Majority of attempts to ban books in US come from organised groups not parents

[Lisa558]

thanks for narrowing it down for us. Can you cite a book
banned in the USA by rich white men-----The only attempts
to "ban" books I know about during the course of my long
inexorable life came from PTA attempts to remove this or
that book from the high school curriculum or school library.
The attempts were fruitless as far as what the kids actually READ.

Back in the early 70s, when I was 15, the gay English teacher selected as our reading material a love story between two men - and rather graphic at that.

I hid it under the bed, but our cleaning lady showed it to my mom. My parents handled it well - asking me, trying to stay calm, why I was interested in a book about gay lovers. When I told them it was assigned reading, my dad hit the roof and went to the next PTA meeting.

He stood up and said that kids my age should be reading the classics, like Gulliver’s Travels, and not a homosexual novel. Alas, even 50 years ago the area was very liberal, and the book remained.

But worse - the gay teacher was so angry that he chose me to read, out loud in front of the class, the most sexually explicit paragraph of the entire book.

Liberals were nasty, vengeful people even back then.

 

[TimFitz]

Majority of attempts to ban books in US come from organised groups not parents

Last year 72% of demands to censor books were initiated by pressure groups and government entities; with just 16% of ban attempts made by parents

www.theguardian.com

I think we all knew that really. The attempt to keep kids in the dark doesnt come from actual parents. It comes from well funded groups of religous extremists and racists.
Everything does come to an end and the current fascist regime will do as well.

I never came from parents.

Mom’s for Liberty is an astroturf campaign run by right wing public relations and lobbying firms on K Street.

It has the same business model as the Tea Party, which was also run by K Street.

 

[irosie91]

Back in the early 70s, when I was 15, the gay English teacher selected as our reading material a love story between two men - and rather graphic at that.

I hid it under the bed, but our cleaning lady showed it to my mom. My parents handled it well - asking me, trying to stay calm, why I was interested in a book about gay lovers. When I told them it was assigned reading, my dad hit the roof and went to the next PTA meeting.

He stood up and said that kids my age should be reading the classics, like Gulliver’s Travels, and not a homosexual novel. Alas, even 50 years ago the area was very liberal, and the book remained.

But worse - the gay teacher was so angry that he chose me to read, out loud in front of the class, the most sexually explicit paragraph of the entire book.

Liberals were nasty, vengeful people even back then.

IMVO (In My Vaunted Opinion) as an infrequent sub-teacher---
your teacher should have been fired----he embarrassed a kid---
the bastard. Be that as it may ---"15 in the 1970's" ---you are
my JUNIOR (damn you) I read all the seedy books----my source
was my mom's underwear drawer.----she knew, HOWEVER
at that time "FAGS" were just a joke---but I lived in a town so
straitlaced that "UNRELATED ADULTS" could not live in the same
house (it was a town of little private houses) People whispered
about the two middle aged ladies that shared a home up the
block. The laws were so DRACONIAN that housemates had to
prove that they were, at the very least, first cousins

 

[Frankenstein]

Parents have always had that right. But now they want everyone to fall in line with their beliefs,

We do not want in school where kids can come across it groomer