Barnes & Noble said in a statement Friday: “As booksellers, we carry thousands of books whose subject matter some may find offensive. …
We ask that our customers respect our responsibility to offer this breadth of reading materials, and respect also that, while they chose not to purchase many of these themselves, they may be of interest to others.”
Book bans, although nothing new in American life, have
soared to unprecedented heights this academic year, with the largest number of book challenges or removals from school libraries since the American Library Association began tracking the issue decades ago.
A Pen America report published in April found there have been 1,586 book bans in schools over the previous nine months, most of them targeting books by and about LGBTQ people and people of color.
Republican lawmakers nationwide have also begun proposing legislation
that would limit what titles students can search for in school library databases."
Republicans believe they are dictators to which I say move to Saudi Arabia.......Russia........China.......Iran and live happily ever after.