Apparently some American schools are attempting to ban manga

[Gryphon]

I heard this and apparently its cause of violence and sexualization, specifically using Assassination Classroom as an example.

However, I want to tell a story about a certain book series I read in middle school

I walk into my middle school library wanting to read a new series after finishing reading Cirque Du Freak. You know, the story where children get their necks snapped and an elementary/middle schooler sucks blood after playing dead and going through intense emotional distress when he hears his parents crying next to his corpse but he can't do anything about it.

So I find this book called "Monster," and it was a series of books which I read but can't remember all their names.

What is the premise of the story you may ask? Well, I can explain it to you.

Essentially a massive EMP destroys all the worlds electronics and somehow reverts 12-18 year old to their base instincts. It also gives some people superpowers, like the MC gets amazing smell and they can essentially smell everyone's emotions. Don't ask me how, I remember reading the third book, but I never finished it.

Now, when I say 12-18 year olds revert to base instincts, how that is depicted in the book is basically just zombies. Horny zombies at that. One page you'll read two children eating another child's nose off, and another page will literally just be an orgy. I'm not joking. If I remember correctly, it was in book two and the MC is led to an orgy that these base instinct 12-18 years olds are having. Again, may I repeat, 12-18 year olds. I specifically remember the term, sandwiching, being used in one sentence.

This crap was in middle school. I specifically remember the descriptive scene of two people, remember 12-18 year olds, going at it, then the author breaks the fourth wall being, "Woah, that's a bit too much." No shit mister author. I think you went too far a long time ago.

Granted, I don't know who's to blame for getting that book in a middle school. It's pretty obvious that the author wanted to write a mature story, but his publishers told him to make it YA, but instead of holding stuff back to make things a bit more palatable for the audience, all he did was scale back the ages. But then again, I have no idea who decided it was a good idea to put it in a middle school. I would get a high school library, but this was in my middle school for christ sake.

Then there's an article saying Assassination Classroom is too explicit? Like, the crap I read in that series beats nearly every manga I read in terms of sexualization. Even some light novels aren't as sexual as those series of books, and that's saying something. That's why I don't take people seriously when they say Japanese media is oversexual, cause they've never read a western YA book in their life if they unironically say that.

Like, I'm all about sexual themes in media, but there's a limit to what can be depicted in certain cases. Like, I probably wouldn't have cared that much if I found it in my highschool library, but again this was in middle school. Then some people want to get rid of manga because of sexual themes. At that point, I need to ask them to actually read a book, cause they surely haven't.

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

I heard this and apparently its cause of violence and sexualization, specifically using Assassination Classroom as an example.

However, I want to tell a story about a certain book series I read in middle school

I walk into my middle school library wanting to read a new series after finishing reading Cirque Du Freak. You know, the story where children get their necks snapped and an elementary/middle schooler sucks blood after playing dead and going through intense emotional distress when he hears his parents crying next to his corpse but he can't do anything about it.

So I find this book called "Monster," and it was a series of books which I read but can't remember all their names.

What is the premise of the story you may ask? Well, I can explain it to you.

Essentially a massive EMP destroys all the worlds electronics and somehow reverts 12-18 year old to their base instincts. It also gives some people superpowers, like the MC gets amazing smell and they can essentially smell everyone's emotions. Don't ask me how, I remember reading the third book, but I never finished it.

Now, when I say 12-18 year olds revert to base instincts, how that is depicted in the book is basically just zombies. Horny zombies at that. One page you'll read two children eating another child's nose off, and another page will literally just be an orgy. I'm not joking. If I remember correctly, it was in book two and the MC is led to an orgy that these base instinct 12-18 years olds are having. Again, may I repeat, 12-18 year olds. I specifically remember the term, sandwiching, being used in one sentence.

This crap was in middle school. I specifically remember the descriptive scene of two people, remember 12-18 year olds, going at it, then the author breaks the fourth wall being, "Woah, that's a bit too much." No shit mister author. I think you went too far a long time ago.

Granted, I don't know who's to blame for getting that book in a middle school. It's pretty obvious that the author wanted to write a mature story, but his publishers told him to make it YA, but instead of holding stuff back to make things a bit more palatable for the audience, all he did was scale back the ages. But then again, I have no idea who decided it was a good idea to put it in a middle school. I would get a high school library, but this was in my middle school for christ sake.

