The ABA have certainly come a long way since 2017, when their theme for their “banned books week” (where they promote books with a history of being censored) was “Our Right To Read”
“What bookstores do at their best is provoke conversations and look at things outside their normal comfort zone. That’s what good books do, and what good bookstores do,” said Robert Sindelar, managing partner of Third Place Books and president of the American Booksellers Association Board of Directors.
Third Place Books’ staff designer tapped into the zeitgeist to create a display featuring a typeface that brings to mind Nazi Germany and propaganda from that era, Sindelar said.
“We had an offended customer who said, ‘Why did you chose this Mein Kampf font for this?’” said Sindelar, who replied with a reminder that Nazis burned books they didn’t like and that evoking that past is a deterrent to repeating it.
“It is jarring and uncomfortable to look at those images. That was the point,” Sindelar said.
Like Sindelar, booksellers across the country are readying Banned Book Week displays, events, and social media campaigns designed to spark debate and reflection about the nature of censorship and the rights of citizens to select their own books”
www.bookweb.org/news/booksellers-fête-free-speech-banned-books-week-100917
Or from this position in 2003, when they encouraged booksellers to tell people telling them they shouldn’t sell particular books to sod off
“Everybody is entitled to an opinion, and by choosing where you spend or don't spend your money you make a statement. There is a greater good, however, it seems to me, and that is the public's right to information”
www.bookweb.org/news/paddling-both-sides-canoe
I mean come on. Even if you think Schrier is wrong, misguided, evil or whatever, you can’t possibly think that the progressive people in this are the ones calling information on the availability of books “violence” and suggesting people need to be protected not just from the ideas in the book, but from receiving information that a book that contains those ideas is available! That’s nuts!