Banning and Burning Books

ALL ACROSS AMERICA there is a dangerous, harmful movement to ban books in public schols and libraries. The movement is on America's far religious right, unsurprisingly, the basic conservative Republican evangelical Christian Trump MAGA mob. AKA, the "bad guys". the books they try to challenge, censure, and ban are invariably books which discuss promote progressive values, values such as equality for gays and transgdner people, the reality of human made climate change and reversing it, cultural, ethnic, and religious tolerance and iversity, and so forth. An intelligent observer will note not only that the conservative community is on the wrong side of every one of these issues, but is also trying to force America to embrace their reprehensible ideas and beliefs. In response which is perhpas defiant, America's libraries are sponsering a "forbidden book week", in whcih they will evidently create and provide displays of books which have either been challenged, censored, or outright banned in schools and libraries by the self proclaimed morally superior religious devout. The bibliophile, academic, educational community in America strongly opposes and abhores all book banning, of course, since intelligent people always hate censorship, and evidently wishes to make it well known precisely what books and sorts of books are under attack. As an example, a cutely written novel for children titled "Not All boys Are Blue" was authored by a balck gay man who shares his experiences growing up black and queer, as he describes himself, and the various challenges presented by his cultural environment to his self actuallization and fulfillment. Ostenisbly, this is exactly the sort of book which could enlighten, educate, and inspire young readers; but since it encourages acceptance of black and gay people, its a no go in conservadom(dumb). In American conservadumb, the evils of racism, the necessity of anti-racism, and acceptance of gay and transgender people must never be taught in school.