The US ultra-right should leave the UK alone!!!

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I was going to use a rude expletive in the thread title to truly reflect my thoughts on this. I've known about this insidious creeping influence for a little while but reading the article in the link below has made me livid. We are not going to be censored by foreign actors who understand nothing about our culture. I have often observed a false sense of familiarity among Brits regarding American culture but it goes both ways, and this attempt at dragging us along into the dark pit of ignorance should stay the fuck away from here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/librarians-in-uk-increasingly-asked-to-remove-books-as-influence-of-us-pressure-groups-spreads

This obsession with getting women (always women) is creepy and global. Same rumblings in Russia, Hungary, Australia and latelyTurkey.

It’s gross.

Turkish women are pushing back though (in fact, not just women, as decent men are also affected by those tyrannical regimes). I'll always remember a conversation I had with an Iranian mature student living in the UK who vividly described how he hated to see his wife so miserable - and how the whole set up was shit and unfulfilling for him too.