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The case against banning Craig Thompson's Blankets
Utah state legislator Ken Ivory likes burning books, and he's very much into dystopian censorship.
Utah state legislator Ken Ivory likes burning books, and he's very much into dystopian censorship. He doesn't like calling it that, of course, as he indicated in an opinion piece published Aug. 23 in the Deseret News . He implied we're all overreacting to Utah's new legislation banning books from public school libraries, and that we wouldn't dare print a description of any of the 13 banned books.
It was all vulgar pornography, and damaging to kids. He's lying to us. To illustrate that, I'd like to point to Craig Thompson's masterpiece Blankets , which made the list of publications banned from…
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