Texas schoolchildren aren't exactly living out "The Handmaid's Tale" with books instead of people. The very attempt to "ban" books is getting pushed back, isn't affecting (as far as I can tell) the largest school districts in Texas, and seems most serious in only one or two very white, very conservative school districts (we have over 1000 of 'em, of all stripes and sizes) among the much bally-hooed "suburban housewives."Library wades into culture war by making books available to everyone regardless of location, even to people whose parents are gripped by incoherent gay panic.
— ResponsibleDispatchHat (@Popehat) September 26, 2022
In other news, IHOP wades into anti-Semitism by serving baconhttps://t.co/G34pcbOKEo
I mention Texas only because PEN says, per news reports not per independent analysis or research, that Texas has the largest number of school book bans of any state in the union. So we can safely stand as the exemplar. Jolly good for the New York Public Libraries (literacy is always to be extolled!), but it's not like we're living under brutal intellectual oppression down here.
We do that to ourselves, voluntarily. Pointy-headed liberal arts professors at UT-Austin is the price we pay for football and colleges of engineering and business. We accept that. So long as they stay on their part of the campus and don't go free-range.
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