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They Propose to ban 850 books in Texas schools, including
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Boy Erased:
A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family.

Krause’s
The Hate U Give, which centers on a teen whose childhood best friend was killed by the police.

Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison, One Waukee, Iowa, resident, after reading an excerpt from Lawn Boy that mentioned oral sex

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem;”>“Queer youth are often forced to look outside their own homes, and outside the education system, to find information on who they are,” Kobabe said in the Washington Post op-ed. “Removing or restricting queer books in libraries and schools is like cutting a lifeline for queer youth, who might not yet even know what terms to ask Google to find out more about their own identities, bodies, and health.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgm8nk/parents-banning-books-in-schools

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem;”>The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (German: Deutsche Studentenschaft, DSt) to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s.

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem;”>Like in Texas and Florida now The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism.These included books written by Jewish, communist, socialist, anarchist, liberals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem;”>https://www.salon.com/2021/12/16/ron-desantis-escalates-his-authoritarian-purge-bounty-hunters-are-the-next-frontier/