5/23/2023 0 Comments Ban this book![]() "We all have different issues that we think shouldn't be in books - historic representations of racism, for example, something like Mark Twain is just as likely to as is 'Gender Queer,'" a coming-of-age memoir about the author's LGBTQ identity. ![]() "If you get five people and they walk through a library and they are allowed to remove anything they think might get someone in trouble for it being there - Well, they're going to start pulling all kinds of stuff, a conservative person and progressive person," Jonathan Friedman, the director of free expression and education programs at PEN America, told ABC News. Only a handful of efforts have also come from liberal sources, mainly targeting books with racist or offensive language. ![]() While activists across the political spectrum have sought to restrict or protest some forms of literature, the vast majority of book challenges are from conservative-leaning groups, researchers say. ![]() ![]() The country saw a growing effort to ban books in schools and libraries nationwide in 2022, and researchers expect to see more efforts to challenge books in 2023 as some Republican-backed laws across the country aim to restrict LGBTQ and racial content in school books. ![]()
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