Have you heard that Illinois is banning, banning books? What do you think (Details inside)

Good for them! As Amanda Gorman the poet said, it is beyond ridiculous that one parent can get her poem banned from a whole county’s schools but one country can’t stop mass murderers from killing people with assault weapons.

Yahoooo! Maybe it’ll catch on! Interesting, but not surprising that it’s a blue state.

It’s amazing that in 2023, this is even a topic. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing to have a law that books won’t be banned, it’s just amazing that book banning is even happening anywhere in the USA in 2023.

There ware a lot of things happening in 2023 that I thought were a thing of the past. I closed out 2022 thankful for the fact that we were finally past racism & homophobia only to discover that it just put on a different mask!!!

Now I am just waiting for all the conservatives to decry not banning books as “woke”.

The more they whine about the “woke” the MORE “woke” I strive to become!!! I started out my life trying to be one of them, but they have run me off with their hatred. I just don’t have it in me!!!

Cue the red ones shouting about porn in the kindergarten classrooms. <eyeroll> Pretty sure we have one here who has already said such things.

@canidmajor
And it is all completely dishonest, because the republican sphere is full of actual groomers, that rightwingers stay conveniently quiet about.
And honestly, if they were actually concerned about children being molested, they would not be banning drag shows, they would be banning churches.

It makes me feel a little uneasy to be honest. It’s a clumsy answer to a problem that shouldn’t exist. What if someone wants to ban a particular book, someone who knows about books for example, say a librarian. They don’t have to “ban” it, just not buy it, they can’t buy everything after all but someone might come along and beat them over the head with the law and demand the book is bought.

Good job!

I like the idea of it. But I’m not sure how effective it will be. Technically Amanda Gorman wasn’t banned, but restricted to the upper grades.

I think it would be more effective for parents to speak up to unban books in their school districts.

If one parent can get a book restricted for the whole district, why can’t 2+ parents get it unrestricted?

Good. Banning books is ridiculous.

Even though I haven’t lived there for many years, I’m proud of my home state!