/lit/ - Literature

>>21809685
It's been ramped up considerably in the past couple of years and has become an explicit focus of "culture war" type mopes. Do you live under a rock?

>>21774683
They're also burning them as part of macabre, public spectacles. But you stick your head in the sand if it makes you feel better son.

Why are the far left and far right falling over themselves to censor books, ban books, close libraries, burn books, ban books for prisoners, persecute authors who they don't like, etc etc.?
Nobody even reads that much anymore and books do not have much influence on people unless they get adapted into a movie or TV series.
I understand nutjobs getting upset about tik tok, Twitter etc but they're wasting their time and resources banning books.

The right are burning books, banning them and shutting down libraries. The left are rewriting Roald Dhal.
How did the lunatics take-over their respective asylums? Both the left and right have gone batshit insane. Why do centrists never create click-bait?
There must be non-partisan books that detail what happened.

>>21676550

>magashit book burning ritual.