Book bans are un-American | Opinion
People raise signs opposing banning books about gender fluidity during a Keller school board meeting on Nov. 14.“A User’s Guide to All the Banned Books in Texas,”
In fact, during that time period, Texas banned more than 30% of the total number of book bans for the entire country. And four states — Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee — accounted for more than 85% of the total book bans during that reporting period. As an attorney, these statistics gave me pause; where was the legal precedent for this brazen suppression of knowledge?
Ideological disagreements aside, our concern as a society should lie with what awaits us in our future if the children of our present are not even able to have access to the books that were mandatory reading for us. Where does that leave us as a society that continues to further restrict the free access of the most powerful tool at our disposal — information?
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