Showing posts with label Tintin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tintin. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Swedish Library Bans Tintin, Then Does Not

The Swedish library of SomethingIcantpronounce banned the books of Tintin for issues of "Afro-phobic" and other race issues.  During Banned Books Week.  Needless to say, a media poopstorm from around the world zoomed in and they redacted the decision.  Librarian Steve Clickthelinkforhisrealname said that while the issues were relevant, banning the book was a bad decision.

Sooooo.... Yeah.  You really can not do that anymore.  Banning books, I mean.  You can disagree with them, you can not read them, you can even put them so far back in the library that it takes a road map, GPS and a Sherpa to find them, but you cannot ban books.  As much as I dislike the Twilight and 50 Shade books, I still check them out to any and everyone that asks for them because that is what a library is for.  Intellectual freedom, even if it is stupid, should be a library's goal.  Taking materials away from your patrons, researchers, students, and crazy teenage girls is wrong.  I hope that's the last time I have to say that, but probably not.

Tintin OUT, then IN at Swedish Library