Please show me a list of banned books. Not a list of books banned from k-12 public school libraries, but actually banned (as in can't legally be published) books. I will start an underground publishing house for them.
"Book banning in the U.S. is primarily driven by local and state-level entities, with a significant uptick in coordinated efforts since 2021. HereтАЩs a breakdown of the key players based on available data:
School Boards and Districts: Local school boards have broad discretion to remove books from libraries and curricula, often citing content deemed inappropriate, such as themes of race, gender, sexuality, or "obscenity." For example, in the 2023-2024 school year, PEN America recorded over 10,000 book bans across public schools, with 45% in Florida and 36% in Iowa, largely due to state laws like FloridaтАЩs HB 1069 and IowaтАЩs SF 496, which mandate removal of materials with тАЬsexual contentтАЭ or restrict discussions of LGBTQ+ identities.
Advocacy Groups: Conservative organizations like Moms for Liberty, No Left Turn in Education, and Citizens Defending Freedom have been pivotal, often mobilizing parents to challenge books. PEN America estimates these groups directly influenced at least 20% of book bans in 2021-2022, with Moms for Liberty linked to 58% of advocacy-led bans in 2022-2023. These groups distribute lists targeting books on race, LGBTQ+ themes, or social justice, frequently without reading the texts themselves.
State Legislators and Officials: Republican lawmakers in states like Texas, Florida, and South Carolina have pushed legislation or exerted political pressure to restrict books. For instance, Texas Representative Matt Krause sent a list of 850 books to schools for review, leading to hundreds of bans. Governors like Ron DeSantis have backed laws facilitating book removals, framing them as protecting students from тАЬindoctrination.тАЭ
Parents and Community Members: While only 16% of 2024 book challenges came from parents (per ALA data), their role is amplified by advocacy group support. Many challenges stem from organized campaigns rather than individual concerns, with 72% initiated by pressure groups, elected officials, or administrators.
Historical Context: Book bans arenтАЩt newтАФexamples include the Comstock Laws of 1873 and McCarthy-era censorshipтАФbut the current wave is notable for its scale and organization. Past bans targeted works like The Catcher in the Rye for language or Uncle TomтАЩs Cabin for its anti-slavery stance.
Counterpoint: Some argue bans are overstated or mischaracterized. The U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration dismissed 11 тАЬbook banтАЭ complaints in 2025, calling them a тАЬhoaxтАЭ and arguing schools have the right to remove тАЬage-inappropriateтАЭ materials. However, ALA and PEN America maintain bans are real and rising, often targeting marginalized voices (e.g., books by autof color or LGBTQ+ writers).
Books commonly banned include The HandmaidтАЩs Tale, Beloved, All Boys ArenтАЩt Blue, and Gender Queer, often for addressing race, gender, or sexuality. Critics of bans, like the ACLU and PEN America, argue they violate First Amendment rights and limit diverse perspectives, while proponents claim they protect children from harmful content. The debate remains polarized, with legal battles ongoing, such as PEN AmericaтАЩs 2025 lawsuit against Rutherford County, Tennessee, for First Amendment violations.
This reflects a complex interplay of local control, political ideology, and organized activism, with no single тАЬwhoтАЭ but rather a network of actors shaping the censorship landscape. If you want specifics on a state, book, or group, let me know.
Removing books from school libraries--or even public libraries--doesn't count. It's just another dumb political football match. Anything a kid can't get in his school or public library is available online, probably on Amazon. It's not like the bad old days when the state burned copies of Ulysses. The courts have upheld published free speech since the trial of Naked Lunch in the early '60s.
All this bad noise about "book banning" gets tiresome, though it's important to keep an eye on real censorship and state control of information like we see with the moribund legacy press and news media and what Taibbi calls our attention to here--NPR and its ilk like the BBC, both of which are under threat of being cut off from the government teat.
Excited and very much looking forward to submitting a few manuscripts to "Actually Banned Books," the hot, new (and probably radical as hell!) underground publishing house started by Tom Wilcox, fearless Racket News commenter, gadfly, and all-round man-about-town!
