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A mass reading would be a cool protest tactic. Get hundreds of kids hundreds of copies of banned books. Have them sit outside a state legislature - clogging up traffic to and from the building as they read to themselves. Have extra books on hand to give out to people trying to get through, while encouraging them to just sit and read for a bit.
They’ll just pass laws making it legal to run over kids if it’s making you late to work.
They banned Brave New World.
Wouldn't surprise me if they also banned fahrenheit 451
they see that one as a utopian story
They see that one as the objective.
Take your soma. There's obviously no fuckery going on here.
My hot take here is that Brave New World shouldn't be read by high schoolers because it's too complex for most high schoolers.
The book is most definitely not about how "bread and circuses" distract people from an encroaching dystopian hellstate and the number of grown-ass adults I see parroting that is too damn high. See the other comment to your post.
It's instead about how a lack of agency from ongoing institutions already paves the way for dystopian hellstates, and the industrialization of that loss of agency is the core concept discussed in the first chapter. That's why they just ship the main character off to an island with the other people who have figured things out - the dystopia is such that the machine breaks immediately if anyone questions it, so they just let those people go live how they wish.
It shouldn't be banned though, because no books should ever be banned.
That's an even dumber reason to ban that book.
Right, no argument there whatsoever. Banning any book is dumb, full stop. But it is indeed a personal annoyance of mine.
That one absolutely shocks me.
It’s way too on the nose.
I bet 1984 is not banned without a hint of irony though.
If I was a kid right now, the absolute first thing I'd wanna do is read all of these books. These dipshits made sex even more alluring by trying to hide it entirely from kids.
My 16 year old has done that. He finds a book that's banned, takes it out of the library (either physical copy, eBook, or audiobook) and then reads it. While doing so, he keeps an eye out for why it was banned.
He noted that one book was banned because one page describes a sexual encounter. It was about 3 lines and wasn't extremely graphic. It just got the point to the reader that an event happened and then the book moved on. But apparently any mention of sex even existing is enough for a book to get banned.
Unless, it's the Bible, of course. Then you can have daughters sleeping with their fathers and it's all good for kids to read!
They didn't do this banning sooner because the technology didn't exist to easily keyword search for the words "boobs" and "gay". These fascist idiots couldn't sit and read a book for the life of them, let alone consider the context or breadth of potentially "explicit" sections of prose (they also probably think "prose"is some sort of lgbtq slang term because it contains the word rose). You'll probably find that many of these witch hunts actual burn books that do things like mention "race" in the context of a sporting competition, but something that they ignorantly mistake for discussion of a person's race and assume bad :(
Sounds more like conservative thinking is so shitty they have to ignore the thinking part entirely for people to follow it
What on earth is wrong with Where The Wild Things Are? Sure it's got some monsters in it but so does Florida. It's mostly a book about friendship.
Seriously it's like Texas and Florida are having an idiot contest to see who can be the bigger bunch of lunatics.
A book that teaches it's okay to be friends with those different than you doesn't jive with the in-group mentality of Conservatives. After all, if you did so, you might find that gasp! they are people too!
I suspect it has more to do with the author than the content of the book. What kind of Floridian would you be raising if there's a chance they might admire a gay Jew?
I bet many of these removed books won't be noticed if they were let alone. People overestimate the knowledge of other people.
Tried to read the list but I failed:
Florida, home of the dumbass
Nazi Moms Against Liberty
Gee it's almost like we need some goddamn freeze peach in the place.
It's shit that shitty people say shitty things, and the urge to stop them from doing so is understandable.
But freedom of speech - as a general principle, not just the legal interpretation of the US constitutional amendment - saves us from a lot worse.
Once you start poking holes in it, you start getting this kind of bullshit: being prevented from saying good things, or from calling out shitty things.
What was absolute has become negotiable, and shitty people don't negotiate in bad faith; almost by definition, they have fewer scruples than you., and will ruthlessly and cynically exploit any edge they can lever up.
They will abuse their power against you,, while giving themselves a free ride. That's why it always had to be a seamless, all-encompassing 'no, fuck off', no matter what the provocation.
But now -
Fools. God damn fools.
Are you chat gpt?
If only. I'd be rich.
Free Speech!
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