Banned Book Club

632 readers

1 users here now

Community dedicated to discussion of banned and challenged books.

ALA Advocacy Page

Banned Books Week

The Palace Project

Please follow this instances rules.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

gabe@literature.cafe

I like the fact that most of these book bans are just driving some of these books to become more popular amongst kids (literature.cafe)

submitted 1 year ago by gabe@literature.cafe to c/bannedbooks@literature.cafe

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

There's quite a lot of books most kids probably wouldn't be reading, but so many are just because they are being banned. Apparently it's been such an issue locally that my local moms for liberty groups want the school board to advise administrators to start confiscating books, which local parents ripped them a new one for even suggesting that

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] mrpants@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

What I love about this stuff is that there's clear rules for what content gets banned for school kids and why (ie. pretty graphic, age inappropriate stuff).

Then a bunch of crazies go off the wall with nonsense.

Then we get the rationals coming in, having never read the original regulations, claiming we need clear regulations.