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Julianne Moore’s children’s book and a book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg under review by the Department of Justice (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 days ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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Last Monday, the Department of Defense circulated a memo stating that it is examining library books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics”. After access to all library books was suspended for a week for a review, a “small number of items” were identified and have been kept for “further review”, it said.

Other books that are part of the “compliance review” include No Truth Without Ruth by Kathleen Krull, about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to sit on the US supreme court. Books removed from library shelves have been relocated to “the professional collection for evaluation with access limited to professional staff”.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's hot in here. It must be at least 451 degrees...

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

233°C, the autoignition temperature of paper.

I'm sure Bradbury would love to see it used as a guide instead of a warning..

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 6 points 6 days ago

Nice.

We are very lucky that text only books have incredibly low file sizes, and can be easily backed up in thousands of places. They can burn our hard copies, but they can never destroy our books.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Must be a fire, man.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 27 points 6 days ago

Note: I edited the title because this is way more nefarious than the article leads you to believe. The fucking DOJ is reviewing library books.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 6 days ago

"discriminatory equity"