Amid book banning battles, Seattle school drops 'To Kill a Mockingbird' over racism concerns

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The actions are part of a rising wave of efforts across the country to remove books from libraries and student reading lists in response to complaints and criticisms from parent groups and other organizations.

 

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So much to be learned from the book. Read this when I was 14. It had a significant impact upon my developing thought process. The world cannot be sanitized.

Insane censorship. Welcome to Nazi Germany

All too familiar

I think the last generation to do this eventually lost .

Book banning has been increasing over the last 3 years. Though before 2020, the trend was banning kids books with LGBTQ+ content. 2020 diverged from that when the top 10 most banned books largely delt with race issues or slavery. And now Tennesee has targeted a holocaust book

This is WRONG!

Repeating Germany 1936

Soft

This is Horrible. The Truth always prevails

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