As a writer, I’m 100% censorship - in general, anyway. I mean, there are things that are completely inappropriate for print, but these days, I’m noticing that book banning, is everywhere, regardless of whether one is from the left or right side of the political spectrum. On one side, you have people wanting to ban things as innocent as authors who are not of European heritage (or rather, Anglo-Protestant heritage) and/or books by LGBTQ+ authors (and books featuring such characters). On the other side, you have people who don’t want their children READ books by, say, Dr. Seuss or Roald Dahl because of their political beliefs. Seriously, people, what SHOULD the kids read? They can’t read the Bible, no sir/ma’am! It’s RELIGION. Or, it’s JUST TOO VIOLENT (Plagues? Killing of the First Born? Child abandonment? Locusts? And that’s just EXODUS!)! No Shakespeare, nothing by EUROPEAN authors! Heck, we can’t even read To Kill a Mockingbird, which, by the way, DEFINITELY teaches a lesson on racism. Do you know how I learned about segregation and what it might have been like to be Black in the south during Jim Crow?
Book Censorship Exists on Both Sides
Book Censorship Exists on Both Sides
Book Censorship Exists on Both Sides
As a writer, I’m 100% censorship - in general, anyway. I mean, there are things that are completely inappropriate for print, but these days, I’m noticing that book banning, is everywhere, regardless of whether one is from the left or right side of the political spectrum. On one side, you have people wanting to ban things as innocent as authors who are not of European heritage (or rather, Anglo-Protestant heritage) and/or books by LGBTQ+ authors (and books featuring such characters). On the other side, you have people who don’t want their children READ books by, say, Dr. Seuss or Roald Dahl because of their political beliefs. Seriously, people, what SHOULD the kids read? They can’t read the Bible, no sir/ma’am! It’s RELIGION. Or, it’s JUST TOO VIOLENT (Plagues? Killing of the First Born? Child abandonment? Locusts? And that’s just EXODUS!)! No Shakespeare, nothing by EUROPEAN authors! Heck, we can’t even read To Kill a Mockingbird, which, by the way, DEFINITELY teaches a lesson on racism. Do you know how I learned about segregation and what it might have been like to be Black in the south during Jim Crow?