After all, there is solid historical precedence for it.
Posted on 09/15/2023 7:42:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In an effort to promote “inclusivity,” a Canadian school district has removed all books published before the year 2008 from all of its libraries.
According to the Daily Caller, the actions taken by the Peel School District in Mississauga, Ontario were in response to a provincial directive from the minister of education ordering a greater focus on “equity.”
“The Board shall evaluate books, media and all other resources currently in use for teaching and learning English, History and Social Sciences for the purpose of utilizing resources that are inclusive and culturally responsive, relevant and reflective of students, and the Board’s broader school communities,” the directive states.
The Peel District School Board (PDSB) subsequently issued a statement defending its decision, saying that the removal of such books “has always been a part of teacher/librarian responsibilities within PDSB and at school boards across the country.”
“Books published prior to 2008 that are damaged, inaccurate, or do not have strong circulation data (are not being checked out by students) are removed,” the school board continued, adding that older books will remain in the libraries if they are determined to be “accurate, serve the curriculum, align with board initiatives, and are responsive to student interest and engagement.”
But the district’s decision has been widely criticized by parents and students alike. Tom Ellard, a parent in the district and the founder of Libraries Not Landfills, asked the question of “Who’s the arbiter of what’s the right material to go in the library, and who’s the arbiter of what’s wrong in our libraries? That’s unclear. It’s not clear to the teachers who’ve provided us this material, and it’s not clear to me as a parent or as a taxpayer.”
Another member of Libraries Not Landfills, Dianne Lawson, pointed out that some of the books removed as a result of the purge included Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl” and the children’s book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.”
In response to the backlash, PDSB Chairman David Green said that the district has since paused its purging of library books, in order to take more time to work out the process and the criteria for which books are to be removed.
“We have to make sure that we are meeting the needs of the students and not just rolling something out because we were told to do it,” said Green.
I guess many books from before 2008 do not properly promote communism and may actually depict the horrors of communism.
That’s one of the things they did in Brave New World.
Freegards
They feel the need to be as “1984” as possible. They don’t have the time and manpower necessary to rewrite all books prior to 2008. Instead, they purge them entirely.
At least in “1984”, Orwell had INGSOC giving the illusion that history was a thing.
Brave New World and 1984 were not supposed to be instruction manuals.
That includes “1984”. Irony is ironic.
Global Warming/Climate Crisis were not invented back then ? LOL
Fahrenheit 68.
This is what has happened historically when one nation conquers another.
The conquering nation removes all references to the conquered nation’s history, culture and traditions to ensure an easy assimilation to the new culture that will be imposed on the subjugated population.
Do you know what books were being burned?
You should do some research on the Weimar Republic and Magnus Hirschfeld.
Then ask yourself why you are just learning about this now.
And what was that about right wing “book burners,” again???
Ignorant wretch. It's a rhetorical question, right? Because everybody knows the mongrels who decide what's right and what's wrong are the last persons on earth qualified to make such determinations.
Isa 5:20: Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
And, woe to them who allow such trash to make such decisions. Because sooner or later, it's coming back to bite them.
I know which books were being burned. They were books the Nazis found offensive. Books written by Jews, books written by communists, books written by deviants, etc.
I hope you’re not suggesting that the Nazis were correct in burning at least some of those books. In a free society it should be up to the individual, not the state, to decide which books should be read.
Of course Nazi Germany was not a free society. We (the US and Canada) are moving in that same sad direction.
That was my original point.
The conquering nation removes all references to the conquered nation’s history, culture and traditions to ensure an easy assimilation to the new culture that will be imposed on the subjugated population.
Oh noes! The JOOOOOOOOOS are gonna make us all read the Bible in the original Hebrew and believe Adam and Eve were real people!!!11
No, but unfortunately, that’s exactly how it turned out.
BTW, I think you’ve misspelled your screen name by a couple of letters.
They removed pretty much everything worth reading.
“The past controls the future, and the present controls the past.”
Or, as a Soviet-era Muskovite put it, “The past is being rewritten so fast that you can’t know what happened yesterday.”
These people are so much smarter than anyone writing before 2008.
I mean “What has Shakespeare or Dickens ever contributed to the English language?”
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