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The Washington Post researched all book challenges filed in the 2021-2022 school year with the 153 school districts. In total, officials in more than 100 school systems spread across 37 states provided 1,065 complaints totaling 2,506 pages.

The Post found that 43 percent targeted titles with LGBTQ characters or themes, while 36 percent targeted titles featuring characters of color or dealing with issues of race and racism and 61 percent of challenges referenced sexual content as a concern.

A small number of people were responsible for most of the book challenges, The Post found. Individuals who filed 10 or more complaints were responsible for two-thirds of all challenges. In some cases, these serial filers relied on a network of volunteers gathered together under the aegis of conservative parents' groups such as Moms for Liberty.

Amazingly, the Post analysis of book challenges from across the nation shows the majority were filed by just 11 people.

11 people?

Umm.

The Bible, though filled with rape, incest, torture, slavery, and bestiality was not challenged by the 11.

Amanda Gorman, who delivered the inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb, was advised that the poem was banned from an elementary school in Miami-Dade county, Florida, after a single complaint was filed.

Evidently, the person who filed the complaint has ties to a white supremacist organization.

Don't want to offend those white supremacists, dontchaknow.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/2...

https://twitter.com/TheAmandaGorman/status/1661151...

Amazingly, the Post analysis of book challenges from across the nation shows the majority were filed by just 11 people.


And the large majority of people in the U.S. are pro-abortion, yet the minority prevailed in overturning Roe v Wade, with the consequences now emerging in state after state. The majority of people in the U.S. want logical gun-control regulations to minimize the risk of lethal weapons reaching the wrong hands. Trump won the presidency in 2016 in the Electoral College despite Hillary Clinton having won the popular vote (though that's certainly not the first time that unfortunate discrepancy has occurred). And look at what permitted gerrymandering has done to silence so many local majorities on election day.

A democracy rests on majority rule. So.....where are we?

The majority of people in the U.S. want logical gun-control regulations to minimize the risk of lethal weapons reaching the wrong hands. - Sheila

If only. That is just camel's nose. The majority of gun control advocates were prefer a total ban coupled with confiscation. It is true but for the obvious reason they can't admit it.


Trump won the presidency in 2016 in the Electoral College despite Hillary Clinton having won the popular vote (though that's certainly not the first time that unfortunate discrepancy has occurred). - more sheils

It is not an unfortunate discrepancy, it is a feature our founding fathers wisely included in the Constitution. Without it, we would governed by Calif, NY and Illinois. The rest of country would be more or less disenfranchised.


And look at what permitted gerrymandering has done to silence so many local majorities on election day. - sheila

Agree with you here. The shape of some districts is absurd for the very problem you point out, and it cuts both both ways. But I am not sure how to remedy. Perhaps something whereby the number of districts is determined by population but shape having some math and geometry rules applied. Probably would require a constitutional amendment.


A democracy rests on majority rule. So.....where are we? - sheila

Fortunately we are a Republic, not a democracy.

I knew someone (loooong ago) who made it a priority to read any book that was banned from a library. He was better at it than I was. I have the same attitude, and did read Catcher in the Rye and a few others. I actually didn't find the book that interesting, but because they said I shouldn't read it, I did.

The majority of gun control advocates were prefer a total ban coupled with confiscation.

Unless you can provide a credible source, I'm calling BS on that one. Even a majority of NRA members favor some limitations. Which means they are "gun control advocates".

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/08/1110239487/most-gun...

They differ on how restrictive the limits should be, but the overwhelming majority of Americans favor at least some.

Confiscation isn't going to happen, so don't even worry about that. SCOTUS would shoot down any attempt at that. So that's like worrying "what if the moon falls down on us". Not going to happen, so don't waste synapses worrying about it.

And, as albaby explained to you, you shouldn't even worry about being attacked in your home. The odds of that are vanishingly small. Non-zero, but miniscule. The firearm(s) you possess are more likely to be used on someone in your household than an intruder.

Probably would require a constitutional amendment.

Nope. California has an independent entity do it. The Constitution doesn't have anything to say about how you draw your districts. That's a state matter.

https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/california-redist....

The independent California Citizens Redistricting Commission (CCRC) uses the new census data to redraw the Congressional, State Senate, State Assembly, and State Board of Equalization district boundaries.

That is a better way. Keep the politicians out of it. It might also be interesting to impose geometric rules (e.g. no curves unless they follow a river or state boundary, no more than 8 sides to any district). And a non-political board deciding seems reasonable.

If only. That is just camel's nose. The majority of gun control advocates were prefer a total ban coupled with confiscation. It is true but for the obvious reason they can't admit it. - Mike

This is just not so Mike. Look at the polls. I'm a gun control advocate and I don't want a total ban.

I'm a gun control advocate and I don't want a total ban.

Me too.
I enjoy skeet, trap and support those who want to hunt as I've enjoyed hunting.
Diminishing the phrase 'well-regulated' is a colossal blunder.

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