Cancel culture and censorship are in overdrive, as right-wing extremists seek to ban books in schools…
From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/04/09/more-than-1500-books-have-been-banned-in-public-schools-and-a-u-s-house-panel-asks-why/?
Republicans love cancel culture, this time they want to cancel a word, ”equity”…
From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/04/04/montana-code-of-ethics-for-educators-erupted-with-just-the-addition-of-the-word-equity/?
Politically-motivated Montana AG Austin Knudsen seeks to cancel right of private business GoFundMe to make decisions it feel are best…
So much for free enterprise and public safety. The Daily Montanan provides more information: https://dailymontanan.com/briefs/austin-knudsen-launches-investigation-into-gofundme/?
Former Montana Governor Marc Racicot summons courage and joins Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in denouncing Republican National Committee attempts to cancel Republican lawmakers for speaking the truth…
More here, from The Hill: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/594234-ex-rnc-chair-pens-open-letter-to-mcdaniel-you-will-regret-censure-of-cheney
Kids fight back against censorship and cancel culture by forming banned book clubs…
An intersting read, from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/07/banned-book-club-pennsylvania-animal-farm?
Right-wing book banners attempt to cancel reading choices for students and reality-based education…
Informative read here, from CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/26/tennessee-school-board-bans-holocaust-comic-maus-by-art-spiegelman.html
Talk about cancel culture, well-funded right-wing extremists are trying to squash free speech and free thought by attacking books…
Good reads here from the Daily Montanan and The Guardian: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/01/23/billings-public-schools-to-decide-whether-to-pull-two-novels-from-districts-libraries/? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/24/us-conservatives-campaign-books-ban-schools?