Current Events > 11 people responsible for most book bans in U.S.

(+) Yeah! (+)

It's gonna be Raw Story, based off a WaPo article, which I'd link to except it's paywalled.

https://www.rawstory.com/book-ban-2660547890/

Right-wing activists have been working in recent years to remove what they say are objectionable books from local libraries -- but it turns out that a tiny number of them are responsible for most of the book ban requests.

Analysis conducted by the Washington Post found that only 11 people were responsible for more than half of more than 1,000 different book challenges analyzed by the paper, with one person responsible for 92 challenges just by himself.

"Together, these serial filers constituted 6 percent of all book challengers but were responsible for 60 percent of all filings," the Post states.

North Carolina resident Michelle Teague acknowledged to the Post that she was singlehandedly responsible for 24 different book challenges, which included titles such as Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita," Khaled Hosseinis The Kite Runner," and Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye.

"I did spend some time doing it, said Teague, who said that she read all of the books that she challenged from cover to cover. "It was involved."

The Post also found that many of the challenges against the books claimed that the texts were not merely inappropriate but flat-out illegal.

"Sixteen percent of all objections claimed that school books violated either state obscenity laws or legislation passed in the past three years restricting education on race, racism, sexuality and gender identity," the Post writes. "Calling books 'illegal' was the ninth-most common reason employed by book challengers. This tactic was especially popular in Florida and Texas: Of the 153 complaints contending books were illegal, 56 percent were brought in Florida and 18 percent in Texas."

It was also about 11 or so people who are responsible for all of the anti-vax conspiracies. Not saying it's the same 11, but there's definitely overlap in their beliefs.

Hmmm what other major political power banned books and burned them?

ArkhamOrigins posted...

Hmmm what other major political power banned books and burned them?

I see the obvious connection you're making, and there are other things that make them similar (the first group the Nazis demonized was also the LGBT community), however in modern times we also have Viktor Orban of Hungary to point to, because he did this not too long ago and the GOP seems to actually be following his examples more closely. Though I think DeSantis making it a Class B felony up to 5 years in prison is further than even Orban went on banning books.

And in case anybody is wondering, yes Viktor Orban is the fascist autocrat who spoke at CPAC not long ago and got (I believe) a standing ovation.

Name any of those books that can't be bought on Amazon, right now.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Name any of those books that can't be bought on Amazon, right now.

Please shitpost in some else's thread.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Name any of those books that can't be bought on Amazon, right now.

Shutthefuckuptarius

Questionmarktarius posted...

Name any of those books that can't be bought on Amazon, right now.

Stop this shit. Stop it right now.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Name any of those books that can't be bought on Amazon, right now.

I mean. Should only nationwide sort of bans be worrying?

ArkhamOrigins posted...

Hmmm what other major political power banned books and burned them?

the same ones that banned guns?

R1masher posted...

the same ones that banned guns?

To be fair. Most countries ban guns. Developed ones at that. Ergo, not fascists.

Not so with books.

Wonder what the difference is.

R1masher posted...

the same ones that banned guns?

You've made a bad analogy. Why have you done that?

R1masher posted...

the same ones that banned guns?

The Nazis only banned Jews and other "undesirables" (their victims) from owning guns. We also saw in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising that the guns they did have not was not enough to stop a government intent on oppressing and murdering them.

Your rifles and pistols are not gonna stop a government from doing shit, especially not now when they could just drone strike you from hundreds of miles away.

Also, it's ridiculous to think that the Founding Fathers would actually want the people to have a means for overthrowing the government they were establishing.

EthanSilver posted...

To be fair. Most countries ban guns. Developed ones at that. Ergo, not fascists.

Not so with books.

Wonder what the difference is.

Also this.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

You've made a bad analogy. Why have you done that?

Maybe he saw both concepts shared the word "ban."

"SAME THING!"

R1masher posted...

the same ones that banned guns?

The same ones that ate food, no less. Checkmate.

"I did spend some time doing it, said Teague, who said that she read all of the books that she challenged from cover to cover. "It was involved."

I'd sooner believe she doesn't know how to read, than that she read every book she complained about cover to cover.

A lot of these people cant actually read at all they do this out of jealousy

UnholyMudcrab posted...

You've made a bad analogy. Why have you done that?

Well in the Target thread he made a claim and then stated he didn't read anything in the thread...

Questionmarktarius posted...

Name any of those books that can't be bought on Amazon, right now.

What does that have to do with school book bans?

The woman who got the poem read at the inaugural banned sounds like she can barely read.

She said she had only read parts of the books. They have to read for me because Im not an expert, she said. Im not a reader. Im not a book person. Im a mom involved in my childrens education.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Name any of those books that can't be bought on Amazon, right now.

Have you ever made a post that wasn't absolute fucking garbage?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Name any of those books that can't be bought on Amazon, right now.

Vs. the cost of walking into a library or school.

brestugo posted...

Vs. the cost of walking into a library or school.

Right? Might as well have said, "Who's stopping these 8 year olds from committing all of their meager money (if they even have any) to books they're not sure they'll even enjoy?!"

Incidentally, I do have a print copy of a book that does not exist anymore.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/08/mcgraw-hill-education-withdraws-textbook-maps-viewed-anti-israel

No idea what this means in CE-sense. I had to have it,when it got memory-holed.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

This is why I love CE

R1masher posted...

the same ones that banned guns?

Well, Reagan did push for some control when the Black Panthers wanted guns. And trump talked about taking guns first, due process second. So, banning books and pushing to ban guns comes from the same party.

Reagan and Trump are somehow the only meaningful gun control there's been since the Prohibition era.

Ban Fahrenheit 451
These people are reading it wrong

Questionmarktarius posted...

Reagan and Trump are somehow the only meaningful gun control there's been since the Prohibition era.

What was Trump's net positive gun control?