JONATHAN JANSEN | You want to ban books? Well, the Bible had better be top of your list
Targeting books about sex, racism and gays is the height of hypocrisy if you cling to the holy scriptures
There’s a whole lot of book banning going on across the US at the moment and it should scare anyone concerned about the education of children. Maus, a Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel that tells a powerful story of the Holocaust, depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, has been banned by a Tennessee school district because of curse words and a female mouse’s nudity. To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the best books of the 20th century, was dropped from a required reading list in a school in Seattle because of racism concerns. Also on the target list of mainly parent activism is Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and the brilliant account of slavery in Hannah Jones’s The 1619 Project. Any book that talks of sex, sexuality, racism and gays — the usual suspects — draws the ire of the Right...
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