Showing posts with label Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis banning books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis banning books. Show all posts

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Florida's Book Banning Is Frightening

 

I've played the 1984 hand re. Florida's fascist Gov. Ron DeSantis so many times now, I wonder if George Orwell would agree that DeSantis as Big Brother is in the same realm as the one in his novel? All that's missing in Florida are Orwell's characters like Winston Smith, O'Brien and Julia, to mention a few. If you've read 1984, you know the secrecy that Winston and Julia had to maintain just to survive. DeSantis' constituents are also under the gun of a tyrant determined to devastate their state.

Florida librarian Keri Clark loves working with children and books, but that changed last month...

"The library is now closed off, the shelves are empty, and her job now mostly consists of “vetting” piles of books to comply with new censorship laws implemented by the state of Florida.
“The books are sitting out on tables, they’re being boxed up and discarded,” Ms Clark tells The Independent. “It’s just it’s a really sad sight. A lot of the kids keep looking through the window and it’s just it’s awful that I can’t let them come in and get books.”

Here are just some of the titles that have been banned by DeSantis and his minions...

Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye,’ ‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini, ‘The Stranger’ by Albert Camus, ‘Revolting Rhymes’ by Roald Dahl, and a skateboarding magazine called ‘Thrasher’.

My opinion is that, not only would George Orwell agree that Ron DeSantis is at least as egregious a Big Brother as the one in 1984, the author would admit he could take some lessons from DeSantis. 

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