Hundreds of titles are being pulled from library and classroom shelves in the Republican-dominated state
A new wave of book bans has hit Florida school districts, with hundreds of titles being pulled from library and classroom shelves as the school year kicks off.
The Republican-dominated state, which has already had the highest rate of book bans nationwide this year, is continuing to censor reading materials in schools, bowing to external pressures in an effort to avoid conflict and government retaliation.
“This is an ideological campaign to erase LGBTQ+ lives and any honest discussion of sex, stripping libraries of resources and stories,” William Johnson, the director of PEN America’s Florida office, told the Guardian.
Actual banned books
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Black people must not demand more from life than extreme poverty and race hatred directed at them.
What Girls Are Made Of “As long as there have been women,” Mom told me, “there have been ways to punish them for being women.”
Slaughterhouse-Five Anti-war novels don’t produce unquestioning soldiers.
The Diary of Anne Frank The human spirit must be crushed.
When people say “both sides”, remind them which party is banning books.
And which party cut Medicaid and Medicare. And damaged social security.
And cut school lunches. And gutted resources protecting consumers.
And which party has orange tanner on their lips.
Isn’t book banning unconstitutional? It infringes on free speech, right? Probably a dumb question, because most things the republicans do are unconstitutional.
What constitution?
otherwise known as toilet paper.
…to conservatives.
Ironically, the bunch that claims to love it, be the only ones that care about it, etc., even to the point of performatively carrying around a copy of it. Not that they ever fucking meant any of it.
