A Frenzy of Book Banning [telecom]

Nov 13, 2021 Last reply: 4 years ago 1 Replies

By Michelle Goldberg



Virginia's Spotsylvania County School Board this week voted unanimously to have books with "sexually explicit" material removed from school library shelves. For two members of the school board, this didn't go far enough; they wanted to see the books incinerated. "I'm sure we've got hundreds of people out there that would like to see those books before we burn them," said one of the members, Kirk Twigg. "Just so we can identify, within our community, that we are eradicating this bad stuff."



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Ignorance is bliss, I suppose... these folks must not be up to snuff on the not-so-pretty history of book burning:

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