Book ban efforts surging in 2022, library association says

1. 2022-09-18 at 3:08 PM UTC

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   Truth Details Tuskegee Airman (banned)
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   “I've never seen anything like this,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. “It's both the number of challenges and the kinds of challenges. It used to be a parent had learned about a given book and had an issue with it. Now we see campaigns where organizations are compiling lists of books, without necessarily reading or even looking at them.”
   
   The ALA has documented 681 challenges to books through the first eight months of this year, involving 1,651 different titles. In all of 2021, the ALA listed 729 challenges, directed at 1,579 books. Because the ALA relies on media accounts and reports from libraries, the actual number of challenges is likely far higher, the library association believes.

2. 2022-09-18 at 3:24 PM UTC

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   mmQ Lisa Turtle

   According to a report issued in April, the most targeted books have included Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir about sexual identity, “Gender Queer,” and Jonathan Evison’s “Lawn Boy,” a coming-of-age novel narrated by a young gay man.

   
   
   I'm gonna memorize the entirety of Lawn Boy and recite it on a continual loop through a megaphone everywhere I go for the rest of my life, just because I can.
   
   
   I didn't realize banning books was still a thing. There shouldn't be a single thing that you can't express in written form. Maybe there is something idk, I'll have to think about it for a minute.
3. 2022-09-18 at 3:47 PM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   lol, "gender queer", a book that targets primary schools yet is too graphic to have its contents posted on social media
4. 2022-09-18 at 3:51 PM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

   Originally posted by mmQ I'm gonna memorize the entirety of Lawn Boy and recite it on a continual loop through a megaphone everywhere I go for the rest of my life, just because I can.
   
   
   I didn't realize banning books was still a thing. There shouldn't be a single thing that you can't express in written form. Maybe there is something idk, I'll have to think about it for a minute.

   
   it's not so much about banning books as it as about removing them from school libraries and cirriculum
5. 2022-09-18 at 3:54 PM UTC

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   mmQ Lisa Turtle

   Originally posted by aldra it's not so much about banning books as it as about removing them from school libraries and cirriculum

   
   Ah ok I guess that makes a little more sense. Or a lot more. Maybe.
   
   Now I have no idea.
   
   Hmmm.
   
   Ok maybe making fag books required reading is weird. I'd make it optional or something.
6. 2022-09-18 at 3:56 PM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   I assume it is optional (mostly) but that particular book targets primary-school age kids and has illustrations of a kid blowing dudes
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   • mmQ
7. 2022-09-18 at 3:58 PM UTC

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   mmQ Lisa Turtle
   lol
8. 2022-09-18 at 3:59 PM UTC

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   mmQ Lisa Turtle
   Ok I change my mind let's make that one absolutely required
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   • aldra
9. 2022-09-18 at 4:04 PM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

   Originally posted by mmQ Ok I change my mind let's make that one absolutely required