Van any time you have dipped your toe in the political waters I have cut it off which I will do again gladly. Don't talk so stupid, I mean it // reflects really poorly on you and this site. There is no reason to be ignorant. I don't doubt there are some gender bending books that do not belong in public schools libraries. But the zeal to take down other books is a warning to us all about NAZI behavior. And Trump is a Nazi. Many good picks have been swept up in the Republican's zeal to whitewash America: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation An illustrated adaptation of The Diary of a Young Girl was banned from a high school library in Florida because, critics bizarrely claimed, it minimized the Holocaust and—perhaps more important—captured a young girl’s thoughts about other female bodies. A county chapter chair of the far-right group Moms for Liberty led the charge for removal over its “sexually explicit” material. Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes The director of a Florida police uniontargetedthis book about a Black boy killed by police. “Our members feel that this book is propaganda that pushes an inaccurate and absurd stereotype of police officers in America,” he wrote. Further use of the book was paused in a classroom in Broward County. Mausby Art Spiegelman In January 2022, a Tennessee school board voted unanimously to ban this Pulitzer-winning graphic novel from its eighth grade curriculum. The book depicts Holocaust victims as mice and Nazis as cats. One board member took offense at illustrations of naked mice in the book. “All the way through this literature we expose these kids to nakedness, we expose them to vulgarity.… If I was trying to indoctrinate somebody’s kids, this is how I would do it,” hesaid. 2023: 'Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream' by H.G. Buzz' Bissinger An Iowa school district recently used ChatGPT to screen and ban 19 book titles in compliance with a state law requiring that books in school libraries be "age appropriate" and free of any "descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act,"Popular Sciencesaid. One of the 19 books initially tagged was Buzz Bissinger's 1990 novel "Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream." The ban was short-lived, though, as the school district backtracked after major backlash. Before the reversal, Bissinger called the use of AI to ban his book "pathetic," adding that whoever made that decision was a "complete idiot" and "a danger," he said to The Gazette. But Bridgette Exman, Mason City School District's assistant superintendent, defended the school's use of AI, telling the outlet, "it is simply not feasible to read every book and filter for these new requirements." <-- not if your dumb as hell! lol 2023: 'Shopgirl' by Steve Martin Comedian Steve Martin recently joined the ranks of authors responding to their books being banned. "So proud to have my book 'Shopgirl' banned in Collier County, Florida!" Martin said onInstagram. "Now, people who want to read it will have to buy a copy!" According to a recentPEN Americareport, his 2000 novella, which was turned into a film of the same name, was among over 300 titles banned in the county's public school libraries. The books were removed in compliance with Florida’s HB 1069 law, which gave school boards more oversight over library collections and validated complaints against content that "depicts or describes sexual conduct." 2024: 'Carrie,' 'It,' 'The Gunslinger' and more by Stephen King Stephen King had some choice words after he realized several of his books had fallen victim to Florida's book ban law. "Florida has banned 23 pf [sic] my books. What the f**k?" the author wrote in a post on X. King's novels got caught in the wave of Florida's House Bill 1069, which Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed into law in 2022 after several complaints from Moms for Liberty. The law, which went into effect July 2023, targets books with anything that can be construed as "sexual conduct" and has forced hundreds of novels, including "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain and "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank to be removed from elementary, middle and high school libraries. In August,six major book publishers banned together with parents and authors to sue the state of Florida over the law that they argue violates First Amendment rights to free speech. The lawsuit challenges a portion of the bill that requires school districts to remove a book that "depicts or describes sexual content" or is "pornographic."
Banning Captain Underpants really! #2 - Captain Underpants SeriesbyDav Pilkey Call Number: J CAP SERIES ISBN: 0439698626 Publication Date: 2004-10-01 Pilkey plays with words and pictures, providing great entertainment. The story is immediately engaging—two fourth-grade boys who write comic books and love to pull pranks find themselves in big trouble. Mean Mr. Krupp, their principal, videotapes George and Harold setting up their stunts and threatens to expose them. The boys' luck changes when they send for a 3-D Hypno-Ring and hypnotize Krupp, turning him into Captain Underpants, their own superhero creation. Later, Pilkey includes several pages of flip-o-ramas that animate the action. The simple black-and-white illustrations on every page furnish comic-strip appeal.
Banning Toni... Really? #10 - The Bluest EyebyToni Morrison (Afterword by) Call Number: F MOR ISBN: 0679433732 Publication Date: 1993-12-28 It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Banning Mockingbird.. really? #15 - To Kill a MockingbirdbyHarper Lee Call Number: F LEE ISBN: 9780446310499 Publication Date: 1960 The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Reasons: offensive language, racism
I could go on and on and on: #28 - Of Mice and MenbyJohn Steinbeck Call Number: YA PB STE ISBN: 0140177396 Publication Date: 1993-09-01 They are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a “family,” clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie’s unswerving obedience to the things George taught him. Reasons: offensive language, racism, unsuited to age group, violence #29 - The Handmaid's TalebyMargaret Atwood Call Number: F ATW ISBN: 038549081X Publication Date: 1998-03-16 Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now... Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity and for “vulgarity and sexual overtones” #30 - The Hate U GivebyAngie Thomas Call Number: YA THO ISBN: 0062498533 Publication Date: 2017-02-28 Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.
I knew Tyson had bottomed. It went from $54 to $66 and it pulled back last week. $62 now. Hmmm. Poultry is still high in the supermarkets.... pork is cheap. I wonder why. I think if Tyson gets to its 100 day around $60, it might be a decent long term hold. Or buy a little now.