You remain a nitpicking pedantic dipshit! Just like all woke dipshits, you try and deflect. Keep validating the push to keep pornography, tranny story hour and тАЬtheyтАЩre not pedophiles but minor attracted peopleтАЭ. ThatтАЩs you and the sick assholes of your party.
I've never defended the pornography in primary schools. I've always been a harsh critic of the pornography in primary schools.
Most of the pornography in primary schools is outdated and frankly not-very-titillating. If I were a 5th-grader, and discussing the current state (not to mention volume) of the porno collection with the typical primary school librarian, I'd have to weigh in with a "color me unimpressed."
MAGA's in a rush to get rid of the existing porn so they can flood the market (or "zone," in Bannon-speak) with their own porn ($$$$). Trump and that pro wrestler lady Trump hired want to turn the primary schools into Epstein-inspired massage parlors. Not a bad idea, actually.
You don't meet my criteria for banned books. They need to be BANNED, as in publishers end up in jail, authors are in jail, the books are burned by public officials banned.
"book banning...the practice of prohibiting or restricting the reading of certain books by the general public or by members of a local community or religious group. Books can be banned by means of their removal from publicly accessible locations (e.g, libraries), by their destruction (including the burning of printed books), or by making their authorship or distribution a punishable act. Books are typically banned by governments, but they can also be effectively banned by religious authorities, businesses, andтАФin rare casesтАФpowerful private individuals."
HereтАЩs the typical lefty wokester who makes the emotional, unfounded mud slinging claim assuming or hoping no one asks for specifics. When they do they deflect and gave a BS circular answer and doesnтАЩt answer the question because they canтАЩt.
They quickly resort to insults, ironically projections that best describe themselves. They live for the smug feeling of superiority, for "knowing" truth, which is actually regurgitation of mindless group think.
Plenty more banned books. These are incomplete lists and list only the most popular books banned. I really should not have responded to your post---mostly disingenuous bullshit. Stuff we used to call a "lie." Back in the good 'ol days!
I'm curious if you consider these "book bannings" at all different from having age restrictions on R-rated movies? Are these movies "banned" in your mind, even though any adult is free to take their child to see them? Just as anyone with an Amazon account (adult or minor) can order these "banned" books to their house.
Just trying to understand how your superior intellect and not-at-all cunty mind arrives at your conclusions.
I donтАЩt have an opinion on banned books nor have I ever had an opinion on banned books. I merely provided examples of books that have been тАЬbannedтАЭ in response to another Racket commenter who seemed to be irritatingly surprised that there are, indeed, books in the U.S that have been banned by certain individuals, governments and organizations.
Care to take a crack at defining тАЬbannedтАЭ? Nobody here seems to have the slightest idea what it means.
I believe the discomposure by some (in a wide array of settings and by no means exclusive to this forum) is in large part due to the charged nature of the word use as it pertains to books, specifically. For many, it seems willfully obtuse to ignore this aspect.
So while the use of the word "banned" is technically correct, leaving out "...from elementary school libraries" is disingenuous at best, and at worst, a significant lie of omission. I once got banned from a casino, but didn't go around harping about being banned, purposefully leaving out the context so as to make it seem like my personhood had been stripped.
I think the obvious implication being made from this omission is to equate this particular banning with that of the Nazis, or even the evangelicals of the 90's. The problem is that this is not idealogical issue at all, or even a moral one(!) which can be seen by the broad support that crosses almost every demo. There's even a large contingent of the LGB community that sees both the drive to include these books, and the framing of the issue, for what it is. And for good reason!
I believe what I'm describing is illustrated well in my initial point - there's a reason we don't refer to r-rated movies as banned, when they are in every appreciable way, identical policies.
TLDR; your framing is ironically hysterical in much the same way as the evangelicals were back in the day.
Only a child in elementary school, just learning to read, could whiff that bad at comprehension. You're embarrassing yourself and lack the wherewithal to even recognize it and have no business denigrating the intelligence of others.
