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When a Utah school district decided 52 award-winning books they hadn't even read "lacked literary merit," @jonfreadom and @PENamerica sounded the alarm... and authors, activists, parents--and students--rose up in protest.
FUN FACT: IT WORKED.
FUN FACT: IT WORKED.
Banning books in America is never a good idea.
When I interviewed him in Feb., @jonfreadom told me it's not even a good idea to ban The Bible just because of all it teaches kids about slavery, adultery, homosexuality, incest, murder & bestiality thedailyedge.substack.com/p/bonfire-of-t… #Freadom
When I interviewed him in Feb., @jonfreadom told me it's not even a good idea to ban The Bible just because of all it teaches kids about slavery, adultery, homosexuality, incest, murder & bestiality thedailyedge.substack.com/p/bonfire-of-t… #Freadom
"Books haven’t really gone on trial for #obscenity since landmark 20th-century cases determined that... James Joyce’s Ulysses, and... Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, could not be banned."
@jonfreadom talks to @dankois about the new GOP war on #FReadom: slate.com/culture/2022/0…
@jonfreadom talks to @dankois about the new GOP war on #FReadom: slate.com/culture/2022/0…
1/ WARNING: POSSIBLE TRIGGER LANGUAGE, EVENTS or SITUATIONS
Read sad story last night about Dr. Bucci, 50 year old Phychology & Brain Sciences Dept. Chairman, at Dartmouth that committed #Suicide 11 months after a lawsuit was filed by graduate #students in his department. He
Read sad story last night about Dr. Bucci, 50 year old Phychology & Brain Sciences Dept. Chairman, at Dartmouth that committed #Suicide 11 months after a lawsuit was filed by graduate #students in his department. He
2/ was NOT accused of sexual misconduct, but named in the suit for knowing about the professors’ inappropriate behavior as the Chair.I share many of the same feelings he expressed to friends and colleagues in his emails before he took his own life like: the case was deeply
3/ personal; reputation had been damaged; physical health diminished; false portrayal of his actions; being blamed unfairly; allegations & process “unfair”; how can they ever undo what they did to me & #wronglyaccused. Similarly, how I had reported the #disability
