Book Bans are Increasing, and Writers of Color are the Target

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
In honor National Library Week, The American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom just released some disturbing data around conservative’s ongoing efforts to ban books from libraries and schools around the country. According to their report, 2022 saw the highest number of appeals to ban books in the 20 years they’ve been keeping track.

And it should come as no surprise that most of the books in the conservatives’ crosshairs were written by writers of color or those who identify as LGBTQ. At the top of the ALA’s list of 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022 are frequent targets, “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison and “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson, a fact that is not lost on the American Library Association.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/b...e&cvid=2f9eb1a603cd451f9e8a0a5fb3c577db&ei=38
 
Here's the list from the linked group in the article of their top banned books:

Below are the most Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022:

“Gender Queer,” by Maia Kobabe
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

“All Boys Aren’t Blue,” by George M. Johnson
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

“The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison
Reasons: depiction of sexual abuse, claimed to be sexually explicit, EDI content

“Flamer,” by Mike Curato
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

(TIE) “Looking for Alaska,” by John Green
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, LGBTQIA+ content

5. (TIE) “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, LGBTQIA+ content, depiction of sexual abuse, drugs, profanity

7. “Lawn Boy,” by Jonathan Evison
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

8. “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, profanity

9. “Out of Darkness,” by Ashley Hope Perez
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit

10. (TIE) “A Court of Mist and Fury,” by Sarah J. Maas
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit

10. (TIE) “Crank,” by Ellen Hopkins
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, drugs

10. (TIE) “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” by Jesse Andrews
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, profanity

10. (TIE) “This Book is Gay,” by Juno Dawson
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, sex education, claimed to be sexually explicit

https://www.ala.org/news/press-rele...ks-highly-anticipated-annual-list-top-10-most
(That's the direct link)

Notice anything these books have in common? Big hint: Graphic sex... (it used to be called pornography but that's just old fashioned to the Left today...)
 
The racist campaign of repression against Black authors has never really stopped — only ebbed from time to time. Today, however, this campaign has roared back into life with a relentless effort to remove Black-authored books from libraries, race-conscious subjects from curricula, and any mention of racism from our collective history. This is partly an obvious backlash to the racial justice movement sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others — but it's also just the latest chapter in a long story of racist censorship.

That's why, for Black History Month, the ACLU of Massachusetts has chosen to highlight a few pivotal, Black-authored books that have been targeted — recently or historically — for censorship. For each book, we will link to the author or publisher's website.

The Hate U GiChallenged fve, Angie Thomas (2017)


Banned Book_I Know Why The Gaged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (1969)

The Color Purple, Alice Walker (1982)



Banned Book_Stamped
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You, Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds (2020)


.............

https://www.aclum.org/en/banned-books-black-authors
 
The suicide cult is rewriting books, pulling books that are blasphemous to WOKE from print, and making movies at are blasphemous also unavailable. They consider ideas that they dont like to be societal cancers, which you do not have the right to experience, in fact UTOPIA demands that you dont and they are nothing if not good soldiers for UTOPIA.
 
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Hawkeye10 said:
The suicide cult is rewriting books, pulling books that are blasphemous to WOKE from print, and making movies at are blasphemous also unavailable. They consider ideas that they dont like to be societal cancers, which you do not have the right to experience, in fact UTOPIA demands that you dont and they are nothing if not good soldiers for UTOPIA.
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poor drunken whitey
 
Who has all the power to remove ideas from the public space? If you seriously think it is enemies of the Suicide Cult then you are obviously a moron.
 
guno said:
In honor National Library Week, The American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom just released some disturbing data around conservative’s ongoing efforts to ban books from libraries and schools around the country. According to their report, 2022 saw the highest number of appeals to ban books in the 20 years they’ve been keeping track.