I did appreciate the laugh at your expense, but it just gets super awkward, real quick. And hey, since no one is buying your cosplay as an intellectual, maybe fuck off and try sneaking Penthouse Forums into a kiddie schools, or something? Seems to be an important issue for you.
Oh, not for nothing, but the last person I voted for was Gary Johnson, and if you think the issue with these books is exclusive to MAGA, or even conservatives, you're even dummer than your reading ability suggests.
"Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You," by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds"
Really? Is every book not available in the library banned because public schools refuse to purchase it in mass quantities and teach it to children across the nation?
LOL. You sir have been the victim of progressive wordplay. The meaning of the word, banned, has now been twisted to include any material that has only been restricted from use in minors' environments, such as school. I especially liked your inclusion of the Readers Digest link. You bandy about the label, banned, then suggest a link for proof that has links to Amazon and others for their purchase. These publications are hardly "banned", as you claim.
Apologies. This a very short and incomplete list. Gotta grab a bite to eat and take a shit but i'll shoot you some more sites to reconnoiter after eating and shitting.
Christ, even Amazon has a special section with a list of banned books on their site! It's an actual marketing device!
Jeff Bezos: Stick it to the MAGA fucks and buy a banned book! That crazy billionaire. Bezos: typical lefty wokester!
The left changed the definition of "book banning" to include the "removal from publicly accessible locations" language once the left started marketing its LGBTQ books to kids and parents revolted.
"Making [books'] authorship or distribution a punishable act" is the thing to worry about and it's not happening here in the US and is not bloody likely either.
Get a grip Gnome! Determining what is and is not age appropriate reading for schoolchildren is not тАЬbook banning.тАЭ And as for тАЬbook burnings,тАЭ . . . thatтАЩs just your fever dream of being a brave resistance fighter against imaginary Nazis.
Yes it is. In an age where Johnny doesn't know how to read, I'd be pleased as punch if Johnny were reading Playboy. Anything. Anything at all.
For two decades the literature curriculums in the US have been dumbed down to the worst common denominators in the struggle to never ever offend anyone about anything.
And then people bemoan the fact that people don't read and can't engage in critical thinking. And that's in large part due to idiot parents who think THEY could do a better job of educating their kids than people who are trained to educate kids, who think school teachers are babysitters, and who don't want their children exposed to anything that might make them <<<gasp>>> ask questions.
тАЬBook banning in the U.S. is primarily driven by local and state-level entities, with a significant uptick in coordinated efforts since 2021. HereтАЩs a breakdown of the key players based on available data:
School Boards and Districts: Local school boards have broad discretion to remove books from libraries and curricula, often citing content deemed inappropriate, such as themes of race, gender, sexuality, or "obscenity." For example, in the 2023-2024 school year, PEN America recorded over 10,000 book bans across public schools, with 45% in Florida and 36% in Iowa, largely due to state laws like FloridaтАЩs HB 1069 and IowaтАЩs SF 496, which mandate removal of materials with тАЬsexual contentтАЭ or restrict discussions of LGBTQ+ identities.
Advocacy Groups: Conservative organizations like Moms for Liberty, No Left Turn in Education, and Citizens Defending Freedom have been pivotal, often mobilizing parents to challenge books. PEN America estimates these groups directly influenced at least 20% of book bans in 2021-2022, with Moms for Liberty linked to 58% of advocacy-led bans in 2022-2023. These groups distribute lists targeting books on race, LGBTQ+ themes, or social justice, frequently without reading the texts themselves.
State Legislators and Officials: Republican lawmakers in states like Texas, Florida, and South Carolina have pushed legislation or exerted political pressure to restrict books. For instance, Texas Representative Matt Krause sent a list of 850 books to schools for review, leading to hundreds of bans. Governors like Ron DeSantis have backed laws facilitating book removals, framing them as protecting students from тАЬindoctrination.тАЭ
Parents and Community Members: While only 16% of 2024 book challenges came from parents (per ALA data), their role is amplified by advocacy group support. Many challenges stem from organized campaigns rather than individual concerns, with 72% initiated by pressure groups, elected officials, or administrators.
