Liberals have always been advocates of freedom of thought. The left, not so much. <\/p>\n
I’m old enough to remember when liberals said people had a duty to buy and read banned books. For example, see this 1999 article from The Baltimore Sun<\/i>. <\/p>\n
There’s a civilized duty to buy and read banned books; Even the youngest reader — especially the youngest — is nourished by the forbidden mystery.<\/a> <\/p>\n Powells, which is a famous lefty bookstore in Portland, celebrates Banned Book Week, and has a page devoted to banned books<\/a>. But for some crazy reason I can’t find When Harry Became Sally<\/i> on their site. It is, as you probably know, the book Amazon doesn’t want you to read.<\/a> <\/p>\n The left in America used to be controlled by liberals. Now it’s controlled by authoritarian progressive wackos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Liberals have always been advocates of freedom of thought. The left, not so much. I’m old enough to remember when liberals said people had a duty to buy and read banned books. For example, see this 1999 article from The Baltimore Sun. There’s a civilized duty to buy and read banned books; Even the youngest … Continue reading “On the duty to read banned books”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}