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shish_mish@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 25 days ago

Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads

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shish_mish@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 25 days ago
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Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
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    Guardian-reading lefty here. You got any links to actual transphobic articles in the Guardian itself? I’ve been reading it for years, and have never noticed anything like that, particularly it being a stance. Would be very disappointed in them if so.

    That link says that there have been 1100 articles in the Guardian, and also well-known right wing rags the Times, Mail and Telegraph, “most of” which are attacks. Bizarre to group those four papers together; one of them is very much not like the others. I would believe it of the other three, of course.

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      Here is some news coverage of what’s going on in the Guardian. Mind, some of the articles are a little older, but the overall situation hasn’t improved. The only thing that has changed is the normalization of the transphobic content the Guardian has put out over the years.

      The articles below contain links to various Guardian articles

      • Hundreds Of Staff At The Guardian Have Signed A Letter To The Editor Criticising Its “Transphobic Content”, March 20
      • Protesters demand the Guardian ‘stop platforming transphobia’ outside newspaper’s HQ, October 21
      • Trans Journalists Pull Out of Guardian Newspaper’s Pride Coverage, June 22
      • Columnist James Wong leaves The Observer and claims ‘institutionalised transphobia’, February 23

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