And it should come as no surprise that most of the books in the conservatives’ crosshairs were written by writers of color or those who identify as LGBTQ. At the top of the ALA’s list of 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022 are frequent targets, “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison and “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson, a fact that is not lost on the American Library Association.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/b...e&cvid=2f9eb1a603cd451f9e8a0a5fb3c577db&ei=38
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We were just discussing with our friends today how it really doesn't matter how low Biden's ratings are -- he is a shoe-in in 2024 because of the bizarre focus the GOP has on grievance and victim politics. Abortion is #1 and this crap here will figure into the voter turnout too. The economy is probably the #1 issue for all working people but esp. the <35 year olds. What are the Republicans doing to address their concerns there? Nothing. Nope, it's banning books, telling teachers what not to teach, banning trans folks from sports, and alsotoo -- abortion abortion abortion.

They will lose 80% of the voters under 35, count on it.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Here's the list from the linked group in the article of their top banned books:

Below are the most Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022:

“Gender Queer,” by Maia Kobabe
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

“All Boys Aren’t Blue,” by George M. Johnson
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

“The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison
Reasons: depiction of sexual abuse, claimed to be sexually explicit, EDI content

“Flamer,” by Mike Curato
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

(TIE) “Looking for Alaska,” by John Green
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, LGBTQIA+ content

5. (TIE) “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, LGBTQIA+ content, depiction of sexual abuse, drugs, profanity

7. “Lawn Boy,” by Jonathan Evison
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

8. “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, profanity

9. “Out of Darkness,” by Ashley Hope Perez
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit

10. (TIE) “A Court of Mist and Fury,” by Sarah J. Maas
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit

10. (TIE) “Crank,” by Ellen Hopkins
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, drugs

10. (TIE) “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” by Jesse Andrews
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, profanity

10. (TIE) “This Book is Gay,” by Juno Dawson
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, sex education, claimed to be sexually explicit

https://www.ala.org/news/press-rele...ks-highly-anticipated-annual-list-top-10-most
(That's the direct link)

Notice anything these books have in common? Big hint: Graphic sex... (it used to be called pornography but that's just old fashioned to the Left today...)
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"Claimed to be sexually explicit" does not equal IS.

Maybe if you'd been to the library a little more often, you would have better reading comprehension -- and critical thinking skills.
 
guno said:
The racist campaign of repression against Black authors has never really stopped — only ebbed from time to time. Today, however, this campaign has roared back into life with a relentless effort to remove Black-authored books from libraries, race-conscious subjects from curricula, and any mention of racism from our collective history. This is partly an obvious backlash to the racial justice movement sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others — but it's also just the latest chapter in a long story of racist censorship.

That's why, for Black History Month, the ACLU of Massachusetts has chosen to highlight a few pivotal, Black-authored books that have been targeted — recently or historically — for censorship. For each book, we will link to the author or publisher's website.

The Hate U GiChallenged fve, Angie Thomas (2017)


Banned Book_I Know Why The Gaged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (1969)

The Color Purple, Alice Walker (1982)



Banned Book_Stamped
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You, Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds (2020)


.............

https://www.aclum.org/en/banned-books-black-authors
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I agree with the sentiment but not the inflammatory language in this quote. Hyperbole like this just defeats the cause.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
The suicide cult is rewriting books, pulling books that are blasphemous to WOKE from print, and making movies at are blasphemous also unavailable. They consider ideas that they dont like to be societal cancers, which you do not have the right to experience, in fact UTOPIA demands that you dont and they are nothing if not good soldiers for UTOPIA.
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The racism in America 2023 is almost all anti-white....especially men...except the ones who pretend to be women.
 



America cannot and will not ever be civilized in its present configuration.

As long as we have red states with political power far in excess of what their population warrants,
America will continue to be a more toxic shit show with each passing generation.

Why? Because the significant majority of red state denizens are genuinely bad people--people totally devoid of morality, quality, and worth.

The only way blue state people will ever experience a modicum of civilization is to partition themselves from the devolved, sub-human red state mutants who hold us back.

I'm not sure why I should give a fat flying fuck.

