Why Are There So Many Book Bans? | Flyover Culture

I fought in the Culture Wars and all I got was this headache.
School and public libraries are the most recent targets in a growing effort to "protect our children." But why? What's the real end goal of these campaigns? And in an age when young people have so much information at their fingertips, what kinds of ripple effects to book bans even have?
It's Banned Books Week! Support your local library and make some people mad: bannedbooksweek.org/
Further Reading:
ALA Library Bill of Rights: www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreed...
Most challenged books of 2022: www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/f...
The Trevor Project's 2022 Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/www.thetrevorproject.org/surv...
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0:00 Intro
0:26 The Fault in Our Shelves
2:25 The Larger Ban Movement
6:20 What's Being Banned?
7:05 How Libraries Actually Work
9:59 Do Book Bans Work?
11:04 How Book Bans Hurt Kids
13:49 Bleeding into Politics
15:36 What You Can Do
18:56 Conclusion

[@davegann4178]

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” (Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene III, L. 140-141).

[@brickingle3984]

Really excellent reporting here from regions that don’t get much mainstream coverage. My mother is a k-5 technology teacher in North Carolina and for the first time in her 30 year teaching career she had to submit her proposed coding books to a council for approval

[@FlyoverCulture]

Thank you! I appreciate it. And you can't be too sure - computer coding can get pretty spicy.

[@trashkidd]

wow! really high quality stuff and great journalism. very surprised this doesnt have more views than it does. i find it strange that people cant seem to realize that banning media only makes it more sought after and increases its fame/infamy in the market. youd think after a few thousand years of human literature people would catch on, but time is a flat circle i guess lol

[@flauschkatz]

every adolescent worth his salt knows the books worth reading are the ones under lock, teenagers notoriously suffer from having both guts and brains

[@Flounderboy15]

Kevin was right. This episode is a banger.

[@FlyoverCulture]

Thanks so much!!!