First They Came For Calvin & Hobbes, And We Peed On Them. -- Wonkette

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https://www.wonkette.com/p/first-they-came-for-calvin-and-hobbes

Yep, another school censorship roundup.

One of Calvin’s many bathtub escapes, only reason we can think that the books were banned in Monroe County, Tennessee, schools. (Image by Bill Watterson. Fair use, we’re pretty sure.)

The rightwing Christian nationalist drive to censor nearly everything continues nationwide, so America’s kids should be plenty safe from bad ideas, freeing up time for them to find places to hide from school shooters. In Tennessee, a new state law has led school districts to purge hundreds of books from their libraries for naked drawings and statues, sex scenes of any sort, and other unspeakable crimes.

And in Florida, rightwing members of the state Board of Education threatened and browbeat a school superintendent because they were mad he hadn’t simply banned 55 books outright, but had, in accordance with state law, temporarily removed the books for review by the school’s librarians to determine whether they were age-appropriate. But they couldn’t be age-appropriate, because the board had already declared them “pornographic.”

So much to ban! So few brains!

Tennessee: The Volunteer (To Burn Books) State

In Tennessee, the state Lege voted in 2024 to amend a 2022 law that only vaguely said school library materials must be “suitable for the age and maturity levels” of schoolchildren. The amendment got very specific, directing schools to remove materials that “in whole or in part” contain any “nudity, or descriptions or depictions of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sadomasochistic abuse.” As a result, books had to be removed if they included any nakedness or discussion of sex at all, regardless of context or the works’ overall literary value, and no leeway for librarians to decide. If there’s one thing Moms for Censorship know, it’s that school librarians and English teachers are all Marxist porn-lovers who want to destroy children’s values and abolish Christianity.

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Florida: Board Of Education Tries To Enforce Failed Book Ban Law By Screaming At School Leaders

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1. The repubs started focusing on filling Boards of Education back in the 80s.

Meanwhile, our side was running from the word liberal cuz a two-bit actor poked fun at it.