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Lee wrote
Conservatives Are Banning Books
From Schools While Whining About
'Cancel Culture'
01/28/2022
When a publisher stops printing
an old Dr. Seuss book nobody read
because it contained harmful racial
stereotypes, Fox News and the entire
Republican party lose their minds
over “cancel culture.”
But when conservatives across the
country start banning and censoring
dozens of books at a time from school
libraries, they’re just trying to
protect the kids.
Having already turned school boards
into an angry political morass,
conservatives are now targeting
school libraries in what experts are
calling a historic and concerted book
banning effort.
That includes “Maus,” a graphic novel
that conveys the horrors of the
Holocaust in cartoon form, with Jews
depicted as mice and Nazis as cats.
A Tennessee school board voted
unanimously this month to ban the
Pulitzer-winning book from their
eighth-grade curriculum, citing
“objectionable language” and nudity.
Similar campaigns are underway in
school districts in at least 30 other
states, a Stateline investigation
found, often condemning as
“pornographic” books depicting the
experiences of LGBTQ and Black
characters.
“We haven’t seen or heard of
challenges like these probably
in the last 40 years,” Shirley
Robinson, executive director of
the 5,000-member Texas Library
Association, told Stateline. “It’s
definitely become politicized.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/conservatives-ban-books-schools_n_61f40a1 9e4b04f9a12bcb247
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