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Hi. The free speech absolutists on the American Right really love banning books. They want you to think that people and history they don't like don't exist.

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Book Bans Are For Weenies - PATREON

Hi. The free speech absolutists on the American Right really love banning books. They want you to think that people and history they don't like don't exist.

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Lucy

When a SMN video is 59:29, do we consider it a short video still?

callahanh14

Ahhh the Comstock act. What creepy weirdo losers. Hope someone writes a book about how much they suck

ThoughtExperiment

I had the task of defending slavery in Global studies, but it was Greek slavery so not entirely racist (and somewhat gay!). Happily i got destroyed.

Josh V.

Oh Cody, we all want to own a home, but we never will in SoCal

Fart

Don't ban books, but maybe ban Expiatory Goat?

AEPSchmitt

I love Vonnegut <3 Currently reading 'Galapagos'. I used to listen to The Vonneguys after finishing each of his books for the first time. Great podcast!

Cory Hammerschlag

When did Schmidty the Clam start writing for you guys?! SMN seems like a perfect outlet for him to write about things that are still incredibly fascinating, but not so much "secret" as they are "alarming"

Chibigodzilla

IIRC, Comstock is still technically on the books, it was just made unenforceable by Griswold v Connecticut (and possibly others).

Derek Richardson

Springfield MA has quite a few nods to William Pynchon. Parts of the city are named after him and there's a prominent statue of him in the downtown

Shane Azevedo

i think you'd be great on double dare

Eric Herde

Katy Stoll a town in Texas

Lisa Coston Critz

I work in a library that is one pretty large room. Our children's section is separated from our young adult section by a bookshelf and from the adult fiction section by enough space for a wheelchair to fit through. We're barely an afterthought for our county and we all make minimum wage. We can barely afford to buy a few new books every year. If this law that requires libraries to pay people who complain happened in my state, in my little conservative town in which I am one of maybe a few hundred liberals out of 9,000 people, our library would be bankrupt in less than a week.