About time. All the school reading material i remember from grade school were excerpts from Anne of Green Gables, Ramona and Beezley, and authors like Margaret Atwood, Beverly Cleary, etc. I still question whether I’m a girl trapped in a man’s body thanks to all the female centric stories we read in school.
Good ‘toon except that the only time ‘schools’ are banning these books, if indeed any school administrators/teachers/librarians are responsible for the decision, is if the a/t/l are RWNJ’s in heavily RWNJ districts.
The >800 instances of demands for cancelling books in public schools that I am familiar with originate with either state/local government Republicans or conservative parents, almost always from conservative Christian sects.
I see reports of significant resistance to right wing book cancel culture from school teachers, administrators, and especially librarians, but seldom agreement from those employees with right wing book cancel culture.
A very good point except the root cause of the “banning” request is almost never the school and almost always the insidious outside influencers who are deathly afraid that exposure to “outside” thought will somehow twist dear little “Percy” or “Loretta” away from the path of “Righteousness” as outlined in their pathetic and “threadbare” belief systems.
If I had a belief system so basically shaky that it could be uprooted by someone reading a contrarian belief in a book, I’d question the belief, not the book!
But most belief systems have no solid anchor in fact and so are inherently “shaky” at best.
theincrediblebulk over 2 years ago
About time. All the school reading material i remember from grade school were excerpts from Anne of Green Gables, Ramona and Beezley, and authors like Margaret Atwood, Beverly Cleary, etc. I still question whether I’m a girl trapped in a man’s body thanks to all the female centric stories we read in school.
Zebrastripes over 2 years ago
As dumb as a box of rocks!
ChukLitl Premium Member over 2 years ago
They need to ban books that claim the Confederacy wasn’t treason.
lsnrchrd.1 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Good ‘toon except that the only time ‘schools’ are banning these books, if indeed any school administrators/teachers/librarians are responsible for the decision, is if the a/t/l are RWNJ’s in heavily RWNJ districts.
The >800 instances of demands for cancelling books in public schools that I am familiar with originate with either state/local government Republicans or conservative parents, almost always from conservative Christian sects.
I see reports of significant resistance to right wing book cancel culture from school teachers, administrators, and especially librarians, but seldom agreement from those employees with right wing book cancel culture.
wellis1947 Premium Member over 2 years ago
A very good point except the root cause of the “banning” request is almost never the school and almost always the insidious outside influencers who are deathly afraid that exposure to “outside” thought will somehow twist dear little “Percy” or “Loretta” away from the path of “Righteousness” as outlined in their pathetic and “threadbare” belief systems.
If I had a belief system so basically shaky that it could be uprooted by someone reading a contrarian belief in a book, I’d question the belief, not the book!
But most belief systems have no solid anchor in fact and so are inherently “shaky” at best.