Historical Context: Book bans arenтАЩt newтАФexamples include the Comstock Laws of 1873 and McCarthy-era censorshipтАФbut the current wave is notable for its scale and organization. Past bans targeted works like The Catcher in the Rye for language or Uncle TomтАЩs Cabin for its anti-slavery stance.
Counterpoint: Some argue bans are overstated or mischaracterized. The U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration dismissed 11 тАЬbook banтАЭ complaints in 2025, calling them a тАЬhoaxтАЭ and arguing schools have the right to remove тАЬage-inappropriateтАЭ materials. However, ALA and PEN America maintain bans are real and rising, often targeting marginalized voices (e.g., books by authors of color or LGBTQ+ writers).
Books commonly banned include The HandmaidтАЩs Tale, Beloved, All Boys ArenтАЩt Blue, and Gender Queer, often for addressing race, gender, or sexuality. Critics of bans, like the ACLU and PEN America, argue they violate First Amendment rights and limit diverse perspectives, while proponents claim they protect children from harmful content. The debate remains polarized, with legal battles ongoing, such as PEN AmericaтАЩs 2025 lawsuit against Rutherford County, Tennessee, for First Amendment violations.
This reflects a complex interplay of local control, political ideology, and organized activism, with no single тАЬwhoтАЭ but rather a network of actors shaping the censorship landscape.тАЭ
Gnomon - Do you advocate that children of any age be permitted access to alcoholic drinks? How about smoking cigarettes? Driving automobiles? Getting married? Signing legal documents?
Conflating schools' limitations to age appropriate reading material for children who haven't reached the age of majority with nation wide book banning is patently dishonest.
Conflating reading a book with driving a car, drinking alcohol or getting married is absurd.
As a kid, you COULDN'T have kept those books out of my hands, no matter how hard you tried. I read everything from The Diary of Anne Frank to Last Tango in Paris by the time I was 11.
Yet somehow, I didn't manage to grow up to be a pervert, serial killer, or a danger to society.
You know what IS a danger to society? People who don't read.
Actually, iтАЩve never used GROK, but thatтАЩs a great idea! And a great way to get my feet wet with GROK. I think IтАЩll pop over to X and ask GROK a question or two and post the answer verbatim, relying only just GROK materialтАФ-maybe IтАЩll even receive a тАЬlikeтАЭ from one of MuskтАЩs X crypto hookers!
If you mean attempting to shield their grade school children from explicitly homo-erotic books in their school libraries, yes. If you mean anything else youтАЩre spreading lies.
"If the information is not 'good,' burn the books."
Anything counter to their group narrative will be attacked and/or destroyed.
Sounds scary. Almost like facing Godzilla who has his own "group narrative" to implement.
Republicans are banning and burning books, not the Democrats. Stop spreading lies.
Please show me a list of banned books. Not a list of books banned from k-12 public school libraries, but actually banned (as in can't legally be published) books. I will start an underground publishing house for them.
Grok weighs in on book bans in the U.S.:
"Book banning in the U.S. is primarily driven by local and state-level entities, with a significant uptick in coordinated efforts since 2021. HereтАЩs a breakdown of the key players based on available data:
School Boards and Districts: Local school boards have broad discretion to remove books from libraries and curricula, often citing content deemed inappropriate, such as themes of race, gender, sexuality, or "obscenity." For example, in the 2023-2024 school year, PEN America recorded over 10,000 book bans across public schools, with 45% in Florida and 36% in Iowa, largely due to state laws like FloridaтАЩs HB 1069 and IowaтАЩs SF 496, which mandate removal of materials with тАЬsexual contentтАЭ or restrict discussions of LGBTQ+ identities.
Advocacy Groups: Conservative organizations like Moms for Liberty, No Left Turn in Education, and Citizens Defending Freedom have been pivotal, often mobilizing parents to challenge books. PEN America estimates these groups directly influenced at least 20% of book bans in 2021-2022, with Moms for Liberty linked to 58% of advocacy-led bans in 2022-2023. These groups distribute lists targeting books on race, LGBTQ+ themes, or social justice, frequently without reading the texts themselves.
