What the U.S. Can Learn From Apartheid-Era Book Bans in South Africa TC_Africa: SouthAfrica
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"Burger's Daughter" was first banned under the 1974 Publications Act and then unbanned. Gordimer, however, saw the lifting of the ban as a charade to make the apartheid regime look moreA Virginia court ruling also exposes the murky area between banning and unbanning.
These rulings, in my view, are largely political theater. If proponents of censorship in the U.S. today are thumbing through the South African playbook, they might learn that it's savvy to sound tolerant, if only for show. After all, South African censors were devious enough to figure that banned books were of more use to the anti-apartheid movement because they they'd get notoriety. If the book were no longer banned, then they'd lose much of their appeal. They knew the threat of banning can actually backfire andOur modern American censors may be cribbing from South Africa's notes, but they should read to the end of the history book.
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