Protests from the Jewish community. In America in the past year 1,586 books have been banned from 86 school districts
Certain America, profound and obscurantist, strikes again. After the madness that occurred in Tennessee a few months ago, where a siroccan shepherd had burned dozens of copies of Harry Potter And Twilight explaining that “the boy wizard was the devil”, now in Texas, with blows of book censorship, the memory of the Holocaust is directly affected.
As the Washinton Post a comic book adaptation of the Diary of Anne Frank, along with 40 other books, has been banned from libraries and classrooms in a Texas school district, the Keller Independent School District.
According to the American newspaper, the day before the return to school of 35,000 students, the district announced a “last minute” revision of the list of books already put under observation last year but then judged suitable by the committee composed of parents. librarians, administrators and teachers, including the children’s version of the Anne Frank classic.
But the new school board has decided to give a swipe in the towel even on classics such as The bluest eyeby African-American writer Toni Morrison, and justified the more restrictive choice with the concerns expressed by parents.
Among the most frequent reasons for complaints: sexually explicit contents (which also includes the children’s version of Anne Frank’s diary), homosexual and transgender references and deviations from the “letter” of the Bible present in the school versions.
The cancellation of the version of Anne Frank’s diary sparked strong protests in the Jewish community, and several associations publicly expressed their disdain for a decision made “at a time of growing anti-Semitism”. Furthermore, some interviewed by the Post underlined how they want to “introduce politics in schools”, also through the elections of school boards.
Meanwhile, the Patriot Mobile Action, a Christian political action committee headquartered in Texas, has funded the campaign of 11 candidates on school boards across the country, all of whom have been winners. Three of them joined the Keller district council in May. A report by Pen America, an organization in defense of freedom of expression, found that from July 2021 to March 2022, 1,586 books were banned from 86 school districts. Texas, where last year a state congressman distributed a list of 850 books for observation, was the first of 25 states where book bans exist, with 713 volumes banned.
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