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Conservative groups across the US, often linked to deep-pocketed rightwing donors, are carrying out a campaign to ban books from school libraries, often focused on works that address race, LGBTQ issues or marginalized communities.
Literature has already been removed from schools in Texas, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming. Librarians and teachers warn the trend is on the increase, as groups backed by wealthy Republican donors use centrally drawn up tactics and messaging to harangue school districts into removing certain texts.
In October, the Texas state representative Matt Krause sent a list of 850 books to school districts, asking that they report how many copies they have of each title and how much had been spent on those books.
The Texas Tribune reported that the books included two by Ta-Nehisi Coates; LGBT Families by Leanne K Currie-McGhee; and Pink is a Girl Color
and Other Silly Things People Say, a childrens book by Stacy and Erik Drageset. Krauses list sparked panic in schools, and by December a district in San Antonio said it was reviewing 414 titles in its libraries.
In Pennsylvania, the Central York school board banned a long list of books, almost entirely titles by, or about, people of color, including books by Jacqueline Woodson, Ijeoma Oluo and Ibram X Kendi, and childrens titles about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. Lets just call it what it is every author on that list is a Black voice, one teacher told the York Dispatch.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/24/us-conservatives-campaign-books-ban-schools
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But we knew who was funding this, didn't we?
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)constituency. And educated one can't be fooled easily.
Moebym
(989 posts)They've resorted to other means.
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)Like everything else, it was infiltrated by selfish motives.