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    cm0002@lemmy.world to Books@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

    ‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans

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    ‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans

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    cm0002@lemmy.world to Books@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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    ‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America
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    The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.
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    • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
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      WHAT DID MAGIC TREEHOUSE DO?

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      Every time you find out the reasons why or figure out the criteria of why the ban is in place for any book … the Christian Bible should also be banned for the same reasons.

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        ☝️ 🔔 🥇

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      What kind of monster bans Calvin and Hobbes!?

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        Authoritarians/Fascists. It’s not about the content of the books, it’s about the control of the people.

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      Calvin and Hobbes? Wow.

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        and Fahrenheit 451.

        Amazing, isn’t it?

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          Oh the one about banning books (among other things currently happening IRL)?

          (sorry I just had to state the obvious here)

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        Apparently not age appropriate. I wonder what specifically triggered the snowflakes?

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      This country has a lot to reconcile if responsible adults ever get back in power and start fixing things.

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      I only read through Maus yesterday. I’m not sure what left me more haunted - some of the recollections, or the reading of Wikipedia about the camps and extermination afterwards.

      It’s a disgrace that reminders of past human mistakes and atrocities are suppressed.

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        It’s a disgrace that reminders of past human mistakes and atrocities are suppressed.

        We still have the bible for that /s

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      Every time you see a book ban, buy or download the book for posterity.

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