Then there's an article saying Assassination Classroom is too explicit? Like, the crap I read in that series beats nearly every manga I read in terms of sexualization. Even some light novels aren't as sexual as those series of books, and that's saying something. That's why I don't take people seriously when they say Japanese media is oversexual, cause they've never read a western YA book in their life if they unironically say that.

Like, I'm all about sexual themes in media, but there's a limit to what can be detected in certain cases. Like, I probably wouldn't have cared that much if I found it in my highschool library, but again this was in middle school. Then some people want to get rid of manga because of sexual themes. At that point, I need to ask them to actually read a book, cause they surely haven't.

Good ending.

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

Could you please add to the list of books that need to be banned?
Pleasethankyouverymuch.

 

[Corty]

What I read about is that school libraries may ban them (and in a specified state where some over-eager parent complained).

They make it so that as to what is in a library is up to the librarian. Narrowing it down to the taste of one or a few person. (That is what I read).

As an outsider, I couldn’t care less. Read what you want in your free time and study while in school.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

I heard this and apparently its cause of violence and sexualization, specifically using Assassination Classroom as an example.

However, I want to tell a story about a certain book series I read in middle school

I walk into my middle school library wanting to read a new series after finishing reading Cirque Du Freak. You know, the story where children get their necks snapped and an elementary/middle schooler sucks blood after playing dead and going through intense emotional distress when he hears his parents crying next to his corpse but he can't do anything about it.

So I find this book called "Monster," and it was a series of books which I read but can't remember all their names.

What is the premise of the story you may ask? Well, I can explain it to you.

Essentially a massive EMP destroys all the worlds electronics and somehow reverts 12-18 year old to their base instincts. It also gives some people superpowers, like the MC gets amazing smell and they can essentially smell everyone's emotions. Don't ask me how, I remember reading the third book, but I never finished it.

Now, when I say 12-18 year olds revert to base instincts, how that is depicted in the book is basically just zombies. Horny zombies at that. One page you'll read two children eating another child's nose off, and another page will literally just be an orgy. I'm not joking. If I remember correctly, it was in book two and the MC is led to an orgy that these base instinct 12-18 years olds are having. Again, may I repeat, 12-18 year olds. I specifically remember the term, sandwiching, being used in one sentence.

This crap was in middle school. I specifically remember the descriptive scene of two people, remember 12-18 year olds, going at it, then the author breaks the fourth wall being, "Woah, that's a bit too much." No shit mister author. I think you went too far a long time ago.

Granted, I don't know who's to blame for getting that book in a middle school. It's pretty obvious that the author wanted to write a mature story, but his publishers told him to make it YA, but instead of holding stuff back to make things a bit more palatable for the audience, all he did was scale back the ages. But then again, I have no idea who decided it was a good idea to put it in a middle school. I would get a high school library, but this was in my middle school for christ sake.

Then there's an article saying Assassination Classroom is too explicit? Like, the crap I read in that series beats nearly every manga I read in terms of sexualization. Even some light novels aren't as sexual as those series of books, and that's saying something. That's why I don't take people seriously when they say Japanese media is oversexual, cause they've never read a western YA book in their life if they unironically say that.

Like, I'm all about sexual themes in media, but there's a limit to what can be depicted in certain cases. Like, I probably wouldn't have cared that much if I found it in my highschool library, but again this was in middle school. Then some people want to get rid of manga because of sexual themes. At that point, I need to ask them to actually read a book, cause they surely haven't.

It all boils down to one thing: American comics industry is being overwhelmed by East Asian graphic novels for excessive virtue signalling.

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

Could you please add to the list of books that need to be banned?
Pleasethankyouverymuch.

Gender queer, all fan fic books, all Wattpad books, the book where the school boy got railed by a pedo, things that undermine the faith, things that undermine objective reality, the -cratic party platform, the -tarian party platform... ETC

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

They used the same excuse "violence and sexualization", when they tried to ban "Larry the Farting Leprechaun" from the Llano county library. There might be a little more of these in some manga than in Larry, but thats why there are age ratings on the backs of most manga. Really I think it is mostly about insecure adults projecting their childhood traumas onto an unrealistically perfect vision of schools that will never exist in reality.

