{"id":1903827,"date":"2023-03-23T14:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attempted-book-bans-surged-in-2022-as-leaders-target-sexual-content-and-critical-race-theory-report\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:30:21","slug":"attempted-book-bans-surged-in-2022-as-leaders-target-sexual-content-and-critical-race-theory-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attempted-book-bans-surged-in-2022-as-leaders-target-sexual-content-and-critical-race-theory-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted book bans surged in 2022 as leaders target sexual content and critical race theory: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fattempted-book-bans-surged-in-2022-as-leaders-target-sexual-content-and-critical-race-theory-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1903827&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_79590848\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"TikTok creators stage demonstration at U.S. capitol to oppose banning the app\"><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Members of Congress, and, as of recently, the White House, have spoken out about data privacy concerns related to short-form video app TikTok, even threatening an all-out ban of the app last week. In response, TikTok creators gathered outside the Capitol on Wednesday evening to protest against banning the app in the U.S. \"><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M49S\"><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-23 03:26:11\"><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailURL\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/snapshot\/1267714_th_641bc7aa71983_1679542186.jpg\"><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/sd\/1267714.mp4\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ \"div\": \"Brid_79590848\", \"obj\": {\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"16\",\"height\":\"9\",\"video\":\"1267714\"} }); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">A<\/span>ttempts to restrict access to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">certain books<\/a> increased in 2022, particularly those featuring <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lgbt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LGBT<\/a> and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/critical-race-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial themes<\/a>. This comes as lawmakers across the country have made <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/removing-explicit-content-from-school-libraries-is-not-book-banning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">efforts to prevent<\/a> young children from being exposed to graphic sexual content and critical race theory in schools. <\/p>\n<p>The number of items that were subject to restrictions almost doubled from 2021, according to a recent American Library Association state. In 2022, there were 1, 269 calls for resource censorship, up from just 729 calls the year before, according to the report. Many of the calls went against several different names.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/country-singer-arrest-me-introducing-son-drag-queens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARREST ME, Place Song MAREN MORRIS SAYS, FOR INTRODUCING TWO-YEAR-OLD TO DRAG Kings<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at ALA, asserted that those who criticize these guides and sources are misintentional.<\/p>\n<p>She stated that&#8221; their goal is to stifle the voices of those who have historically been left out of our country&#8217;s conversations, such as members of the LGBTQIA + community or people of color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\" ><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1060\" height=\"707\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\" ><source width=\"1060\" height=\"707\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\" ><\/picture><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">FILE- On Thursday, December 16, 2021, in Salt Lake City, Amanda Darrow, chairman of youth, life, and certification services at the Utah Pride Center, poses with publications that parents have recently complained about. Two books were ordered to be restricted in their distribution to minors, including bookstores and libraries, and were declared obscene for children by a prosecutor in Virginia on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. The courses in dilemma were Sarah J. Maas'&#8221; A Court of Mist and Fury&#8221; and Maia Kobabe&#8217;s&#8221; Gender Queer: A Memoir.&#8221; ( AP Photo \/ Rick Bowmer )<\/figcaption><div class=\"Figure-credit\" itemprop=\"author\">AP Rick Bowmer<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Caldwell-Stone,&#8221; increasingly, we&#8217;re seeing these challenges come from coordinated censorship groups that target national library board meetings to impose removal of a long list of books they share on public media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2, 571 different books and resources were reportedly challenged in 2021, which is 38 % more than the 1, 858 specific titles, according to ALA.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company,&#8221; the vast majority were written by or about people of color and members of the LGBTQIA + place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As courses with physical, cultural, and LGBT elements are increasingly being found in schools and libraries across the nation, where young children have access to and are exposed to them, many books have recently come under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>The most outlawed and contested guide of 2021 was <i>Gender Queer<\/i> in particular. Examples of explicit sexual activity can be found in the visual book and narrative. In every school in the US, it can be found.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Ok.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lately, Gov. According to Ron DeSantis'( R &#8211; FL ) office, the book has been discovered in several schools in Florida counties along with two other books, <i>It&#8217;s Perfectly Normal<\/i> and Let&#8217; Talk About It.<\/p>\n<p><i>It&#8217;s Perfectly Normal<\/i> is a children&#8217;s book <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/robieharris.com\/?page_id=186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about<\/a> &#8220;changing Bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health,&#8221; which is intended for ages 10 and up. Meanwhile, <i>Let&#8217;s Talk About It\u00a0<\/i>is a graphic novel <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/605726\/lets-talk-about-it-by-erika-moen-and-matthew-nolan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">branded<\/a> as &#8220;the teen&#8217;s guide to sex, relationships, and being a human.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attempts to restrict access to certain books increased in 2022, particularly those featuring LGBT and racial themes. This comes as lawmakers across the country have made efforts to prevent young children from being exposed to graphic sexual content and critical race theory in schools. According to a new report from the American Library Association, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1903828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3990,11077,4929,5297,5589,5092,5061,5069,3819,4859,22599,4650,5095],"class_list":["post-1903827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-3990","tag-attempted","tag-bans","tag-book","tag-content","tag-critical","tag-leaders","tag-race","tag-report","tag-sexual","tag-surged","tag-target","tag-theory"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1903828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}