‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America
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The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.

Calvin reading book and raising eyebrow

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    5 months ago

    Makes sense, a bare butt is inherently pornographic.

    Remember when John Ashcroft covered up the statue of Lady Justice because she has a boobie out? These puritanical prudes are so fucking weird.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      Well, if he didn’t cover up that naked boob he would have to see it and be aroused and then how could he do his job? /s

    • dont_sell_my_data@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Honestly, the attorney general hiding the statue of lady justice is more evocative than any fiction humans could invent. Soon our silver towers will tarnish and human remains will be added to our burnt offerings….