Georgia’s second-largest school district says that it has removed two books from 20 school libraries, saying the books had “highly inappropriate, sexually explicit content.”
The announcement, sent in an electronic message to parents in some Cobb County schools on Monday, comes days after the Republican-majority school board voted 4-3 along party lines to fire a teacher for reading a book about gender identity to fifth-grade students.
Although not new, book removals have surged since 2020, part of a backlash to what kids read and discuss in public schools. Conservatives want to stop children from reading books with themes on sexuality, gender, race and religion that they find objectionable. PEN America, a group promoting freedom of expression, counted 4,000 instances of books banned nationwide from July 2021 to December 2022.
Dude it’s 9am where I am, I just woke up and posted a comment without fully proofreading it. Maybe consider not being an aggressive asshole and gently correct me instead? My intention was to say that they likely do read it and reach the conclusion they want and the irony of that goes over their head. I simply stated I assumed you understood what I actually meant
That was about as gentle a correction you can get on the Internet.
@[email protected] was more than capable of doing so without being a condescending asshole, so it’s possible.
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Calm down and stop being so condescending.
Chill out the hell out and stop being so condescending. We aren’t bringing that shit over from Reddit. And no, I didn’t think you were someone else.
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I didn’t take it personally. It was just really aggressive and rude hence why I pointed it out as such. Saying that I have something in common with book banners was just not needed.