@QasimRashid I am really lost with #USA shenanigans nowadays. Anyone from there care to explain what legal ground is used to ban this book? Or is it the US don't have laws anymore? I think I stopped following when the penny finally dropped on the consequences of Trump's #SupremeCourt nominations.

@sheislaurence @QasimRashid This stuff isn't really new here. This book in particular is often on the chopping block. They don't make it so you can't buy it or read it. They just eliminate it from schools and libraries. I've been around almost 50 years and this has just always been a thing here. "Mom? Why are they burning copies of Fahrenheit 451?"

@crazyeddie @sheislaurence @QasimRashid
I grew up in Texas, and the Diary of Anne Frank was required reading. I remember my senior year as a school field trip, we went to see Schindler's List followed by the holocaust museum. This was in the 90s.

@Mama_H @sheislaurence @QasimRashid Yeah, and I think it's still done now in many places. Back then there were plenty of the same sorts that wants to ban and burn books. Saw some burnings on the news and pre-Karen blowing up about the children. They were smaller stories that we mostly ignored after being disgusted a while. The Internet has made it so these people get a wider audience and can band together in bigger groups--that's about the extent of change from my view.