State Legislators and Officials: Republican lawmakers in states like Texas, Florida, and South Carolina have pushed legislation or exerted political pressure to restrict books. For instance, Texas Representative Matt Krause sent a list of 850 books to schools for review, leading to hundreds of bans. Governors like Ron DeSantis have backed laws facilitating book removals, framing them as protecting students from тАЬindoctrination.тАЭ
Parents and Community Members: While only 16% of 2024 book challenges came from parents (per ALA data), their role is amplified by advocacy group support. Many challenges stem from organized campaigns rather than individual concerns, with 72% initiated by pressure groups, elected officials, or administrators.
Historical Context: Book bans arenтАЩt newтАФexamples include the Comstock Laws of 1873 and McCarthy-era censorshipтАФbut the current wave is notable for its scale and organization. Past bans targeted works like The Catcher in the Rye for language or Uncle TomтАЩs Cabin for its anti-slavery stance.
Counterpoint: Some argue bans are overstated or mischaracterized. The U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration dismissed 11 тАЬbook banтАЭ complaints in 2025, calling them a тАЬhoaxтАЭ and arguing schools have the right to remove тАЬage-inappropriateтАЭ materials. However, ALA and PEN America maintain bans are real and rising, often targeting marginalized voices (e.g., books by autof color or LGBTQ+ writers).
Books commonly banned include The HandmaidтАЩs Tale, Beloved, All Boys ArenтАЩt Blue, and Gender Queer, often for addressing race, gender, or sexuality. Critics of bans, like the ACLU and PEN America, argue they violate First Amendment rights and limit diverse perspectives, while proponents claim they protect children from harmful content. The debate remains polarized, with legal battles ongoing, such as PEN AmericaтАЩs 2025 lawsuit against Rutherford County, Tennessee, for First Amendment violations.
This reflects a complex interplay of local control, political ideology, and organized activism, with no single тАЬwhoтАЭ but rather a network of actors shaping the censorship landscape. If you want specifics on a state, book, or group, let me know.
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Removing books from school libraries--or even public libraries--doesn't count. It's just another dumb political football match. Anything a kid can't get in his school or public library is available online, probably on Amazon. It's not like the bad old days when the state burned copies of Ulysses. The courts have upheld published free speech since the trial of Naked Lunch in the early '60s.
All this bad noise about "book banning" gets tiresome, though it's important to keep an eye on real censorship and state control of information like we see with the moribund legacy press and news media and what Taibbi calls our attention to here--NPR and its ilk like the BBC, both of which are under threat of being cut off from the government teat.
Top-shelf MAGA dissembling.
Excited and very much looking forward to submitting a few manuscripts to "Actually Banned Books," the hot, new (and probably radical as hell!) underground publishing house started by Tom Wilcox, fearless Racket News commenter, gadfly, and all-round man-about-town!
https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/
Not one example of who, what governor entity banned any of these books. You were asked to exclude banned pornography from public schools.
You were asked to define "governor entity."
Your a pedantic dipshit, ever use an iPhone ??? Keep defending pornography in primary schools, now you go fuck off!!
lol. "You're," not "your." The first fuckin' word of your (you're???) comment!
You get 2 gold stars for that one!
And gosh, I guess that colors you--mainly, probably exclusively, hopefully not fatally--a dipshit. But who's (whose???) keeping score at home?
You remain a nitpicking pedantic dipshit! Just like all woke dipshits, you try and deflect. Keep validating the push to keep pornography, tranny story hour and тАЬtheyтАЩre not pedophiles but minor attracted peopleтАЭ. ThatтАЩs you and the sick assholes of your party.
SheeeeeetтАж.
I've never defended the pornography in primary schools. I've always been a harsh critic of the pornography in primary schools.
Most of the pornography in primary schools is outdated and frankly not-very-titillating. If I were a 5th-grader, and discussing the current state (not to mention volume) of the porno collection with the typical primary school librarian, I'd have to weigh in with a "color me unimpressed."