My children have chosen to not have kids, largely because this country is so fucked up,
but also because their chosen lifestyles are not conducive to good parenting,
and they're both extremely responsible and moral people--a rarity in America.

Thus, only three generations of my family will have been born here,
and when my kids are gone,
it will be as if the entire ill-advised American experiment of my grandparents never happened.
Thank God, if He exists, for small favors.

But most of you folks are here for the long haul, a half-handful of you are good people, and thus I'd rather you prosper than continue
to diminish in quality of life.

The book-burning, anti-intellectual, misogynist, racist, xenophobic, theocratic, and generally malignant sub-humans of red state America are holding you down.

Get them completely the fuck out of your lives.

If you do, you've got a chance.

If you don't, you're seriously fucked,
and not entitled to complain about it
because you're doing jack shit about it.

This is a message of good will.
I have never typed more sincere words in my life.

There are not, and never have been,
moderate solutions for catastrophic problems.

America's problems in its present configuration are beyond catastrophic--beyond dystopian, actually.

You can have the balls to be radical with your solutions,
or you can condemn your progeny to lives that will, with absolute certainty, make them curse you to hell for having them.

I'm never wrong about things like this. NEVER.







 
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T. A. Gardner said:
Here's the list from the linked group in the article of their top banned books:

Below are the most Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022:

“Gender Queer,” by Maia Kobabe
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

“All Boys Aren’t Blue,” by George M. Johnson
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

“The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison
Reasons: depiction of sexual abuse, claimed to be sexually explicit, EDI content

“Flamer,” by Mike Curato
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

(TIE) “Looking for Alaska,” by John Green
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, LGBTQIA+ content

5. (TIE) “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, LGBTQIA+ content, depiction of sexual abuse, drugs, profanity

7. “Lawn Boy,” by Jonathan Evison
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

8. “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, profanity

9. “Out of Darkness,” by Ashley Hope Perez
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit

10. (TIE) “A Court of Mist and Fury,” by Sarah J. Maas
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit

10. (TIE) “Crank,” by Ellen Hopkins
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, drugs

10. (TIE) “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” by Jesse Andrews
Reasons: Claimed to be sexually explicit, profanity

10. (TIE) “This Book is Gay,” by Juno Dawson
Reasons: LGBTQIA+ content, sex education, claimed to be sexually explicit

https://www.ala.org/news/press-rele...ks-highly-anticipated-annual-list-top-10-most
(That's the direct link)

Notice anything these books have in common? Big hint: Graphic sex... (it used to be called pornography but that's just old fashioned to the Left today...)
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Not just graphic sex, most of those books would violate the 12b rule in this forum.
 
Reichnuts don't want their kids to be disadvantaged
because the libs all have kids that can read.

We see how they're reacting.
Banning books.
Closing libraries.

Their proper solution would have been to stop polluting the world
with their little rats in the first place.
 
guno said:
In honor National Library Week, The American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom just released some disturbing data around conservative’s ongoing efforts to ban books from libraries and schools around the country. According to their report, 2022 saw the highest number of appeals to ban books in the 20 years they’ve been keeping track.

And it should come as no surprise that most of the books in the conservatives’ crosshairs were written by writers of color or those who identify as LGBTQ. At the top of the ALA’s list of 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022 are frequent targets, “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison and “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson, a fact that is not lost on the American Library Association.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/b...e&cvid=2f9eb1a603cd451f9e8a0a5fb3c577db&ei=38
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no they aren't.

no they're not.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
The racism in America 2023 is almost all anti-white....especially men...except the ones who pretend to be women.
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You nailed that one. Even the Jew author of this thread is anti white to the max. The Jew Guno referred to me as a Goyim, as we all should know is quite a
derogatory/racist term used against Whites. And now he's pretending to be this big supporter of the black race by going after The Right for they're attempt to
ban books that have sexually explicit material that young children should not be exposed to. The Leftist Jew Guno should study up on his aligning with
the Democrat Party that is home to the KKK who had nothing but hatred and hang nooses available to use on Jews and of course on blacks.
 
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