When you tell children they mustn’t do something, some fraction will rush out to do it. As with CRT, book bannings have aroused interest among those who would have never noticed without these fake moral panics. Maus is currently backordered from the publisher through the end of March while they print more.
Teens come out for newly created Kutztown Banned Book Club
Reading Eagle, Jan 13, 2022—Joslyn Diffenbaugh, a 14-year-old Kutztown 8th grader, created this club after reading about public outcry to ban books in schools nationwide.
Adults, of course, too.
Ali’s next book, for this Sunday, is To Kill a Mockingbird, which White Supremacists hate, of course. However, a lot of Blacks object to the White hero/helpless Black framing, as also in Huckleberry Finn. The author couldn’t help it, of course. She wrote from her personal experience. But there is a point there, and we can be glad that we are getting more of the stories from the Blacks involved, not just heroic beakthrough figures of old like Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.