Blisteringly funny list of what shows may or may not be censored and why. But then maybe not so funny.
Opinion | Why your school board will object to your high school musical
#theatre #censorship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/04/alexandra-petri-school-board-object-high-school-musical/
Ted Cruz didn't want the voters to decide.
Ted Cruz didn't want the House to decide.
Ted Cruz didn't want the Electoral College to decide.
Ted Cruz wanted a made-up "commission" to decide who the president would be.
The reality of the “parents’ rights” movement is that it is meant to empower a conservative and reactionary minority of parents to dictate education and curriculums to the rest of the community. It is, in essence, an institutionalization of the heckler’s veto, in which a single parent — or any individual, really — can remove hundreds of books or shut down lessons on the basis of the political discomfort they feel. “Parents’ rights,” in other words, is when some parents have the right to dominate all the others. - Jamelle Bouie
My hero, Jamie Raskin: "It's amazing to me to see politicians who defend assault weapons after the massacres at Columbine, after Parkland, after Sandy Hook, after Uvalde, after Santa Fe, that they are going to keep America's children safe by banning The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984."
Said more Republicans should be “reading books and fewer should be censoring books.”