Alabama library mistakenly adds children's book to "explicit" list because of author's name

I mean, it’s Alabama. You cant expect someone to actually read the title and plot of a book if the author is so “Gay” when there’s so much sister fucking to do!

Kirsten Brassard, Gay’s publicist at Groundwood Books, said the episode sends a “hateful message” coming from a public library,

“This proves, as always, that censorship is never about limiting access to this book or that one. It is about sending the message to children that certain ideas — or even certain people — are not worthy of discussion or acknowledgment or consideration,” Brassard told the news outlet.

Preach!

i mean that's basically as stupid as the real filter

Then it’s a shitty library.

Cataloging is an important job and a real librarian takes it seriously. Whether they create the catalog or get records from somewhere else, it should be triple checked and have hands on it at least twice.

More importantly, we don’t censor or classify/rate books.

Reminds me of the time the Scunthorpe problem reared its head in a conservative newspaper and sprinter Tyson Gay was autocorrected to Tyson Homosexual 😄

Read Me a Story, Stella (explicit) - Feat. Marie-Louise Gay

If they could read, I’m sure they’d be mad.

I see no one RTFA, the book was electronically flagged, and removed from the review list after the mistake was uncovered.

"mistakenly" is carrying a lot of weight there.