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‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans

‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America

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‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans

1mo ago

‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans

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Every time you find out the reasons why or figure out the criteria of why the ban is in place for any book .... the Christian Bible should also be banned for the same reasons.
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Calvin and Hobbes? Wow.
- and Fahrenheit 451.
  Amazing, isn't it?
  
  Oh the one about banning books (among other things currently happening IRL)?
  (sorry I just had to state the obvious here)
- Apparently not age appropriate. I wonder what specifically triggered the snowflakes?
This country has a lot to reconcile if responsible adults ever get back in power and start fixing things.
I only read through Maus yesterday. I'm not sure what left me more haunted - some of the recollections, or the reading of Wikipedia about the camps and extermination afterwards.
It's a disgrace that reminders of past human mistakes and atrocities are suppressed.
- It's a disgrace that reminders of past human mistakes and atrocities are suppressed.
  We still have the bible for that /s
Every time you see a book ban, buy or download the book for posterity.
What kind of monster bans Calvin and Hobbes!?
- Authoritarians/Fascists. It's not about the content of the books, it's about the control of the people.
WHAT DID MAGIC TREEHOUSE DO?

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