GOP Extremists Are Banning Books

While the whole country is facing a teacher and substitute shortage, many extremist school board members are deciding it would be a better use of time and resources to ban books, instead.

As we already know, many of the same right-wingers who perpetrated and applaud the Jan. 6 attack are fighting a new front in our school boards. The reasoning given by the extremely conservative school board members for the ban of important classics—especially those dealing with race, gender, and sexuality—is to prevent children from seeing "pornography and inappropriate content." Additionally, while our schools are already in a funding and teacher crisis, Republican officials are threatening to pull money from their local library systems because they carry "homosexual materials" against Christian values.