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) "
Land of the free
You’re free to read whatever the fuck you want. You aren’t entitled to have the government provide it for you
I grew up in the 80s and remember all the panic and censoring of music that was being paraded in front of us in America that led to parental warnings being put on albums. I had never heard of “2 Live Crew” until I was told not to listen to it. So of course me and all my friends bought it to listen to it.
It’s awful to see that people on my generation grew up to be idiots trying to do the same shitty thing that we grew up with to our own kids.
Whats awful about restricting what the government can use taxpayer money to provide?
When the restrictions come at the expense of marginalized or minority members of society who are every bit as deserving of representation in government services as normative groups.
Nobody is deserving of representation.
