— The Observer“The current wave of book banning sweeping the country has created a chilling effect on our education system and the purchasing of books in our libraries,” Jones wrote in her book That Librarian . “This is a huge movement that has been in the works for a while. It is well funded and well co ordinated. It is about marginali sing and erasing cultures and groups of people; it is about defunding public institutions; it is about dumbing down society for a more easily led population; and it is about using libraries for political gain .”
Replicated under Fair Use from ‘There is no political power without power over the archive’ by The Observer.