> I am immediately asked if I have kids and whether I would support some random fascist book being shelved. i see people often claim "the left" wants to ban fa

> I am immediately asked if I have kids and whether I would support some random fascist book being shelved. i see people often claim "the left" wants to ban fascist content, but reality just doesn't seem to back this up. im sure it happens sometimes, but i read this soooo often, that "the left" is running rampant to ban everything. this just doesn't seem to be based in any kind of reality--it seems like the exact opposite is true--maga governments around the country are feverishly, in reality, banning books as we speak. and a wild amount of these bans are because they're trying to suppress lgbtq, "woke", or poc content. deep red states are going to town banning books, the top 3 according to Pen [0] and pen's index of book bans which you can download here [1]: - florida: 33 districts have banned 4561 books [1] - iowa: 117 districts have banned 3671 books [1] - texas: 12 districts have banned 538 books [1] notorious liberal/left states don't seem to be attempting to ban content at all, and when they do, it seems like its in maga strongholds: - california: 1 district has banned 2 books. this is escondido, the 11th most conservative city in *the country*. both banned books seem to be lgbtq. [1] - washington: 0 book bans [1] - illinois: 2 districts, 1 banned for lgbtq content, the other for racial justice content. [1] - new york: the district that has banned books, clyde-savannah, voted overwhelmingly maga. [1] - massachusetts: 1 district banned 1 book called "Woke: A Young Poets Call to Justice". [1] - hawaii: 0 [1] - rhode island: 0 [1] again, compare this to florida, iowa, and texas who have 1000s of banned books across the states. over 10,000 instances last year of book bans and i didn't find mein kampf in this list at all--while The Color Purple is one of the most banned. yeah, the novel The Color Purple... [0] https://pen.org/report/beyond-the-shelves/ https://pen.org/report/beyond-the-shelves/ [1] https://pen.org/book-bans/pen-america-index-of-school-book-bans-2023-2024/ https://pen.org/book-bans/pen-america-index-of-school-book-b...