Not a book I would want to read for fun,” an adult wrote of the owl book in the spreadsheet.) And the scope of the proposed book ban is even broader and loonier than MFL’s June letter suggests.Īccompanying that letter is an 11-page spreadsheet with complaints about books on the district’s curriculum, ranging from popular books on civil rights heroes to books about poisonous animals (“text speaks of horned lizard squirting blood out of its eyes”), Johnny Appleseed (“story is sad and dark”), and Greek and Roman mythology (“illustration of the goddess Venus naked coming out of the ocean…story of Tantalus and how he cooks up, serves, and eats his son.”) A book about hurricanes is no good (“1st grade is too young to hear about possible devastating effects of hurricanes”) and a book about owls is designated as a downer. With school back in session, the Williamson County feud has been renewed, Reuters reported this week. Many of the books are about race, but other targets include dragons, sad little owls, and hurricanes. Here’s some of the offensive stuff:Īt the heart of that fight is a conservative group, led by a private-schoolparent, that has a sprawling list of complaints against common classroom books. This article describes the battle in Tennessee’s Williamson County School District, in a state where there are already laws against teaching CRT (I object to any such laws). Among the things that the Right-wing group “ Moms for Liberty” are fighting to ban in schools are predictable ones: mentions of race, the struggle for civil rights, Native Americans, descriptions of segregation in schools, and so on.īut click on the screenshot below to read some new and unpredictable targets of Right-Wing opprobrium, including, for crying out loud, the reproduction of seahorses! But it is true that we shouldn’t forget that the Right is guilty of some equally stupid attempts at censorship, several of them described in this article in The Daily Beast. If that’s true, it’s because I think the Left’s activities will help the Republicans in the next elections, while everybody in the liberal media concentrates on the Right. I’ve been criticized for concentrating on “cancelling” by the Left and ignoring the same activities by the Right.
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