1,626 Books Were Banned in 2022...We Reviewed Them All
1,626 Books Were Banned in 2022...We Reviewed Them All
The "Invisible Library" dataset is free to download. It contains detailed information on book bans by school district across the United States up to June 2022.
A snippet " The Topic Concentration chart above lends the clearest picture into the implied rationale behind the bans. Namely, the bans are not and have not been about the physical removal of a book from a shelf. The bans instead are meant to:
Virtue signal by people in positions of institutional power to voting-age parents interested in school choice, parental rights, and wedge social issues to the detriment of non-voting age students
Reject and exclude topics that challenge a perceived status quo from the public discourse (e.g. non-heteronormativity, non-cis identity, non-traditional gender roles, and non-Judeo-Christian books are targeted) "
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Conservatives are scared of ideas.
And Democrats are afraid of individual liberty
That's a funny thing to say in a thread about conservatives banning books.
Banning books doesn't mean anything these days with everything being digitized, it's just political grandstanding.
It's just making mountains out of molehills, but fear-mongering seems to work so well for both parties it seems
Everyone loves them some outrage p0rn
Banning books doesn’t mean anything these days with everything being digitized,
Why ban books, then?