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One person's argument sounds right, until another comes to cross-examine. This article is one-sided and goes to great lengths to hide the reason those books we
by hereme888 2y ago
One person's argument sounds right, until another comes to cross-examine.
This article is one-sided and goes to great lengths to hide the reason those books were banned in schools.
- torlok 2y agoThere's no good reason. This is just more of "don't say gay" nonsense. It's meant to pull people into a culture war so that politicians can win points without solving any real issues.
- Freak_NL 2y agoThe article is part of ongoing reporting on the issue of book bans in the US. Previous articles in the Guardian (but also other news sources) have focussed on specific legislation already. If you want to find out more about the reasons books are banned, you could start here on the website of PEN America: https://pen.org/book-bans/ https://pen.org/book-bans/ Dig in a little, and you can find out how the various state laws are used, like Tennessee's HB 843 which effectively bans any book containing nudity in school libraries for anyone under 18. The reason these books are banned is not explicitly mentioned in those laws of course.
- autoexec 2y ago> Tennessee's HB 843 which effectively bans any book containing nudity for anyone under 18. It also forbids "sexual excitement", "sexual conduct", and "excess violence" which means that it bans the bible, books on mythology, every single history textbook, just about anything Shakespeare ever wrote, and pretty much any book with a character who has a love interest.