Originally published at: A large number of conservative groups are actively working to ban books | Boing Boing
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Unsurprisingly, libraries share information about book challenges, often including the exact wording of the complaint. (The personally identifying information about the person making the complaint is not shared, of course.) It’s very telling to see the exact same phrases repeated word for word in these challenges. Beyond that, you’ll see the same text used in Amazon and Good Reads reviews, often failing to omit the parts about “having this material on the shelves in the library.” (I’ve caught several Amazon reviews that leave that wording intact.)
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They’re doing so by capturing local offices: school board seats, county commission seats, town councils. This is one of those instances where progressives and liberals can and often do stop the fascists.
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They are trying. They will not succeed. They don’t have the people, they don’t have the message. They don’t have the love of reading or the joy of discovery. All they have is brutality and prejudice.
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Just watched this, and it contains good information on combatting these efforts at the local level:
I’m also hoping that some of the parents caught up in these movements get the message that they are also harming their children’s ability to compete in the workplace (if developmental, social, and moral arguments fail). Keeping kids in a bubble not only won’t prepare them for real life, it’s also likely to cause them to fail state assessment and/or college entrance exams. Maybe the thought of having to support their children and grandchildren because of it might get them to rethink their actions.
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Lots of conservatives using false equivalencies and outright lies to play the “both sides” card. For example, “liberals banned the Bible in public schools!” (no they didn’t, but the non-establishment clause of the First Amendment means it can’t be used as part of a public-school curriculum outside of an appropriate context like a religious studies class) or “liberals even banned Dr. Seuss!” (no they didn’t, but Seuss’ publisher chose to withdraw two books from further publication due to very dated racial stereotypes).
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