I don’t think most Americans understand the nasty stupidity of what amounts to book burnings being carried out by MAGAts, mostly MAGAt women. MAGAt Republicans as a group are lower education individuals, and the oligarchs and Republican leaders who support these people are on board with this censorship because every research study shows that the better educated a man or woman becomes the more likely they will vote for Democrats. What the MAGAt Republicans want are badly educated peasants because such people are more likely to have the resentments, hate, racism, and stupidity that make it easy to manipulate them. These are the Trump voters. Here is the list of 10 of the 673 books no longer available in Orange County, Florida. I found the list quite revealing because except for two books written after I was in school — although I have read them — every book on the list was an assigned title which I read and we studied in English class when I was in school as a boy. You probably read most of them yourself. You should be aware of what this book burning is really about. It is designed to dumb down public school students so they can be indoctrinated into MAGAts.
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A law often touted by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts the kinds of books that can be available in public schools has led teachers in the state’s Orange County to remove hundreds of books from their shelves — including some that are widely considered literary classics.
The Orlando Sentinel has compiled a list of all 673 books pulled from the shelves in the county, and it shows that Florida’s law resulted in the removal of books that go well beyond often-targeted titles such as “Gender Queer” by author Maia Kobabe.
Below are ten pieces of classical literature that you will no longer find in school libraries in Orange County.
1.) Paradise Lost by John Milton.
Although published all the way back in 1667, John Milton’s epic poem about Satan, Adam and Eve is apparently still too risqué for Gov. DeSantis and his allies in the Florida state legislature.
2.) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
An epic satire of the American military set during the closing months of World War II.
Terri Quint
on Friday, December 22, 2023 at 7:45 am
Stephen, you are so right. The GOP is looking for a huge group of uneducated, bigoted people whom they can manipulate to whatever they want. Someone has to file a lawsuit over banned books because this is clearly an infringement on peoples’ rights to read. How dare someone not allow a teacher to teach long-loved books over hundreds of years?
Terri Quint
Stephen, you are so right. The GOP is looking for a huge group of uneducated, bigoted people whom they can manipulate to whatever they want. Someone has to file a lawsuit over banned books because this is clearly an infringement on peoples’ rights to read. How dare someone not allow a teacher to teach long-loved books over hundreds of years?
Terri Quint