Fritzkreig t1_jdlcqpi wrote on March 25, 2023 at 6:21 AM

I think banning books is super stupid, but I would think that the percentage would be smaller than back in the day when something like Ulysses was published, just due to the amount of books written today!

Disparition_2022 t1_jdr5jwv wrote on March 26, 2023 at 3:24 PM

According to the article, this "record high" is only in the context of the ALA's data, which only goes back 20 years. Ulysses was published a little over a hundred years ago. It would be interesting to see data from earlier periods of history.

It's also worth noting that Ulysses wasn't banned in the sense of being challenged at a local library by a bunch of angry parents in the sense that things happen today. Rather, it was completely blocked from being imported into the US by the federal government. I don't know if that level of ban could or would happen today.