Banned books

I admire the students that are setting up book clubs for banned books. They are recognizing that they are being given a list of what they should read.

Those who erase history are attempting to repeat it

My high school English teacher did this, although we didn't know it at the time. It wasn't until I was doing an essay on banned books in college that I realized all of the ones we read in his class were banned. Really made me appreciate him more.

Fun trick I do with my children is to way things like "Oh yeah you don't want that. It's forbidden" if I want them to read more about it.

More like “Based books” amirite

"Hey there's a book about Minecraft - wait no it says 'Mein Kampf'..."

The Anarchist Cookbook is on the reading list

Parents: We must ban all the books we disagree with!

Kids: That's fine, no one reads physical books anymore anyways. Just don't touch the library internet filter - we are getting tired of finding ways around the block list.

Nazi Germany banned and burned a shit ton of books

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_banned_in_Nazi_Germany

Been reading The Keeper of Hidden Books, by Madeline Martin and it's a pretty good read.

Because that's what heroes do.

I've never fallen in love with a goddamn comic strip character like this.

im starting my early education degree in this because of people banning books :)

And the name of that teacher?
Streisand.

Those who are fighting against history being taught intend to repeat it.

Literally 1984

I'm assuming that getting books banned from libraries requires them to be there in the first place (in most cases at least), so any arguments using examples age rating issues should rather focus on why those books got into a school library in the first place.
Surely the ones responsible don't just blindly choose some books to fill the library without at least making sure they're not as wildly inappropriate as some people like to say.

This is referring to a few books that were banned from school libraries a while ago (not sure what they were doing there in the first place).

Anyway, one of the books that were banned showed males sucking each other off. That's hardly something you would be eager to show a kid unless you are a groomer. A common theme between these books in general was that they were pornographic. The fact that there was, and still is an outrage from the LGBT community till this day because of the bans is telling.

Also, do make note of the people here comparing the bans to Nazi Germany. Yeah, not showing kids gay porn is like being a Nazi, apparently. Disgusting.

I hate kneejerk bullshit, so this teacher is going to teach some real shit books because the author included enough hate speech and perversion that it's clearly not suitable for school age kids?

You think the media teacher has the same attitude 'they said I couldn't show you this in class but screw them! get ready for hard core porn...'

There have been good books banned but also we need to be reasonable and live in reality, not all books are suitable for children. The conversation should be about criteria for banning books in school or the process, etc. it's incredibly dumb just saying 'i don't care if it's three hundred pages of glorified rape and racism if you try to stop me teaching it to children you're the baddie'

And yes I know 'but we actually mean something different to the meme we're upvoting...' it's ok upvote this post because I do too, right, that's how it works?