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Removed works include Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’; no individual reasoning given for books’ removal.
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The purge of books from Orange County Public Schools, in Orlando, over the course of the past semester is the latest consequence of a conservative movement across the country — and strongest in Florida — to rid public and school libraries of materials deemed offensive. While the vast majority of such challenged and removed books involve race, gender and sexuality, several Jewish books have previously been caught in the dragnet.
“materials deemed offensive” my ass!
They’re systematically removing everything that doesn’t support their 1700s worldview of cishet white Christians being the default humans whom everything and everyone belongs to and it’s WAY past time for non-fascist media to acknowledge it!
Good point.