What's up with this weird modern aestheticisation (a new word I made up to mean something becoming an aesthetic rather than the substance) of so-called banned books? Every time I see a "banned" book it's something insanely popular you can literally just order online or at a bookstore. Truly, TRULY banned books would be like chemical warfare guides or uranium tutorials or something.
>>25296576mostly has to do with how public and school libraries are funded/operated in the US imo. the federal govt hasn't banned literature since the 1930s, but every now and then some county library board or school system board will get all fired up and remove books from the shelves. imo mostly symbolic these days but doesn't bode well and I'm averse to book bans generally speaking>chemical warfare guides or uranium tutorialsyou can find these online
>>25296576They've done this since the 90s when I was a kid.It's just so liberals can keep up the fantasy of them being some sort of brave rebels. And obviously the most banned thing is wrongthink: racism, sexism, etc. Those books don't even get written because the censorship starts farther up the line, and the few that do get written don't get published, don't get distributed, etc.
>>25296576is this a real penguin collection? cringe lol
>>25296576>aestheticisationcommodification, from commode meaning toilet
>>25296633If Shakespeare gets to invent words then so do I
>>25296576>What's up with this weird modern aestheticisation (a new word I made up to mean something becoming an aesthetic rather than the substance) of so-called banned books?you're 70 years too late to be the first to think of the word Aestheticization
>>25296638NOOOOOO
>>25296576>aestheticisationCommodification. >a new word I made upA better word already exists. You should read more.
>>25296633>early lifeEvery time. Every fucking time.
are you autistic OP? they're obviously books that were once considered controversial but have now found their way into the canonit's really not that hard to understand
>>25296683Hmmm, strange how they're all leftist works
>>25296576When is Penguin going to start publishing loli in protest of banned books?
>>25296751>penguin edition of kodomo no jikan
>ask for banned book on the banned book subreddit>get banned
>>25296707boys.... is lolita woke?
>>25296576They want to feel like they're the oppressed resistance while being the dominant culture
>>25296576To address your Reddit filename and Tikslop question, that collection has been on sale for more than 20 years.
>>25296576When will Penguin finally release a collection of all Peter Sotos works?
>>25296683so you're saying they're not banned books and were never banned books, yet you think it's fine to call them banned books? ok, retard.
Lefties need to feel like they are the underdogs even when they have overtaken practically all western institutions since the 1970s. It's like women who get fucked by a new dude every second day but would be offended beyond words if someone called them a slut because in their minds they deflected all agency to the men they had sex with, like it all just happened to them. Practice is one thing, self-image is another.
Listen chud we support free speech and read banned booksUh but not THOSE books, those ones should stay bannedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/bannedbooks/comments/1o4dhpr/banned_books_iceberg_chart_eightyfive_different/
>>25296576>A new word I made upYou didn’t, you unread mong. Fuck off back to /pol/, rajeesh
>>25298998>overtaken practically all western institutions since the 1970s
