Trevor takes a look at the latest culture war tearing apart America’s schools: book bans. #DailyShow
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Kinda missing trevor right now.
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[00:00] Book Ban Controversy in the US Schools
– Parents and politicians are concerned about the books available in schools.
– The American Library Association has tracked more than 230 book challenges nationwide since the start of the school year.
– Some school districts are removing books from libraries.
[02:24] Backfired Book Bans
– Banning books can have the opposite effect, making teenagers want to read them more.
– Parents have historically challenged books in schools for various reasons.
– Recently, the number and types of targeted books have increased significantly.
[04:21] Targeted Books in Book Ban Trend
– Books on race, gender, sexuality, emotions, and history are being targeted in recent book bans.
– Banning these categories would leave very few books available in schools.
– The example of banning a book about Ruby Bridges highlights the absurdity of the trend.
[06:15] Culture War Motivations Behind Book Bans
– Book bans are not a coincidence, but a strategy to win over voters with cultural issues.
– Politicians prioritize winning over debating complex political issues.
– This tactic aims to punish those who disagree, rather than win arguments.
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The last book banned in Nee Zealand was in 2018 and it was a drug cookbook. Books don’t get removed from libraries as long as they are legal.
I promise you there is not a single person that went to school for library science because they wanted to be on the front lines of America's march towards headassery…
we are living in ridiculous times
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I work in a library and I love books! But to ban and burn books is absolutely absurd!
He was taking books out of context. What an idiot!!!
He’s absolutely right. Making something forbidden, makes them want it more. All banned books have high ratings on GoodReads etc
Do groomers not understand the word banned? Who is stopping parents from giving their kids any books they want?
Are you doing this to keep your job? Man be real, those books are eroding morals and teaching kids that wrong is right…
The Nazis did this. More dumbing down of America!
destroying reputations, cenceling opinions, and denying the right of freedom of speech is of the left. Funny how double standard they are.
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"I cannot live without books,"
Thomas Jefferson, 1815.
I'd bet if there was a; how to shot up your school book; it would be OKed!
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This is not about Banning Books. In our modern world with the technology you have, you can't ban books. You can make deliberate choices to stock books on the limited real estate of your libraries but they cannot "ban" books. I wish the media would get their minds away from inflammatory language use their brains instead of parroting special interest groups.
"This was just a prelude, where books are burned, people will also be burned in the end" wrote the poet Heinrich Heine (1797-1856).
They just did this at the local public library. So it has left school’s.
They were not able to ban the book. But they were able to have it moved from the young adult section, to the adult section.
YT people: How dare you teach our children how evil we were, and still are.
I completely agree and understand that books are by far more dangerous than weapons… which makes sense why conservatives want to ban them, but let firearms freely into schools
Just throw out all books. Americans generally never seem to know what's in them anyway 😂
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Love you, LaVar!
This is so funny and I've watched it so many times that I almost know the entire 10 minutes word for word
In Belgium you can get mein kampf and the communist manifest in the bib, +14 tho.
So the ngro is gonna tell me what to read?
Back in the 90s I got in big trouble for read a controversial book called Jurassic Park, you know, for teaching the evils of evolution. I found the book again and read it anyway lol
I work in a public library and at this point, due to some legislation being introduced in my state, the effort is to remove these books from all libraries here, not only schools'. And I can never understand it. The first thing we learn is that if someone comes in looking for a book which ideology conflicts with our own, we are to provide access to that book. Without judgement, without argument, without suggesting a different book that conforms with our own beliefs and morals. I have seen some incredibly damaging books that promote racism, homophobia, sexism, ableism, and have checked them out to the patron with a smile. Do people not understand that you can find any ideology in a library and that that's the point? No one is being silenced or censored just because someone else's opinion is heard.
everyday it becomes more obvious that the soviets need to take power
So if you have a child that read beyond grade levels they can not.
How about go join the Mormon or go find somewhere else to live
Schools buying your book is NOT a book ban! A true ban is where activist have your book thown off of well known platforms commonly used to sell or even have publishers not produce your book!
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury.
They want to raise socially dumb children. Yikes.
The Dewey decimal system is only for nonfiction books. If Dr Seuss wrote any nonfiction books I am not familiar.
George Washington was sterile, which was something he considered when declining to be King.
“….Sooo after all the book-banning, are we gonna go too all the old slavery plantations and commence the burning of these buildings/houses/land & all the historical materials that within them”???????
“….Then you all need too start putting in place REPARATIONS FOR ALL PPL OF COLOR”!!! G-MOMMIE
Let them just shipped the books to Africa instead of burning them!