petersuber on Nostr: "Facing pressure from right-wing ideologues, #Scholastic is facilitating the ...
"Facing pressure from right-wing ideologues, #Scholastic is facilitating the exclusion of #books that feature people of color and/or #LGBTQ characters. Scholastic has grouped many of these titles in a collection called "Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice" [& given] school officials…the option to exclude the entire set…Scholastic has…given schools a "bigot button" to exclude these books and mollify intolerant pressure groups."
https://popular.info/p/scholastics-bigot-button#BookBans #Censorship #Publishers
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