Today’s conservative attempts to ban books are the same ol same ol.
Ah, the fragility of right-wing youth!
(This lil guy is from a 1970 pamphlet...)
A lil history thread:
Among Christian conservatives, fragility has been a cash crop.
E.g. 1934, Bob Jones Sr. preached about a girl who had read a book in college...so she killed herself.
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By 1940, BC Forbes (yes, THAT Forbes), the American Legion, and the Daughters of the American Republic warned that viewing certain social-studies textbooks would turn US children into socialists.
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In the 1970s, conservatives boycotted traumatic information about penises and racism.
Wait for it: They disrupted school-board meetings and bombed schools.
In 1986, with support from Reagan, TN parents sued to keep their kids from learning traumatic info....about the UN.
“Plaintiffs object to concept of ‘All men are brothers.’”
Conservative insults about “snowflakes” have always been more strategy than sincerity.
We've got a full century of right-wing complaints about youth traumatized by books.
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