Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
North Carolina bans âBanned Books Weekâ but retracts after media backlash
Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district publicly amends instructions to principals after the Daily Beast picks up story
www.theguardian.com
Its a bad look trying to restrict free speech and when sunlight is applied the state quickly backed down.
I think this quote from an American hero sums it up besst.
“The choice of what to read must be left to the reader or, in the case of children, to parents. That choice does not belong to self-appointed book police,” Caldwell-Stone said.
I wouldnt want right wing crazy evangelists telling me what my kids could read or what was best for them. No normal parent would accept that.
Its a shame that large swathes of America are now subject to the diktats of interfering lunatics who want to shape education and knowledge in their own moronic image.
Its great that north Carolina is fighting back.