Looking for some millstones...)
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🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Pride goes before destruction - Proverbs 16 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Posted on 02/27/2025 10:22:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
More than half of books banned during the last school year featured or were about people of color or members of the LGBTQ community, according to a report released Thursday.
PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools or their districts removing books from school, classrooms or curriculums last year, affecting 4,218 titles. The analysis released Thursday found that those bans disproportionately affect books about certain identities, including people of color, and also more often apply to certain genres, such as history.
The analysis found that 36% of the more than 4,000 banned titles featured characters or people of color and 25% included LGBTQ characters or people. Of the titles featuring LGBTQ people, 28% featured a transgender and/or genderqueer character. One in 10 of the banned titles featured characters or people with a physical and/or learning or developmental disability, the analysis found.
“This targeted censorship amounts to a harmful assault on historically marginalized and underrepresented populations — a dangerous effort to erase their stories, achievements, and history from schools,” Sabrina Baêta, senior manager for PEN America.
Educational institutions that receive federal funding have become ground zero for the conservative-led effort in recent years to limit students’ access to information about race and racism as well as the LGBTQ community. Proponents of the restrictions argue that such information can make students uncomfortable and that students shouldn’t have access to sexually explicit material.
Critics of the bans argue that restricting access to information harms all students’ abilities to learn, can promote further discrimination and doesn’t allow students of color and LGBTQ students to see their lives reflected in books.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
I never thought in my wildest dreams when Trump was elected that so much would happen so fast. I actually have hope for my Country once again. The only problem is the amount I'm paying for rum to celebrate every day.
I can guess what words are missing from the article. “The books were banned* because of sexually explicit descriptions.”
*More likely restricted to age appropriate readers.”
Banned or restricted due to age.
NBC/Comcast hacks trying to make this about race. It is all about the fag/tranny groomers.
Libs want to ban free speech but allow porn for kids. There’s a contradiction in every issue.
Some black people (but not enough) realize that they are merely props in a propaganda game for leftist social engineering, and the fake "civil rights" narrative Democrats have given themselves. I wish more caught on to this game.
Legitimate question!
More than half of books banned last year featured LGBTQ sexually depraved characters or people of color, report finds
If I were a "person of color," I don't think that I'd take kindly to that, always being lumped together with that crowd!
Regards,
(There is NO LGBTQ “community”)
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“Banned”? I’m purty sure they’re all available somewhere so not “banned”. Just sayin’.
PEN is a long-time Communist front group.
So there were 1000 books intended for children that focused on LGBTQ?!
Looking for some millstones...
(PEN is a long-time Communist front group.)
Sounds EXACTLY what Bill Ayers and Barack Hussein Obama
would use to PERVERT AND DESTROY Traditional America
Which is what they do
There are no books banned in America.
Not one.
i think nbc is making the case that children are being groomed
> PEN is a long-time Communist front group.
Yep. Beat me to it.
Barnes and Noble sells everything and students are always hanging out there. For many fringe topics they can go to Barnes and Noble.
Notice how these obnoxious news-liars are always trying to make f@ggotry look like black oppression in the 1960s?
They know that people find perverted sex practices disgusting, so they always try to make it look like a "civil rights" issue, by linking it to the struggle of black people.
Black people don't even like the faggots and I think most of them wish they didn't try to portray the disdain for queers as similar to what the black people have been through.
Just propaganda to sell queer crap to America.
Because they are intentionally misrepresenting, trying to portray a false narrative that meets their own agenda.
None of these books were banned. They were simply not allowed in schools where children would be exposed to them. Much the same way Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler et al. are not allowed in schools.
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