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Showing Original Post only (View all)So - "The Grapes of Wrath" by Steinbeck is now a banned book [View all]
in some circles. I read this in high school. Thankfully, I read a lot of great books in high school. I didn't realize how lucky I was.
We already know that the current administration and its "Christian" counterparts are anti-scientific. No evolution. Pretty soon they won't believe in DNA or gravity because they won't teach it in these Christian schools.
No great literature, no science, no history- or a totally distorted history. I can't even imagine what social studies and government will look like.
The next generation will not be prepared to think. They will only be able to function under authoritarianism.
Today's Banned Book Club on Ali Velshi:
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Keep them upcoming little future trumpies ignorant so they'll be grift-bait. nt
allegorical oracle
Jan 18
#14
Lol, I am far from being a big book reader, but was in that HUGE Portland Bookstore and they had a banned books display
FHRRK
Jan 18
#64
Now? It always has been. When it was published in 1939 it was both a best-seller
RockRaven
Jan 18
#7
I feel like we should start community reading groups where adults and young people can read
milestogo
Jan 18
#11
I honestly feel a good move for Dems would be a huge, volunteer literacy program
SheltieLover
Jan 18
#39
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize.
Swede
Jan 18
#17
Yes, and he will sometimes have the author on to discuss their book and how it relates to today.
Deuxcents
Jan 18
#38