MAGA's in a rush to get rid of the existing porn so they can flood the market (or "zone," in Bannon-speak) with their own porn ($$$$). Trump and that pro wrestler lady Trump hired want to turn the primary schools into Epstein-inspired massage parlors. Not a bad idea, actually.
Opportunity, opportunity.
What is a "governor entity" ?
I don't believe I was asked to exclude banned pornography from public schools.
Who asked me to exclude banned pornography from public schools?
You don't meet my criteria for banned books. They need to be BANNED, as in publishers end up in jail, authors are in jail, the books are burned by public officials banned.
Fuck off.
"book banning...the practice of prohibiting or restricting the reading of certain books by the general public or by members of a local community or religious group. Books can be banned by means of their removal from publicly accessible locations (e.g, libraries), by their destruction (including the burning of printed books), or by making their authorship or distribution a punishable act. Books are typically banned by governments, but they can also be effectively banned by religious authorities, businesses, andтАФin rare casesтАФpowerful private individuals."
HereтАЩs the typical lefty wokester who makes the emotional, unfounded mud slinging claim assuming or hoping no one asks for specifics. When they do they deflect and gave a BS circular answer and doesnтАЩt answer the question because they canтАЩt.
They quickly resort to insults, ironically projections that best describe themselves. They live for the smug feeling of superiority, for "knowing" truth, which is actually regurgitation of mindless group think.
Again, fuck off.
Signed,
Your arrogant, much superior fellow citizen.
Superior at peeing sitting down perhaps.
Plenty more banned books. These are incomplete lists and list only the most popular books banned. I really should not have responded to your post---mostly disingenuous bullshit. Stuff we used to call a "lie." Back in the good 'ol days!
Really, no need to be a cunt about this at all.
https://pen.org/banned-books-list-
https://www.rd.com/list/banned-books/
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-50-most-banned-books-in-america/
I'm curious if you consider these "book bannings" at all different from having age restrictions on R-rated movies? Are these movies "banned" in your mind, even though any adult is free to take their child to see them? Just as anyone with an Amazon account (adult or minor) can order these "banned" books to their house.
Just trying to understand how your superior intellect and not-at-all cunty mind arrives at your conclusions.
Those aren't serious questions.
I donтАЩt have an opinion on banned books nor have I ever had an opinion on banned books. I merely provided examples of books that have been тАЬbannedтАЭ in response to another Racket commenter who seemed to be irritatingly surprised that there are, indeed, books in the U.S that have been banned by certain individuals, governments and organizations.
Care to take a crack at defining тАЬbannedтАЭ? Nobody here seems to have the slightest idea what it means.
I believe the discomposure by some (in a wide array of settings and by no means exclusive to this forum) is in large part due to the charged nature of the word use as it pertains to books, specifically. For many, it seems willfully obtuse to ignore this aspect.
So while the use of the word "banned" is technically correct, leaving out "...from elementary school libraries" is disingenuous at best, and at worst, a significant lie of omission. I once got banned from a casino, but didn't go around harping about being banned, purposefully leaving out the context so as to make it seem like my personhood had been stripped.
I think the obvious implication being made from this omission is to equate this particular banning with that of the Nazis, or even the evangelicals of the 90's. The problem is that this is not idealogical issue at all, or even a moral one(!) which can be seen by the broad support that crosses almost every demo. There's even a large contingent of the LGB community that sees both the drive to include these books, and the framing of the issue, for what it is. And for good reason!
I believe what I'm describing is illustrated well in my initial point - there's a reason we don't refer to r-rated movies as banned, when they are in every appreciable way, identical policies.
TLDR; your framing is ironically hysterical in much the same way as the evangelicals were back in the day.
Beat it, Poindexter. Beat it long and hard.
Only a MAGA asshole would (or could) compare and contrast casinos and books. For any argument.
Classic.
Only a child in elementary school, just learning to read, could whiff that bad at comprehension. You're embarrassing yourself and lack the wherewithal to even recognize it and have no business denigrating the intelligence of others.
