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2026-03-22 16:52 UTC

@rhelune@todon.eu I wonder how many of us have a story of having a book taken from us, or a book stolen, or a book banned from their library, because someone disagreed with the content. Mine was having my copy of Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" vanish while I was in school; given the number of fundamentalist Christians in the school, it didn't take a genius to figure out what had happened.

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@rhelune@todon.eu 2026-03-22 17:09

@NicolaElle@chaosfem.tw I'm so sorry 😞 Taking a book away is often like banning one from seeing a friend 😥 The only good thing is that a book being banned makes people want to read it even more. I do not remember such a situation from my childhood, but there was a situation at a previous workplace. A colleague and I were about to leave it. We had never met in person before because I had been refusing to return to the office. I came by (with an FFP3 mask) and left a gift wrapped used book I had read on her desk, because it was relevant to her situation (I had to ask the bosses which desk was hers). It was "Snakes in Suits, When Psychopaths Go to Work" by Robert Hare. When she came to the office, she unwrapped it and thanked me. Some days later she informed me that the book had disappeared.

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