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Lee wrote
Conservatives Are Banning Books
From Schools While Whining About
'Cancel Culture'
01/28/2022
When a publisher stops printing
an old Dr. Seuss book nobody read
because it contained harmful racial
stereotypes, Fox News and the entire
Republican party lose their minds
over �cancel culture.�
But when conservatives across the
country start banning and censoring
dozens of books at a time from school
libraries, they�re just trying to
protect the kids.
Having already turned school boards
into an angry political morass,
conservatives are now targeting
school libraries in what experts are
calling a historic and concerted book
banning effort.
That includes �Maus,� a graphic novel
that conveys the horrors of the
Holocaust in cartoon form, with Jews
depicted as mice and Nazis as cats.
A Tennessee school board voted
unanimously this month to ban the
Pulitzer-winning book from their
eighth-grade curriculum, citing
�objectionable language� and nudity.
Similar campaigns are underway in
school districts in at least 30 other
states, a Stateline investigation
found, often condemning as
�pornographic� books depicting the
experiences of LGBTQ and Black
characters.
�We haven�t seen or heard of
challenges like these probably
in the last 40 years,� Shirley
Robinson, executive director of
the 5,000-member Texas Library
Association, told Stateline. �It�s
definitely become politicized.�
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/conservatives-ban-books-schools_n_61f40a1 9e4b04f9a12bcb247
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