Trump is headed for the history books. Unfortunately for him, if the Republicans get their way and burn all the history books, Trump will slide into obscurity.
Yikes 😬
The wolf is at the door now. We are at that point in time.
Via: Utah Library Association
6:12 PM · Feb 3, 2024
"If you are a Utahn concerned about ongoing threats to librarians and teachers, and book-banning, go to Let Utah Read to learn more about the issues and how you can help."
After A White Teacher in SC Was Punished For Teaching a Ta-Nehisi Coates Lesson -
Mary Wood taught "Between the World and Me" for a second time to the shock of her peers.
Some folk don't just want to ban books — they want to close libraries. One group of religious activists in rural Columbia County, Wa. who tried to have the area's only library shut down has failed. They tried to exploit a 1940s loophole in the law, but a local judge found the effort unconstitutional after residents challenged the issue in court. Now, state legislators are working to update the law. “Closing libraries is a stupid idea,” Washington state Sen. Sam Hunt told the Seattle Times. Here's more from @LGBTQNation.
"The very existence of a state vetting process for #books is anathema to the values that I as a historian…and teacher hold sacred — even if the censors could approve every book that I submitted…I’m not telling a single child they can’t read a book."
Books “are disappearing” from K-12 classrooms and libraries across the country in an “unprecedented flood.” After reaching a record high in the 2021-22 school year, book bans increased another 33 percent last year, “supercharged” by “punitive state laws” and “local and national coordinated pressure campaigns.” This is despite opposition from roughly two-thirds of Americans. #AureFreePress#news#GOP#Politics#USA#BookBans#library
"Once people start banning dictionaries, they’ve moved beyond any pretense of protecting children—which they still haven’t proved book banning in any way does. ...
The situation seems to be that people who aren’t very smart want to prevent others from becoming smarter than them. Certainly, we can’t accept such a low bar for our children."
Florida’s Book-Banning Crusade Has Found Its Next Target: Dictionaries
A law signed by Ron DeSantis last year has led one school district to remove three publishers’ dictionaries, while another removed classics like Paradise Lost and East of Eden, for their descriptions of “sexual conduct.”
PS: It turns out to be a myth that Victorians covered piano legs for the sake of modesty. But one day people will hear that Floridians removed dictionaries from school libraries for the sake of modesty, or prudery, or protecting the children, and wonder whether it's a myth. The truth will be out there, but not in Florida libraries.
** 8 encyclopedias
** 2 #dictionaries
** 2 thesauruses
** 5 editions of The Guinness Book of World Records
** Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl
** The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
** Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile
As a people, we are really dumb. But not dumb enough, apparently.
According to @juddlegum, the westernmost #Florida panhandle community that includes Pensacola, Escambia County School District, has removed three dictionaries, two thesauruses, eight encyclopedias, and 2,800 other books from its libraries because “they may violate HB 1069, a bill signed by #DeSantis last May.”
"The Escambia County School District, located in the Florida panhandle, has removed several dictionaries from its library shelves over concerns that making the dictionaries available to students would violate Florida law."
So, out of all the potentially "offensive" material in this book (like a feminist witch who becomes a leader) , the "censor" decides that mention of the words "goddammit", "Jesus Christ," "Christ Jesus” and "Christ" were the most offensive. I wonder if the person only knew how to read those particular words. I feel bad for the #Abilene#PublicLibrary in #AbileneTexas -- they must have to deal with some real choice humans (I'm being sarcastic)!