#18: Stop Banning Books
Look, I’m against banning books. I am all for free access to information, and I agree that many books people want to be banned are ones that are very important for people to read. That being said, I’m not sure I believe that your child has come up with such a well-thought-out and well-articulated defense of reading books of this sort.

Also, that’s a really simplistic and unhelpful view of reading difficult books. You can feel bad or uncomfortable reading a book even if you’re not “a white person who wants to do bad things again.” Maybe the topic makes you feel sad or uneasy, even though you know why it’s important. A message of “Only racists feel uncomfortable reading about uncomfortable topics!” is just weird.
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