Bumped because the troglodytes who still advocate for book banning deserve continual public humiliation and scorn.
And because local librarians are being fired for refusing to remove banned books, such as:
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/03/04/exclusive-llano-county-tx-librarian-suzette-bakerfired-after-refusing-censor-books-files-lawsuit/72774129007/
One guy, the head of the snake on this so debatable if he's human, appears to be this aggie choad -- Rep. Jared Patterson -- mentioned in the thread above because he has already stated he'd ban Lonesome Dove. That's because, as his legislation states, "the sexualization of children must stop."
He's never read it (nor likely any book he wants to ban.)
After decrying Lonesome Dove, one of his comrades decided to "help" him out by buying it on Kindle and searching for bad, horrible, nasty, terrible, naughty, mind-corrupting words like "vagina".
Actual literate readers had to point out better words to search for. Full article here: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/jared-patterson-lonesome-dove-book-bans/
Texas is either 1st or 2nd only to Florida, depending on the source, in banned books. That's some excellent company to keep, but Rep. Jared Patterson above, aka the choad from Texas A&M University, says we must be #1.
He is from Frisco and is a rep for 106th district (Frisco etc).
So while the 5th Circuit Court said his legislation could not be enforced, it's still out there. And Texas schools still banned 625 books in 2022-2023, with Frisco ISD "leading" the way to ignorance by accounting for more than half of the book bans.
Here's Frisco ISDs list:
https://www.friscoisd.org/departments/library-media-services/library-collection-review-project/materials-removed
And a recent article from SXSW on the punishment aspect and fear-inducing and stultifying effects on schools, parents, librarians etc.
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/education/2024/03/13/hb-900-sxsw-2024-vendors-librarians-bookpeople-talk-challenges-texas-book-ban-laws-censorship/72930635007/
TLDR; the Texas A&M Aggie choad known as Rep. Jared Patterson is a hateful POS.