Objectively, it's far more troubling that they're banning Toni Morrison and David Levithan and Art Spiegelman and any books that even hint at representing the right's Horsemen of the Apocalypse

But there's something so completely batshit about banning _Calvin and Hobbes_, a comic strip so family friendly that it ran uncensored in the most conservative newspapers in the country for more than a decade

https://pen.org/magic-tree-house-author-calvin-and-hobbes-among-hundreds-of-tennessee-book-bans/

‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America

The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

PEN America

@kims Agree that this is INSANE. Blood pressure going to the roof.

Random thought: do you think they're playing 4D Chess and the best way to encourage a kid to read something is to ban it?

@MGKatz036
Lol, absolutely not

They don't even realize that the most subversive part of Calvin & Hobbes is all the anti-capitalism

@kims the funniest trope is banning Fahrenheit 451.