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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/13249285

A book about book bans has been banned in a Florida school district.

Ban This Book, a children’s book written by Alan Gratz, will no longer be available in the Indian River county school district since the school board voted to remove the book last month.

Gratz’s book, which came out in 2017, follows fourth-grader Amy Anne Ollinger as she tries to check out her favorite book. Ollinger is told by the librarian she cannot, because it was banned after a classmate’s parent thought it was inappropriate. She then creates a secret banned-books library, entering into “an unexpected battle over book banning, censorship, and who has the right to decide what she and her fellow students can read”, according to the book’s description on Gratz’s website.

In a peculiar case of life imitating art, Jennifer Pippin, a parent in the coastal community, challenged the book.

Pippin’s opposition is what prompted the school board to vote 3-2 in favor of removing it from shelves. The vote happened despite the district’s book-review committee vetting the work and deciding to keep it in schools.

Indian River county school board members disagreed with how Gratz’s book referred to other works that had been taken out of school, and accused it of “teaching rebellion of school-board authority”, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

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[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yo dawg, I heard you like book bans

[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Funny thing is you would not expect that from mom's for liberty... It like Mom against drunk driving holding a wine tasting drive thru.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

"Liberty" has long been code in the US for "far right ideals". Same with "patriot".

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Time to write a sequel Alan.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 33 points 1 year ago

Ban This Book Too

[–] Steve 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or re-release the same book with a different title.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't Ban This Book.

They seem to be taking things literally, so let them get their head around this.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe "Ban this book if you are gay".

You know, since these pearl clutchers have the intelligence of middle schoolers maybe applying the same deterrence logic.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Aren’t a bunch of them deeply closeted though? They’ll say they aren’t but in their hearts, they’ll have to ban it.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Stupid says ‘ban’?”

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Fascistsayswhat?

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Critical thinking is terrifying!

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol republicans don’t like their dirty laundry being aired out. Just like China arresting protestors for holding a blank sign.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

China arresting protestors for holding a blank sign

Incidentally, that was a protest against COVID lock down measures, which Der Spiegel picked up and turned into a "China won't even let people wave white paper!" headline. It got picked up by anti-COVID activists in western states and used as proof that lock downs were a form of big government fascism.

[–] pezmaker@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Book bans all the way down

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pippin’s opposition is what prompted the school board to vote 3-2 in favor of removing it from shelves.

School board NIMBYs do be like that.

“teaching rebellion of school-board authority”

Surprised they didn't call the author a tankie.

[–] thecodeboss@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should be more like, "teaching to question authority instead of blindly accepting it"

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, that gets complicated.

I've been in classrooms where - say - staunch evangelicals are constantly questioning the authority of a biology teacher as she's working through the lesson plan. But this tolerance for "questioning authority" only ever seems to swing one way. You won't see equivalent degrees of tolerance extended to, say, arguing with a gym teacher in an "abstinence only" health class who insists that condoms have a 50% failure rate or a history teacher who keeps rebranding the Civil War as The War of Northern Aggression.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Yesterday I was listening to a podcast which was interrupted by an ad about Ad Block plus.So many things about that situation was just so bizarre, that I listened out of curiosity. I guess some people also listen to that ad, pay a monthly subscription to an ad blocker, so that they don’t need to see ads in their browser any more. The irony is strong with this one…