The accelerating effort in GOP-controlled states to censor what students learn about race and to ban (or burn!) books reinforces the red state drive to restrict voting: one wants to limit today's electorate, the other to shape the attitudes of tomorrow's. https://t.co/fkHERTj3zZ https://t.co/4hSqlPfpY3
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 4, 2022
Hundreds of books have been pulled from Texas libraries for review, sometimes over the objections of school librarians, several of whom told @NBCNews they face mounting pressure to pre-emptively pull books that might draw complaints. https://t.co/IXWSxiL7o3
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 4, 2022
A Missouri man, who sought to ban LGBTQ books from schools for depicting sexual content, is facing charges for second-degree child molestation and, in a separate case, a misdemeanor of furnishing or attempting to furnish pornographic material to a minor. https://t.co/CeUxvL8IpS
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 3, 2022
Book burnings happen in many kinds of authoritarian states, and they are part of every *right-wing counterrevolution*: from Hitler to Pinochet to the one we are living through in the US today. https://t.co/h6cHE0CmUb
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) February 3, 2022
Getting rid of books in public libraries – books that no one is required to read and that most ppl don’t even know are on the shelves – is the purest expression of the authoritarian, censorious mindset. https://t.co/pJJtqCRndy
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) February 2, 2022
SPECIAL REPORT: Hundreds of books have been pulled from Texas libraries for review, sometimes over the objections of school librarians, several of whom told @NBCNews they face mounting pressure to pre-emptively pull books that might draw complaints. https://t.co/SLYfAl29OO
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 1, 2022
Key question: is there anyone in Biden world or Congress raising alarms about the interlocked trends of red state curriculum censorship and book banning? The only Congressional proposals are from Rs seeking to back the censorship. Biden Ed Dept is silent https://t.co/fkHERTj3zZ https://t.co/73vqCJx2tX
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 1, 2022
This is a drive by mostly conservative White parents to limit what students learn re racism at a time when 55% of K-12 students nationwide are now kids of color & the class that enters in September will be last ever in which most HS grads are White. TX students=75% kids of color https://t.co/koFBPyThLM
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 1, 2022
Especially across Sunbelt, the red state GOP drive to censor what students learn about race grows from the same root as the drive to restrict voting: the imperative of maintaining control in states growing more racially diverse, particularly among young https://t.co/fkHERTj3zZ https://t.co/FRE4iu3L26
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 1, 2022
Sad! 