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Don’t get me started on the people in my neck of the woods who forbid reading Harry Potter because it has magic in it…I’m like:

“Trust me, if I thought it was possible to perform charms after reading fiction don’t you think I’d have used ‘Silencio’ on you already, First Amendment rights be damned?”

This tweet is just... Odd. Very odd.

Like... You live like this? You write like this? You think like this??

i am not a fan of book banning for almost any reason (and even then it should be centered more around letting people use their discretion to say “um maybe kids shouldn’t be reading erotica” than “this topic is ugly and opens the door to too many questions so we just shouldn’t talk about it”) but so much of book banning revolves around this very idea, that if a book so much as mentions a difficult topic, we shouldn’t talk about it, rather than the way the topic itself is handled

"this work is problematic because of how it handles [subject]": reasonable premise for media criticism

"this work is problematic because it depicts [subject]": do not pass go do not collect $200 this is, as a general rule, a functionally reactionary and conservative argument