I did appreciate the laugh at your expense, but it just gets super awkward, real quick. And hey, since no one is buying your cosplay as an intellectual, maybe fuck off and try sneaking Penthouse Forums into a kiddie schools, or something? Seems to be an important issue for you.
Oh, not for nothing, but the last person I voted for was Gary Johnson, and if you think the issue with these books is exclusive to MAGA, or even conservatives, you're even dummer than your reading ability suggests.
"Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You," by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds"
Really? Is every book not available in the library banned because public schools refuse to purchase it in mass quantities and teach it to children across the nation?
Fuck off.
Are you asking for specifics? And what question was asked of me that I didn't answer?
LOL. You sir have been the victim of progressive wordplay. The meaning of the word, banned, has now been twisted to include any material that has only been restricted from use in minors' environments, such as school. I especially liked your inclusion of the Readers Digest link. You bandy about the label, banned, then suggest a link for proof that has links to Amazon and others for their purchase. These publications are hardly "banned", as you claim.
You're only a victim if you believe you're a victim. I choose not to be a victim.
I'm perfectly willing to be corrected---what is your definition of "banned?"
Can you read?? You were asked for a list of books that you claim were banned. Not a definition of book banning. Go ahead, give us the list!
Hey! Lookie what I just found! A banned book masterlist! From the Kurt Vonnegut Library Foundation nonetheless!
More than 5,000 volumes to peruse! Jackpot, motherfucker!
https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/banned-books-week/
not one banned book on this website! Jackpot motherfucker!
Apologies. This a very short and incomplete list. Gotta grab a bite to eat and take a shit but i'll shoot you some more sites to reconnoiter after eating and shitting.
Christ, even Amazon has a special section with a list of banned books on their site! It's an actual marketing device!
Jeff Bezos: Stick it to the MAGA fucks and buy a banned book! That crazy billionaire. Bezos: typical lefty wokester!
https://www.kohllibrary.org/the-complete-list-of-banned-challenged-books-by-state/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_commonly_challenged_books_in_the_United_States
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/a45012950/banned-book-list/
https://www.ala.org/bbooks
https://pen.org/book-bans/pen-america-index-of-school-book-bans-2023-2024/
https://www.aj.com/
1346904222660975
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1245037718/book-bans-2023-pen-america
https://barnesreview.org/amazons-banned-book-full-list/
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=banned+books
The left changed the definition of "book banning" to include the "removal from publicly accessible locations" language once the left started marketing its LGBTQ books to kids and parents revolted.
"Making [books'] authorship or distribution a punishable act" is the thing to worry about and it's not happening here in the US and is not bloody likely either.
Get a grip Gnome! Determining what is and is not age appropriate reading for schoolchildren is not тАЬbook banning.тАЭ And as for тАЬbook burnings,тАЭ . . . thatтАЩs just your fever dream of being a brave resistance fighter against imaginary Nazis.
Yes it is. In an age where Johnny doesn't know how to read, I'd be pleased as punch if Johnny were reading Playboy. Anything. Anything at all.
For two decades the literature curriculums in the US have been dumbed down to the worst common denominators in the struggle to never ever offend anyone about anything.
And then people bemoan the fact that people don't read and can't engage in critical thinking. And that's in large part due to idiot parents who think THEY could do a better job of educating their kids than people who are trained to educate kids, who think school teachers are babysitters, and who don't want their children exposed to anything that might make them <<<gasp>>> ask questions.
More akin to a simple medieval peasant fucking with Savonarola and the Piagnoni.
A simple-minded peasant using Grok remains simple minded.
Grok weighs in on book bans in the U.S.:
тАЬBook banning in the U.S. is primarily driven by local and state-level entities, with a significant uptick in coordinated efforts since 2021. HereтАЩs a breakdown of the key players based on available data:
School Boards and Districts: Local school boards have broad discretion to remove books from libraries and curricula, often citing content deemed inappropriate, such as themes of race, gender, sexuality, or "obscenity." For example, in the 2023-2024 school year, PEN America recorded over 10,000 book bans across public schools, with 45% in Florida and 36% in Iowa, largely due to state laws like FloridaтАЩs HB 1069 and IowaтАЩs SF 496, which mandate removal of materials with тАЬsexual contentтАЭ or restrict discussions of LGBTQ+ identities.
