A snippet " The Topic Concentration chart above lends the clearest picture into the implied rationale behind the bans. Namely, the bans are not and have not been about the physical removal of a book from a shelf. The bans instead are meant to:

Virtue signal by people in positions of institutional power to voting-age parents interested in school choice, parental rights, and wedge social issues to the detriment of non-voting age students

Reject and exclude topics that challenge a perceived status quo from the public discourse (e.g. non-heteronormativity, non-cis identity, non-traditional gender roles, and non-Judeo-Christian books are targeted) "
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      1 year ago

      Banning books doesn’t mean anything these days with everything being digitized, it’s just political grandstanding.

      It’s just making mountains out of molehills, but fear-mongering seems to work so well for both parties it seems

      Everyone loves them some outrage p0rn