Here’s The Man Who May Get 3600 LGBTQ And Anti Racist Books Banned In Florida
- Gregg Shapiro
- December 19, 2022
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A conservative activist named Bruce Friedman is trying to get over 3,600 book titles banned from Florida schools, including books that contain so-called “porn, critical race theory, social-emotional learning, [and] fluid gender.”
Friedman – who is president and founder of the Florida chapter of the right-wing education group No Left Turn in Education – presented this list during a November 28 meeting of the Florida Department of Education Library Media Working Group, a group that will train public school librarians on how to follow censorship rules signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) earlier this year.
Friedman said this list proves that “libraries have more than a little poison in them,” according to Popular Information.
He demanded that the Department of Education “clean up this mess” or he would “perform 3,600 challenges to the books and overwhelm your awful, awful procedures and policies.”
He has already successfully gotten the book The Girl From The Sea and at least 101 other titles removed from Clay County library shelves due to a policy that automatically removes books after someone formally submits a challenge to them.
The Girl From The Sea is an award-winning graphic novel. Despite the fact that the book contains neither nudity, sex, nor swearing, Friedman says the book shouldn’t be available because the book promotes “promiscuity” and “pre-marital sex,” and students are “not in school to learn how to be better lesbians.”
- Tags: Ron Desantis
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