Texas school district banning books: list

[tblue37]

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Texas banning a bunch of books. Text

But banning “V is for Vendetta” and “Handmaid's Tale” is just plain funny. Apparently hits a little too close to home.

Here’s the list of books now banned from classroom libraries at Leander ISD, a suburban district outside Austin. The physical purge began Monday.

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[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

1. We read "The Lottery" in school.

I believe it was 10th grade Lit when I read it. Chilling story but yes, it could happen here in wacko America.

Probably the reason these yahoos want it banned.

[paleotn]

2. Book banners are book burners.

and book burners / banners are so low it is impossible to crush them under foot.

[Meadowoak]

3. I'm surprised Texas hasn't banned ALL books, and schools for that matter.

[Paladin]

4. The best and brightest kids will seek these banned books out and learn from them.

There's very little the fascists in Texas government can do about that.

[Walleye]

5. What are they going to do about the children who have already been contaminated by these books

Banning books is always stupid and always fascist

[keithbvadu2]

6. Did Supreme Court Justice ACB self-identify as a Handmaid(en)?

Did Supreme Court Justice ACB self-identify as a Handmaid(en)?

[Deuxcents]

7. Book banning and then..

Book burnings. This is disturbing, to say the least in a democracy. I fear one thing leads to another and then we’re looking down the 1920’s and we know what happened. Starts small.. whip em up .. dumb em down..promise everything. I’m watching this and w/o being dramatic.. I’m scared. These are n so many more parallels we’re watching right before our eyes. Only there’s no place to escape.

[Demovictory9]

8. banned books experience a surge in reading by teens

[Vinca]

9. Amazing. And they call us snowflakes.