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The reason to ban books is so that people that wouldn't normally cross paths with that book will never be affected by it.

Book bans are not designed to stop people that know about these books and the ideas they contain. They know that those people will still find them and read them.

> I found plenty of information about being gay 20ish years ago in high school.

Lots of kids didn't and they don't know they didn't and that is the point.

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I mean I get that point and I get what they think they are doing.

But (well until the last couple of years) you would have still seen "different" people on tv and in movies.

And I get that the point is to make it so the kids are not being exposed to different ideas and beliefs. I am just struggling to understand how that is actually a realistic idea in todays world.

Because they aren't stopping here. Project 2025's discussion of age restriction for pornographic websites spends all of its time talking about websites with LGBT content, not actual porn. This is a movement to hide all queerness from young people. School libraries are just a foothold.

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