 

[ManwX]

honestly, I'm kinda surprised at how America is dealing with mass shootings. It always baffles me. Banning manga has got little to do with the problem tbh.

 

[Jamminrabbit]

But but but i'm always being told the blue-haired, they/them people were going to censor and ban all my sexually explicit fiction!

Nope.

Spoiler

Just your religious old dudes and bored suburban housewives as always.

 

[Zakuro]

honestly, I'm kinda surprised at how America is dealing with mass shootings. It always baffles me. Banning manga has got little to do with the problem tbh.

Same logic with banning video games because it make children violent.

 

[Gibbs505]

I heard this and apparently its cause of violence and sexualization, specifically using Assassination Classroom as an example.

However, I want to tell a story about a certain book series I read in middle school

I walk into my middle school library wanting to read a new series after finishing reading Cirque Du Freak. You know, the story where children get their necks snapped and an elementary/middle schooler sucks blood after playing dead and going through intense emotional distress when he hears his parents crying next to his corpse but he can't do anything about it.

So I find this book called "Monster," and it was a series of books which I read but can't remember all their names.

What is the premise of the story you may ask? Well, I can explain it to you.

Essentially a massive EMP destroys all the worlds electronics and somehow reverts 12-18 year old to their base instincts. It also gives some people superpowers, like the MC gets amazing smell and they can essentially smell everyone's emotions. Don't ask me how, I remember reading the third book, but I never finished it.

Now, when I say 12-18 year olds revert to base instincts, how that is depicted in the book is basically just zombies. Horny zombies at that. One page you'll read two children eating another child's nose off, and another page will literally just be an orgy. I'm not joking. If I remember correctly, it was in book two and the MC is led to an orgy that these base instinct 12-18 years olds are having. Again, may I repeat, 12-18 year olds. I specifically remember the term, sandwiching, being used in one sentence.

This crap was in middle school. I specifically remember the descriptive scene of two people, remember 12-18 year olds, going at it, then the author breaks the fourth wall being, "Woah, that's a bit too much." No shit mister author. I think you went too far a long time ago.

Granted, I don't know who's to blame for getting that book in a middle school. It's pretty obvious that the author wanted to write a mature story, but his publishers told him to make it YA, but instead of holding stuff back to make things a bit more palatable for the audience, all he did was scale back the ages. But then again, I have no idea who decided it was a good idea to put it in a middle school. I would get a high school library, but this was in my middle school for christ sake.

Then there's an article saying Assassination Classroom is too explicit? Like, the crap I read in that series beats nearly every manga I read in terms of sexualization. Even some light novels aren't as sexual as those series of books, and that's saying something. That's why I don't take people seriously when they say Japanese media is oversexual, cause they've never read a western YA book in their life if they unironically say that.

Like, I'm all about sexual themes in media, but there's a limit to what can be depicted in certain cases. Like, I probably wouldn't have cared that much if I found it in my highschool library, but again this was in middle school. Then some people want to get rid of manga because of sexual themes. At that point, I need to ask them to actually read a book, cause they surely haven't.

Lets be honest now, who did a search for these book, apart from me!!

 

[TheEldritchGod]

So we can ban Manga but not trany strippers.
We live in a magical world

 

[Notadate]

Can’t give a shit. We are fucked anyways
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Ain’t gonna stop jack shit. Bypasses, third parties, piracy, we got that shit on the tip of our fingers.

And you know what, little fucken fetus’s at this point are given iPads. The shit marketed towards kids is mind melting shit, they killed my boy, Mob high school — filled with dirty sin of lust — and no better for T.V shows.

Fucked to end and back. Religion now is a fucking joke! People slapping it on their statuses for clout.
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The list rolls so far down. Now instead of sweet dreams, just because of a few miss clicks, I see shit.

If that affects a grown ass man, what about a kid that barely knows right from wrong, what is true or not, the normal from abnormal. Main reason abused kids don’t understand they’re being abused
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What I am trying to say. The whole school system has to be torn down and rebuilt. Shit, make taking care of a child a class — teens pregnancy. So many people are thrown to the road after school, only knowing the — not even — basics to survive.

