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Friday, January 28th, 2022

Book Banning Fever Heats Up in Red states

Author:     Jon Skolnik
Source:     Salon/Commentary/Raw Story
Publication Date:     January 26, 2022
 Link: Book Banning Fever Heats Up in Red states
Stephan:   There is about a third of the U.S. population who are completely freaked out by what is happening to old prejudices, like assumed White privilege, male dominance, and anything but heterosexual relationships and sex. Equality terrifies them, and they see it only as a loss to themselves. Their fear and resentment have gotten to a point that book burning seems a good and appropriate thing to do as this report describes. I think it very likely that the 2022 election is going to be unlike anything experienced in the United States, and I am not sure how it is going to come out. Not just in terms of politics, but culturally. I don't think the majority of us quite realized just how freaked out these people are.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
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Amid the GOP’s national campaign to purge “leftist ideology” from public schools, local officials across the nation are now banning certain books that deal with race, sex, and gender, from school shelves.

On Thursday, a Missouri school board voted 4-3 to formally pull Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” from high school libraries in the district. The book, which tells the story of a young Black girl growing up in the Great Depression, includes passages that describe incest and child molestation. Central to the book’s premise is the narrator’s struggle with society’s white standards of beauty, which cause her to develop an inferiority complex around the color of her skin.

Wentzville School Board member Sandy Garber told the St. Louis Post Dispatch that she voted against the book to shield her children from obscenity. “By all means, go buy the book for your child,” Garber said. “I would not want this book in the school for anyone else to see.”

The decision comes despite pushback from district staff and residents, who after […]

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