this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2025
114 points (99.1% liked)

Books

6415 readers
43 users here now

A community for all things related to Books.

Rules

  1. Be Nice. No personal attacks or hate speech.
  2. No spam. All posts should be related to books.

Official Bingo Posts:

Related Communities

Community icon by IconsBox (from freepik.com)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
dresden@discuss.online
dresden_do@lemmy.world
JaymesRS@literature.cafe
JaymesRS@lemmy.world
114
‘State-driven censorship’: new wave of book bans hits Florida school districts (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 days ago by NightOwl@lemmy.ca to c/books@lemmy.world
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The books taken off the school shelves included The Diary of Anne Frank

"We are literally Nazis but you aren't allowed to think it"

[ It just seems like a 100% unambiguous admisison, though I'm aware there were many many similar cases in the past years ]