I'm a parent, what if these books don't bother me and I want them to stay? Who decide what is appropriate?
First they came for the books they thought not appropriate...
If they "came for" all the books in a particular library, you (as a parent) could check the book you wanted out from another library, or buy it from a bookstore, or download it from a sketchy drive link you find on google, or recover it from an airdrop of literary material dropped into your occupied zone.
These books are "banned" in the same way that Starbucks red cups are "banned" in July.
*picking a side here will be left as an exercise to the reader
The "came for" was a reference to the holocaust [1]. It starts with books in this library but OP was implying these people will escalate to a total book ban. And when books are burned, humans will soon follow [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
[2] https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/where-they-bu...
Saying that parents can go to a bookstore or to another library misses the point.
Big deal. We already shape opinions by having a vocal minority successfully shout down dissenting opinions.
From the article it's hard to tell whether this is from a vocal minority of the libraries target audience, or a majority opinion.
https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship...
So does blocking websites. Should school computers also provide unrestricted internet access? Or provide safer filtered access blocking a wide range of the most 'harmful' sites?
'Banned books' sounds dramatic, but is it any worse than blocking social media, porn, and gambling sites on the school network?
One website blocked here in Katy ISD is The Trevor Project, which is a suicide prevention support site for LGBTQ youth.
I strongly encourage you to visit this site for 2 minutes and imagine having to explain what policy this site violates.
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
This is a small group of busybodies trying to declare that their "boundary of appropriateness" should apply to all students. That's just a pleasant form of thoughtcrime.
A simple solution would be a third category between "appropriate" and "inappropriate " - call it "borderline" - and have an opt in policy for children for these books.
Letting each parent decide for their own child what is appropriate is fine.
What's happening here is not.
Source: Texas school parent, weirded out by casual fascism
If you genuinely care about child suicide, you'd want to keep children well away from social media for as long as humanly possible. It's harmful enough even to adults!
The point is for these materials to be widely available. Is there a "banned" book that isn't available on the internet for free? No.