In one of the greatest faux democracies in the world, Big Brother is saving us from all turning into gay penguins.
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I've been following this for a while. Not only have they removed the two copies of this book from their nation-statewide library system, but more important, they are not allowing someone to buy them or will not donate them to other libraries.
They are going to "pulp" them. This is obviously a largely symbolic move, as the book isn't banned in Singapore, just from the public libraries. Even in the fundie-driven USA, the libraries and school districts haven't succumbed to this kind of pressure. Every case involving this title that I've read about has ended with the librarians and the library boards essentially telling the puritan bigots to go stuff themselves. But in Singapore, where if you ask someone where to find an underaged prostitute the response is "Boy or girl? Vietnamese? Fillipino? Burmese? Thai? Cambodian?", they're going to protect "family values", by golly.
http://ift.tt/VZ48ml
I've been following this for a while. Not only have they removed the two copies of this book from their nation-statewide library system, but more important, they are not allowing someone to buy them or will not donate them to other libraries.
They are going to "pulp" them. This is obviously a largely symbolic move, as the book isn't banned in Singapore, just from the public libraries. Even in the fundie-driven USA, the libraries and school districts haven't succumbed to this kind of pressure. Every case involving this title that I've read about has ended with the librarians and the library boards essentially telling the puritan bigots to go stuff themselves. But in Singapore, where if you ask someone where to find an underaged prostitute the response is "Boy or girl? Vietnamese? Fillipino? Burmese? Thai? Cambodian?", they're going to protect "family values", by golly.
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