People Who Ban Books are Never Right

At no point in history have those who seek to restrict knowledge and progress been the “good guys.”

Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day
Published in
6 min readMay 10, 2023

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A person standing on a pile of charred and burned books.
Photo by Quinten de Graaf on Unsplash

I can’t believe that I have to say this at all, but banning and burning books is, broadly and generally speaking, a bad thing. As in it is never acceptable, like, ever. Why are we even having this discussion?

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Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.