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I'm what you might call a "free speecher" and I think both of these are wrong. Luckily the "ban Howard Zinn" bill was never actually passed, and actually led t
by haberman 6y ago
I'm what you might call a "free speecher" and I think both of these are wrong.
Luckily the "ban Howard Zinn" bill was never actually passed, and actually led to far more people reading him (Streisand effect there):
> Rep. Kim Hendren’s bill to prohibit use of the late Howard Zinn’s books in Arkansas public schools died quietly in committee, of course, but it had great unintended consequence: Some 700 copies of Zinn’s book, “A People’s History of the United States,” were sent free to teachers and librarians throughout Arkansas thanks to the controversy.
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2017/04/04/how-kim-hendren-helped-more-arkansans-read-howard-zinn https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2017/04/04/how-kim-hendre...