Capitalism isn’t wron, just, just if one needs to sell his/hers organs, be rich, or be in debt for years to even pay for college alr shows the surface crack. Don’t get me started with drug companies, assholes!

 

[TotallyHuman]

The real cause of "violence and sexualization" is that people have to sell their kidneys to live a more or less acceptable way, and have no social guarantees. They literally slave away for their entire life just to barely stay afloat.
And that's how an Arizona senator voted against a minimal wage increase

(I use an American polititian here since we're talking about American schools here, but in my country and every other country I know except for a few I do not know enough is like that too)
Sorry for the outburst.

 

[Notadate]

The real cause of "violence and sexualization" is that people have to sell their kidneys to live a more or less acceptable way, and have no social guarantees. They literally slave away for their entire life just to barely stay afloat.
And that's how an Arizona senator voted against a minimal wage increase

(I use an American polititian here since we're talking about American schools here, but in my country and every other country I know except for a few I do not know enough is like that too)
Sorry for the outburst.

I practically said that, just with more anger

 

[Parade]

I also remember reading a story in middle school that I found weird that was in the school library it was a manga and I forgot the name but it was the story about the boy who was lazy about painting a fence and convincing other kids to do it for him and giving him stuff. Near the end of the story they trap the two thief’s in a stone cave for 3 days and nights and goes into a brutal backstory on how they died one by drowning trying to get out and the other starving and eating candle wax. It was a bit brutal, it was animated as well so pictures of it was shown. I also have another one about nightmares and people supernatural powers slowly eating them or destroying them.

 

[NotOriginal]

Saying some American schools are banning manga is a bit exaggerated, Florida is banning Assassination Classroom from what is known, since they say they don't want to give kids the idea to kill their teacher which is a fucking stupid reason but hey it's Florida, the state whose Governor is picking a fight with Disney and essentially did human trafficking's by sending several migrants to Martha's Vineyard unauthorized.

 

[Tabula_Rasa]

Some are not banned but are challenged, i.e. suggested for banning.
Source: https://cbldf.org/

Banned & Challenged Comics (Not the most recent list)​

Amazing Spider-Man: Revelations by J. Michael Straczynski, John Romita, Jr., and Scott Hanna​

• Location of key challenge: A middle-school library in Millard, Nebraska
• Reason challenged: Sexual overtones
The parent of a 6-year-old who checked out the book filed a complaint and took the story to the media; the parent also withheld the book for the duration of the review process rather than returning it per library policy. More…

Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa​

• Location of key challenge: Japan
• Reason challenged: Violence, discrimination
Keiji Nakazawa’s internationally renowned manga Barefoot Gen, which depicts wartime atrocities from the perspective of the seven-year-old protagonist, has fallen victim to several challenges in its home country of Japan. More…

Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley​

• Location of key challenge: Stark County District Library in Canton, Ohio
• Reason challenged: Sexism, offensive language, and unsuited to age group
Despite the challenge, the library retained the book and now holds two copies, which are shelved in the Teen section. More…

Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland​

• Location of key challenge: Columbus, Nebraska, Public Library
• Reason challenged: Advocates rape and violence
In May 2013, a patron of the public library in Columbus, Nebraska requested that the book be removed from the collection, claiming that it “advocates rape and violence.” More…

Blankets by Craig Thompson ​

• Location of key challenge: The public library in Marshall, Missouri
• Reason challenged: Obscene images
CBLDF wrote a letter to the Marshall library on behalf of Blankets and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, playing a key role in keeping both books on shelves. More…

Bone by Jeff Smith ​

• Location of key challenge: Independent School District 196 in Rosemount, Minnesota
• Reason challenged: Promotion of smoking and drinking
A letter from Jeff Smith decrying the attempted ban of his book was read aloud at the library review committee’s hearing, and the challenge was ultimately rejected by a 10-1 vote, to the praise of Smith and the CBLDF. More…

The Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner​

• Location of key challenge: Undisclosed
• Reason challenged: Sexual content
Artist and comics creator Phoebe Gloeckner has never been afraid to show the raw and gritty bits of reality in her work. For that reason, Gloekner’s work is a frequent target of censors. In 2015, CBLDF was involved in a confidential challenge against the graphic novel over its sexual content, and our efforts kept the book on shelves. More…

Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama​

• Location of key challenge: All public school libraries in Wicomico County, Maryland
• Reason challenged: Violence and nudity
The library review committee recommended that the books in the Dragon Ball series, which were recommended by the publisher for ages 13+, be removed from the entire public school library system, including at the high school level. More…

Drama by Raina Telgemeier​

• Location of key challenge: Chapel Hill Elementary School in Mount Pleasant, Texas
• Reason challenged: Sexual content
Although most readers of all ages found Drama to be just as endearing and authentic as Telgemeier’s other books Smile and Sisters, a small but vocal minority have objected to the inclusion of two gay characters. More…

The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa​

• Location of key challenge: Various
• Reason challenged: Nudity, sexual content, and unsuited to age group
When the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom released their list of the Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011, the second-most challenged book on that list was The Color of Earth, the first book of a critically-acclaimed Korean manwha, or comic book, series. More…

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel ​

• Location of key challenge: Various
• Reason challenged: Obscene images
CBLDF wrote a letter to the Marshall library on behalf of Fun Home and Craig Thompson’s Blankets, playing a key role in keeping both books on shelves. In 2014, the book faced a greater challenge in South Carolina, where the state legislature debated punitive budget cuts against the College of Charleston because it incorporated Fun Home into a voluntary summer reading program for incoming freshman. More…

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell​

• Location of key challenge: Undisclosed
• Reason challenged: Violent imagery
In February 2015, CBLDF was confidentially involved the defense of the graphic novel edition of The Graveyard Book, which was challenged in an undisclosed middle school library for violent imagery. More…

Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes​

• Location of key challenge: A high school in Guilford, Connecticut
• Reason challenged: Profanity, course language, and brief non-sexual nudity
A high school teacher was forced to resign from his job after a parent filed both a complaint with the school and a police complaint against the teacher for lending a high school freshman a copy of Eightball #22, which was later published as the graphic novel Ice Haven. More…

In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak​

• Location of key challenge: Various
• Reason challenged: Nudity
In the Night Kitchen was not often removed from shelves; instead, librarians censored it by painting underwear or diapers over the genitals of the main character, a precocious child named Mickey. More…

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill​

• Location of key challenge: Jessamine County Public Library in Kentucky
• Reason challenged: Sex scenes
Two employees of the Jessamine County Public Library in Kentucky were fired after they took it upon themselves to withhold the library’s copy of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier from circulation because they felt it was pornographic. More…

Maus by Art Spiegelman​

• Location of key challenge: Pasadena Public Library in Pasadena, California
• Reason challenged: Anti-ethnic and unsuited for age group
Nick Smith of the Pasadena Public Library describes the challenge as being “made by a Polish-American who is very proud of his heritage, and who had made other suggestions about adding books on Polish history… The thing is, Maus made him uncomfortable, so he didn’t want other people to read it. That is censorship, as opposed to parental guidance.” More…

Neonomicon by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows​

• Location of key challenge: Greenville, South Carolina, public library
• Reason challenged: Sexual content
Despite giving her 14-year-old daughter permission to check out the book, which was appropriately shelved in the adult section of the library, a mother filed a complaint, claiming the book was “pornographic.” CBLDF wrote a letter in support of the book, but it remains out of circulation pending review. More…

Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez​

• Location of key challenge: Rio Rancho, New Mexico
• Reason challenged: Sexual content, child pornography
In early 2015, the critically acclaimed comic collection Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez was called “child porn” by the mother of a high school student in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. More…

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi​

• Location of key challenge: Various
• Reason challenged: Profanity, violent content
Furor erupted in 2013 when Chicago Public Schools sent an email to local principals, directing them to remove all copies of Marjane Satrapi’s award-winning graphic novel Persepolis. CPS backpedaled on the initial email, but the book was removed from Grade 7 classrooms and use in Grade 8 -10 classrooms now requires additional teacher training. Possibly as a result of publicity from the 2013 CPS ban, Persepolis faced three more school challenges in 2014, landing it the #2 spot on the American Library Association’s Top Ten List of Frequently Challenged Books for that year. More…

Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon​

• Location of key challenge: Various
• Reason challenged: Sexual content
Despite receiving high praise from the ALA and Booklist and featuring a cast consisting of animals, the book has been challenged at libraries for sexual content. More…

Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples​

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• Location of Challenge: Apple iOS (2013), Oregon (2014)
• Reason challenged: Sexual content, anti-family, nudity, offensive language, and unsuited for age group.
Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples sci-fi epic adventure, Saga, has not only become one of the bestselling and most critically acclaimed comic series since its debut in March 2012, but it has also become one of the most controversial comics. More…

Sandman by Neil Gaiman and various artists​

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• Location of key challenge: Various
• Reason challenged: Anti-family themes, offensive language, and unsuited for age group
When asked about how he felt when Sandman was labelled unsuitable for teens, Gaiman responded, “I suspect that having a reputation as adult material that’s unsuitable for teens will probably do more to get teens to read Sandman than having the books ready and waiting on the YA shelves would ever do.” More…

SideScrollers by Matthew Loux​

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• Location of key challenge: Enfield, Connecticut, public school district
• Reason challenged: Profanity and sexual references
The school district removed the book from non-compulsory summer reading lists, possibly violating its own review policy, which states in part that “no parent nor group of parents has the right to negate the use of educational resources for students other than his/her own child.” CBLDF wrote a letter in support of the book and is still awaiting a response from the school board. More…

Stuck in the Middle, edited by Ariel Schrag​

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• Location of key challenge: Dixfield, Maine, public school system
• Reason challenged: Language, sexual content, and drug references
CBLDF wrote a letter in support of the book, and the school board voted to leave the book on library shelves with the caveat the students must have parental permission to check out the book. “While we’re pleased to see the book retained in the library’s collection, we’re very disappointed that it is retained with restrictions,” said Executive Director Charles Brownstein. More…

Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse​

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• Location of key challenge: Montgomery County Memorial Library System, Texas
• Reason challenged: Depiction of homosexuality
The book was challenged alongside 15 other young adult books with gay positive themes. The book was ultimately retained in the Montgomery County system, but was reclassified from Young Adult to Adult. More…

Tank Girl by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett​

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• Location of key challenge: Hammond Public Library in Hammond, Indiana
• Reason challenged: Nudity and violence
The Tank Girl books are meant to entertain an adult audience, frequently depicting violence, flatulence, vomiting, sex, and drug use. After the 2009 challenge, the Hammond Public Library chose to retain the book, and it remains on shelves today. More…

This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki​

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• Location of key challenge: Various
• Reason challenged: Sexual content, unsuited to age group
Graphic novel This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki broke boundaries by becoming the first graphic novel to make the short list for the Caldecott Medal. Unfortunately, the Caldecott honor yielded an unforeseen negative outcome: Since the announcement of the Caldecott honor, CBLDF has been confidentially involved in monitoring challenges to This One Summer in various communities. More…

Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons​

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• Location of key challenge: Various
• Reason challenged: Unsuited to age group
Watchmen received a Hugo Award in 1988 and was instrumental in garnering more respect and shelf space for comics and graphic novels in libraries and mainstream bookstores. The inclusion of Watchmen in school library collections has been challenged by parents at least twice, according to the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. More…

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra​

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• Location of key challenge: Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa, California
• Reason challenged: Sexual content
In June 2015, Y: The Last Man was one of four graphic novels that a 20-year-old college student and her parents said should be “eradicated from the system” at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa, California. After completing an English course on graphic novels, Tara Shultz publicly raised objections to Persepolis, Fun Home, Y: The Last Man Vol. 1, and The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll’s House as “pornography” and “garbage.” More…

 

[BearlyAlive]

Yes, let's ban books and not guns, since as you know the average american school kid has more guns than books in their bags thus by rule of scarcity making the books the more dangerous object.

I mean in a country where you can ace science classes by saying "cuz of god, duh" in more than a handfull states books are a bigger problem than guns being more available than lunch boxes.

Well dumd, murrica. Well dumd.

 

[TotallyHuman]

I practically said that, just with more anger

Communism has been saying it since the late 19th century