https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1222539335/banned-books-high-school
Dropping that its a suburb of houston certainly sounds ill-advised. We have several but if they put their minds to it I’m sure they’d figure it out inside of a few days. They love to spend (waste) energy on Very Important^tm shit like this
If it’s a Houston suburb there are 100% a large number of little chudlets and psychotic evangelical Christians that frequent this classroom. One of them will turn the teacher in. The shelf will disappear, a great teacher will be fired, and the books will be destroyed all because some dumbass liberal without two brain cells to rub together couldn’t resist the allure of running a 3 minute spot on NPR that will be immediately forgotten
Or Cypress, or Kingwood, Conroe, Woodlands, Sugarland… I struggle to think of a place more cursed and reactionary than a Houston suburb. So glad I left that shithole behind.
The secret bookshelf began in late 2021, when then-state representative Matt Krause sent public schools a list of 850 books he wanted banned from schools. They might, he said, "make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of their race or sex."
I’m going to assume the race and sex he’s worried about being distressed is white men.
"There Mr Governor, that book made fun of missionary-sex-where-nobody-enjoys-it!"
Putting the dust jacket of Infinite Jest on my copy of Das Kapital to confuse the NSA when they raid my house.
Sir we have the wrong house, this man is a loyal American.
How can you tell?
He owns 30 copies of George W Bush’s Decision Points
thank you for your service
This is gonna play out as well as the time Orange is the New Black put a real immigration helpline in their TV show and ICE immediately had it shut down.
