Penguin Random House suing florida school district over censorship of library books

[butters]

Writers' group PEN America joins with major publisher (only the LARGEST in the country!) in federal lawsuit against a county school district in florida after it banned certain books from its libraries

The federal lawsuit alleges the Escambia County School District and its School Board are violating the First Amendment through the removal of 10 books from library shelves.

“Books have the capacity to change lives for the better, and students in particular deserve equitable access to a wide range of perspectives. Censorship, in the form of book bans like those enacted by Escambia County, are a direct threat to democracy and our Constitutional rights,” Nihar Malaviya, CEO of Penguin Random House, said in a statement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/p...1&cvid=d7d166dbfbad4fd99a928e6c233e6b7d&ei=53

 

[RoryN]

Excellent.

Meanwhile, Judy Blume has her bookstore in Key West, and is making sure to feature banned books. She's a national treasure.

 

[butters]

Excellent.

Meanwhile, Judy Blume has her bookstore in Key West, and is making sure to feature banned books. She's a national treasure.

yeah, she's taking her stand

i wonder who published the other books being banned, like Holocaust and slavery/Black History publications... if separate from Random House then they should be considering joining—or adding to—the undergoing litigation

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

My books are not in the Escambia School District libraries either. I think I’ll sue them. Lol.

 

[ll74]

The favoritism shown to certain publishers over others is clear as day.

 

[HisArpy]

My books are not in the Escambia School District libraries either. I think I’ll sue them. Lol.

Yeah, they're suing because Florida didn't buy books and they're claiming that's a violation of the 1st Amendment.

Since when is not buying a book a violation of a Constitutional Right?

 

[ll74]

Yeah, they're suing because Florida didn't buy books and they're claiming that's a violation of the 1st Amendment.

Since when is not buying a book a violation of a Constitutional Right?

That's not why they are suing.

 

[butters]

pity the student lovers of literature for meanwhile, in Orange County Florida, a removal of some 673 titles has seen the loss of these classics:

1.) Paradise Lost by John Milton.
a 1667 poem by John Milton about Adam, Eve and Satan (too racy for desantis?)

2.) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
American military satire

3.) Swann's Way by Marcel Proust.
the first and best-known volume in Proust’s seven-title work In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), which is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest literary achievements of all time. In these works, Proust looks back—with a combination of nostalgia and regret—to the relatively peaceful, culture-rich era of French history starting in the 1870s and ending with the build-up to World War I

4.) Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.
a nineteenth century tale of working class poverty—a Hardy masterpiece of english literature

5.) The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca.
By the great Spanish playwright, this tells the tale of a repressive widow forcing her 5 unmarried daughters to remain in mourning for their father, sequestered on the estate, for 8 years which has some consequential results ending in violence.

6.) The Quiet American by Graham Greene.

A prophetic novella that warned about the growing dangers of American involvement in Vietnam back in the 1950s.

7.) Beloved by Toni Morrison.
winner of the Pulitzer prize, a masterpiece looking at the practice od slavery in pre Civil War America

8.) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark.
yes, that's right, this well beloved and represented novel warning of the issues about getting too enamoured of fascism is no longer available to students in good ol' O.C

9.) East of Eden by John Steinbeck.
uh huh. you did just read that

10.) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
a famous and dystopian tale of a society that genetically engineers itself to the point of mindlessness

i'm sure, though, that the Bible is still there, with all its incest, child-murder, torture, death-by-stoning, slavery, execution of 'witches', so soooooo much begetting, Jesus promoting the drinking of alcoholic beverages, fires, god's flood wiping out almost the entire population, famines, plagues, vengeance, and—lest we forget—ownership of women


https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertain...p&cvid=e885f3769b0447a393087ecb194f7e8e&ei=54

 

[butters]

also gone:
The Color Purple,
plus

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and multiple titles by Toni Morrison such as The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and Song of Solomon.

plus:

John Grisham’s The Firm and several novels of Stephen King, Jodi Picoult, Colleen Hoover, Ellen Hopkins, George R.R. Martin, and Nicholas Sparks were also cut, as well as fantasy author Sarah J. Maas’ entire A Court of Thorns and Roses series—which is also being banned from districts in other states.

ok, Nicholas Sparks is something of a surprise amongst those others, and banning Stephen King is a crime in and of itself. boo!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...p&cvid=5643c563c4ae4969b72de47951df09c0&ei=21

 

[jaF0]

All of Stephen King's crap should be banned from everywhere worldwide.

In fact they should all be destroyed, including any originals.

 

[butters]

All of Stephen King's crap should be banned from everywhere worldwide.

In fact they should all be destroyed, including any originals.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!