is a move of academics and alumni of the Naval Academy calls “a case study in ideological censorship”. Like Risa Brooks, professor of political science at Marquette University, says:

“I think it does not make students a bad service to suggest that they cannot manage difficult ideas or face the ideas with which they disagree … We form these people to go out and order troops and lead people potentially at war. We want them to be resilient, because what they are going to face is much worse than a book on a bookstore with a title that may make them uncomfortable. ”

This is a foreseeable development of an administration which knows that it will benefit from the ignorance of citizens. An encouraging development: many former students of the Naval Academy, including former very high civil servants, Express themselves and even work with local bookstores To make the titles prohibited available to the aspirants of the Academy. Gentlemen, welcome to resistance.

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