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.
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There is NO LGBTQ “community” by definition.
Same goes for the alphabet people. A collection of people who aren’t straight (normal).
Of the titles featuring LGBTQ people, 28% featured a transgender and/or genderqueer character
It’s a start.
Now get rid of the rest.
“NBC News | Comcast ^ | February 27, 2025 | By Jo Yurcaba (D-NBC)
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...”
SUUURRE they were. AND all of them were most likely of the LGBTQ + persuasion in order to be “inclusive”. Not to mention its all brought to you by NBC News
Parents can buy any book they choose to supplement their child’s education.
I cry BS on this report. Have to wonder how committed PEN really is to free expression.
LOL I remember being a teenager and the closest thing to porn I could get my hands on would be art books, which may have 1 or 2 images of interest.
I’m so sick of the filth
I used to offer to pay for a subscription to Soldier of Fortune magazine when I would see the self righteous “banned books” display in public libraries, my offer was always refused.
Good one
No books were banned. Just as whiskey was not banned — it was just not served to your third graders in school.
Thanks for the good news, NBC.
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