Illinois bans book bans

Finally a good news story, out of Illinois: “Book bans are about censorship, marginalizing people, marginalizing ideas and facts. Regimes banned books, not democracies,” Pritzker, a Democrat, said at a bill signing ceremony at a Chicago library. “We refuse to let a vitriolic strain of White nationalism coursing through our country determine whose histories are told, not in Illinois.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/12/us/illinois-public-libraries-schools-book-bans/in...

It will be interesting to see how this is enforced, given the legislation is phrased as "books removed for partisan reasons". More concerning is how effective such legal efforts will be: the fact it is deemed necessary is for me the biggest problem. That said, I am encouraged by this action taken, and the clear-headed framing of the problem -- White Supremacy.

>1 Cecrow:

Illinois did not “ban book bans”. What the legislation does is to require libraries to adopt the ALA’s Library Bill of Rights or draft one of their own if they want state funding.

If a library chooses not to accept state funding, they will be free to ban whatever they want.