Go, Read: Brigid Alverson At Robot 6 On Tintin In Winnipeg

Brigid Alverson has a nice write-up here about the Winnipeg Library returning Tintin In America to its shelves. The stories about a challege to the book first surfaced in March. The twist is that it's being returned to a shelf where an adult can get it, but not I guess kids just reading through things.

I think this is interesting set of issues, and I'm not sure that my impulses in terms of absolute free speech encompass all that I find compelling about what's involved here. There are a lot of older books, including a lot of classic comics, that don't meet the bare minimum of what you and I might expect in terms of attitudes towards different races and sexes and cultures where we would be automatically delighted to see them in a young person's backpack. I'm actually surprised we haven't seen more scorched earth rhetoric about simply leaving such books behind, but I certainly don't want that, either. I suspect we muddle through.
 
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