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   Alfie Kohn (alfiekohn@sciences.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 02:30:33 JST Alfie Kohn

   Those bent on whitewashing history, banning LGBTQ-friendly literature, and otherwise imposing their reactionary values on the rest of us know that a little intimidation goes a long way because educators then get busy "self-censoring, well beyond the most controversial books":
   https://slate.com/life/2024/09/banned-books-week-schools-censorship.html

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     Alfie Kohn (alfiekohn@sciences.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 02:30:31 JST Alfie Kohn

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     Another example: The new Trump biopic "The Apprentice" almost didn't get released because all the movie studios were so afraid of angering Trump. "You think that things could be banned in North Korea or Russia or certain places, but you don't think that will ever happen here," co-star Jeremy Strong told the NY Times. "It's a dark harbinger that it even nearly happened."

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     Alfie Kohn (alfiekohn@sciences.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 02:30:32 JST Alfie Kohn

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     Speaking of self-censorship, this warning by Timothy Snyder also applies to newspaper owners afraid of antagonizing - and thereby acting as enablers of - an incoming vindictive authoritarian.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.