The library system at Georgetown University (GU) has removed hundreds of books shortly after some students found these publications “offensive.”
According to GU’s student journal The Georgetown Review in an article published in early February, a staff member of the publication noticed a book that prominently featured a Native American woman on its cover on a bookshelf at McCarthy Library. This prompted other staff members to “examine every single book in the room,” and they determined, by looking at book covers, that at least one-half, if not all of the shelved books contain “racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, fetishization, and pedophilia.” The students continued their book hunt in another library in Reynolds Hall, where they located more “similarly problematic” books.