I see that Columbia County in Southeast Washington is going to vote on permanently closing its library based on the opinion of some of the citizens of the county that some of the content within is “sexualizing children.” Wasn’t book banning, which is what this would be, one of the strategies of the Nazis in 1930s Germany? We grow ever closer to the fascist state that seemingly too many on the right are aiming for. This country continues to make me sadder by the day.
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