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The left's fake "banned books"

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One of my favorite examples of left-wing drama queenery is the occasional bookstore display of "banned books," not a single one of which any American would have the slightest difficulty obtaining from even the most mainstream outlets.

Well, someone named "Dua Lipa" has just launched a collection of 100 such books in Portugal's Livraria Lello bookstore.

A sympathetic description of the collection notes that it "also includes books that may never have been formally banned but have nevertheless questioned existing structures of power or the suppression of individual and collective voices, making room for those whose stories others have tried to erase."

I feel certain you already know, without even looking at the list, that the alleged "stories others have tried to erase" are from so-called "marginalized groups" whose concerns, far from being in any way marginalized, dominate Western news and societies, have turned the Western legal system upside down, and are the subject of ceaseless sympathetic media portrayals.

One of the criteria for these banned books is "removed from school curricula." So if certain books were once taught, and then someone decides not to teach them anymore, this constitutes "an effort to deny someone, somewhere, the chance to read them."

Everything with these people is projection: if they'd like to know what it's actually like for students to be "denied" a chance to read a book, try walking in our shoes for even ten minutes -- no textbook I favor would get past 95 percent of school committees in America.

A photo circulating on X shows Lipa holding copies of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. My old friend John Carney writes, "The 'banned book' she’s holding was not only a 6-season series on Hulu, owned by the biggest media companies in history, it also spawned a young adult spinoff series. It’s on many high school summer reading lists and is available in every general bookstore in America."

Without looking, do you suppose there is a single title in her collection about a trivial little thing called Covid, which turned the world upside down and regarding which dissident views were routinely suppressed? Oh, my dear reader, that is not the kind of thing Dua Lipa has in mind. Why, you are supposed to listen to the authorities, citizen! 

For that matter, can anyone waltz into a bookstore and find a copy of The Camp of the Saints? And yet you'll never guess: that one didn't make the collection, either. Unmasking Antifa, by Andy Ngo, is another good example: the book faced intense pressure campaigns against bookstores, some of which caved to the pressure and would not stock it in their brick-and-mortar stores.

Is that true of any of the books on the Dua Lipa list?

One user on X got it exactly right: "Anything the left considers to be a 'banned book' has its own neat section at the front of every mainstream bookstore; meanwhile, anything the right considers to be a 'banned book' costs upwards of $1K at some online retailer with a user interface that hasn’t been updated since 1998."

Now of course you don't need as much formal suppression of books when nobody reads in the first place. I think about all the parents who make a big public to-do about how important education is, because they know that's what they're supposed to say, but in practice if they themselves read at all it's a paperback novel they got at the drug store.

And if people don't read, their brains wind up being a collection of platitudes and slogans.

I've been talking to you this week about Scott Horton, the author of very important books that contradict the claims of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment (which is bipartisan; Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush can sup in happy concord on these issues).

We cannot have a reasonable discussion of these matters because so many people's brains have been warped by propaganda, and their views are cartoons.

Well, although I highly recommend Scott's books, he has supplemented them with his fantastic new Scott Horton Academy, where Scott teaches you directly, at any time of day or night, and which is bursting with brand new truth-telling offerings (all of which are included when you join).

It also has a super-convenient app you can use to consume the content.

To commemorate the brand new courses Scott has just added, until midnight tonight coupon code WOODS gets you a bigger discount than usual, but then the offer expires:

 
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