Advocacy Groups: Conservative organizations like Moms for Liberty, No Left Turn in Education, and Citizens Defending Freedom have been pivotal, often mobilizing parents to challenge books. PEN America estimates these groups directly influenced at least 20% of book bans in 2021-2022, with Moms for Liberty linked to 58% of advocacy-led bans in 2022-2023. These groups distribute lists targeting books on race, LGBTQ+ themes, or social justice, frequently without reading the texts themselves.
State Legislators and Officials: Republican lawmakers in states like Texas, Florida, and South Carolina have pushed legislation or exerted political pressure to restrict books. For instance, Texas Representative Matt Krause sent a list of 850 books to schools for review, leading to hundreds of bans. Governors like Ron DeSantis have backed laws facilitating book removals, framing them as protecting students from тАЬindoctrination.тАЭ
Parents and Community Members: While only 16% of 2024 book challenges came from parents (per ALA data), their role is amplified by advocacy group support. Many challenges stem from organized campaigns rather than individual concerns, with 72% initiated by pressure groups, elected officials, or administrators.
Historical Context: Book bans arenтАЩt newтАФexamples include the Comstock Laws of 1873 and McCarthy-era censorshipтАФbut the current wave is notable for its scale and organization. Past bans targeted works like The Catcher in the Rye for language or Uncle TomтАЩs Cabin for its anti-slavery stance.
Counterpoint: Some argue bans are overstated or mischaracterized. The U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration dismissed 11 тАЬbook banтАЭ complaints in 2025, calling them a тАЬhoaxтАЭ and arguing schools have the right to remove тАЬage-inappropriateтАЭ materials. However, ALA and PEN America maintain bans are real and rising, often targeting marginalized voices (e.g., books by authors of color or LGBTQ+ writers).
Books commonly banned include The HandmaidтАЩs Tale, Beloved, All Boys ArenтАЩt Blue, and Gender Queer, often for addressing race, gender, or sexuality. Critics of bans, like the ACLU and PEN America, argue they violate First Amendment rights and limit diverse perspectives, while proponents claim they protect children from harmful content. The debate remains polarized, with legal battles ongoing, such as PEN AmericaтАЩs 2025 lawsuit against Rutherford County, Tennessee, for First Amendment violations.
This reflects a complex interplay of local control, political ideology, and organized activism, with no single тАЬwhoтАЭ but rather a network of actors shaping the censorship landscape.тАЭ
Gnomon - Do you advocate that children of any age be permitted access to alcoholic drinks? How about smoking cigarettes? Driving automobiles? Getting married? Signing legal documents?
Conflating schools' limitations to age appropriate reading material for children who haven't reached the age of majority with nation wide book banning is patently dishonest.
Conflating reading a book with driving a car, drinking alcohol or getting married is absurd.
As a kid, you COULDN'T have kept those books out of my hands, no matter how hard you tried. I read everything from The Diary of Anne Frank to Last Tango in Paris by the time I was 11.
Yet somehow, I didn't manage to grow up to be a pervert, serial killer, or a danger to society.
You know what IS a danger to society? People who don't read.
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If you mean attempting to shield their grade school children from explicitly homo-erotic books in their school libraries, yes. If you mean anything else youтАЩre spreading lies.
Now, THIS is propaganda!
What kind of alternate reality are you tranny-lovers living in?
My local leftist public library opened a new library with ALL NEW BOOKS. There is nothing on the right that compares to this level of book banning.
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My local right-wing bookstore doesnтАЩt have any booksтАФ-just a bunch of old porno mags.
All new books!
The leftists school boards in Canada are getting rid of ALL OLD BOOKS. All of them. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-school-board-library-book-weeding-1.6964332
Dude, question: how fucked up are you?