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Looking at the 2022 banned books list from Texas, I was shocked to see 'The Diary of a Young Girl' by Anne Frank was on it.
I found this in a report from the American Library Association, which noted it was challenged for being 'sexually explicit' and 'too depressing' for students.
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the_dakota4d ago
Seen this kind of thing happen at my local library meetings too. People get scared of hard history and want to hide it from kids. Calling Anne Frank's diary explicit just shows they didn't even read it, they just want to control the story. It feels like we're fighting the same old battles about who gets to decide what's true.
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elliotr394d ago
Remember when they said reading would rot our brains. Guess they meant reading about real human suffering might make us think too hard. My own diary from that age was way more explicit, and it was just about my weird neighbor's lawn gnomes.
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