In order to make these lists they cast the net very wide, they define "banned" as meaning "some angry Christian dad in a small town complained to a school about this book and the principal agreed to look into it"
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Like I legitimately actually want Lost Girls, which was a high-profile example from a famous creator that people really did fight bitterly over in the comics world, to be centered in discussions like this Let's go ahead and hash it out instead of dancing around it
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Alan Moore threw down this gauntlet about "free speech" -- "I'm a grown man who fantasizes about 14-year-old boys and girls fucking and I don't care who knows it and I'm rich and famous enough to sell a book about it" And the world at large just... kind of tiptoed past it
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Like we all just kind of pretend it didn't happen when discussing "Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen" and let it continue to be a "comics nerd" thing because the legal and moral issues involved legitimately will blow up many communities who all thought they had the same politics
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(See also: Half of the "hottest" content on AO3, and all of the content that AO3 explicitly fundraises for so they can have a legal team on call in case a government sends them a takedown notice for obscenity)
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A truly insufferable amount of my career in the name-recognition sense comes from being on the “omg he’s the epitome of kids these days who want CENSORSHIP and also he’s CRAZY” side as, apparently, the scariest thing people with tenure have ever seen, because I’m v pro-warnings
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One could make the argument that whatever I’m doing from now on is just balancing the cosmic scales in terms of making it obvious for everyone that I have no friends or allies on the “other” side too
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