Removed works include Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’; no individual reasoning given for books’ removal.

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The purge of books from Orange County Public Schools, in Orlando, over the course of the past semester is the latest consequence of a conservative movement across the country — and strongest in Florida — to rid public and school libraries of materials deemed offensive. While the vast majority of such challenged and removed books involve race, gender and sexuality, several Jewish books have previously been caught in the dragnet.

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          It looks increasingly and disturbingly likely that we will see some sort of second civil war, this time between the (mostly) southern and midwestern fascists and the (mostly) coastal progressives.

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    “materials deemed offensive” my ass!

    They’re systematically removing everything that doesn’t support their 1700s worldview of cishet white Christians being the default humans whom everything and everyone belongs to and it’s WAY past time for non-fascist media to acknowledge it!

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      They’re systematically removing everything that doesn’t support their 1700s worldview of cishet white Christians men being the default humans whom everything and everyone belongs to

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    Cowards do cowardly thing. News at 11.

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    “Trump is quoting fascists!”

    “Can you back up your assertion with real book citations, yeah, didn’t think so. You’re all just part of the woke Internet.”

    /s

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    Maybe we should round up the conservatives and send them to re-education camps. I don’t think anyone in any history book has ever done something like that to any groups of people, so it should be no problem. What’s the worst that could happen?