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so the Telegraph is throwing its toys out of the pram over the award of the Carnegie Medal to Kevin Brooks. I am all for trigger warnings, and even authors self-censoring, but someone else censoring is a whole different matter. What I cannot understand though is *what* people call on to be censored - if what you care about is the deleterious effect on our youth, then surely more damaging than any amount of violence or disturbing material is the slow drip drip of casual bigotry in our media that is turning generations towards inherent racism. If the Telegraph wants children protected from harmful material, dont target amazing books, take a look at yourself theguardian/books/2014/jun/24/carnegie-medal-the-bunker-diary-kevin-brooks
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:28:30 +0000

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