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What are your thoughts on the "Banned Books" feed that has been circulating on Facebook?

There was book called “Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.” It was written in 1748. It was banned in 1821, and again in 1963. It was the last book ever banned by the American government, and it is no longer banned.

Quite often, if you research a little, the books that are supposedly “banned” have simply been taken off of some school’s required reading list. If a majority of parents want this, isn’t it their right to make it so? The book is still available, student’s just aren’t required to read it.

So what are your thoughts on this? Are they making a mountain out of a mole hill, like FB loves to do?

Wiki list of banned books

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