Freiburg, Germany, Central Station Bookshop (right @the center of the shop‘s entryway):
“This is a selection of books which are banned at schools in the US“.
#UniteAgainstBookBans
#FreedomToRead
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“This is a selection of books which are banned at schools in the US“.
#UniteAgainstBookBans
#FreedomToRead
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https://pen.org/report/beyond-the-shelves/
https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/
Differing opinions matter.
Discourse matters.
Science matters.
We learn by reading, talking, observing, thinking, testing and repetition.
So it matters that we have time and willingness to look at stuff that's new to us.
And each generation needs to relearn.
Tell your story
#EduSky
https://act.pen.org/a/we-believe-fight-back-against-book-bans-tell-state-lawmakers
https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder
https://pen.org/book-bans/pen-america-index-of-school-book-bans-2023-2024/
https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000133076321/verbot-von-holocaust-comic-maus-an-us-schulen-loest-kontroverse
Please note, none of these books has been banned at ALL schools in the US, nor most of them. I have linked to the searchable PEN America Index of Banned Books, in the follow-up skeets to my original post, if you want to check for 1984.
And any school that had issues with boy's hair length
Like the Nazi's, it gave them 4 more years of planning.
Too bad they didn't factor in the MOTIVATION, DETERMINATION and INDIGNATION of 300 million (or so) people.
We have power!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus
Noice ☝️🤓
Hmm...
The book is disturbing !
https://pen.org/book-bans/pen-america-index-of-school-book-bans-2023-2024/
What could possibly go wrong?
Can be checked here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
Ich frag ja nur.
Gerade Atwoods "Handmaid's Tale" / Report der Magd erklärt auch sehr gut das "Woman for Trump"-Phänomen. Allerdings werden manche dieser Frauen mehr als ihren kleinen Finger verlieren. Mehr als ihr Wahlrecht oder ein Auge.
Und wir auch, sollten wir nicht langsam unsere Demokratie anfangen zu verteidigen!
Handmaid's Tale ✅
https://pen.org/book-bans/
Loss of women's rights.
Denial of science.
Silence and remove any critics.
Authoritarian leadership.
What a wonderful way to showcase the superiority of free thought and simultaneously mock backward-thinking Neanderthals (maggots) with a classic kindergarten lemonade stand book display.
Though they will need a much bigger table for Florida’s 4,561 banned books.
#resist
After all, in Nazi Germany books were banned & BURNED on the national level. Without post-war denazification of the media, school education & academia /
The Freedom to Read Act, enacted in New Jersey on December 9, 2024, protects access to age-appropriate books and prevents arbitrary bans in schools and libraries.
Imagine if such laws existed in the majority of states.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/09/25/california-bans-book-bans-and-textbook-censorship-in-schools/
if them! Hah!
I think it's a great read too. Disturbing, but great !
Aber mal Spaß beiseite: Besonders Maus hat mich damals sehr beeindruckt und ist mit verantwortlich, dass ich mich bis heute für die NS-Vergangenheit interessiere.
I knew they banned some of these but banning 1984 is like the most ironic thing I think I've ever heard.
(Not excusing US fascism but condemning both tbc)
Didn't pay the bill
Power cut off
Banned books are the best books. 😎
Ich verstehe es nicht 🤦♀️
What districts have banned these?
https://pen.org/book-bans/2023-banned-book-list/
I didn't venture as far as " Mein Kampt ". I wouldn't think its my cup of tea !
Though I'm sure 🍊 face, read it twice over 🙄
https://www.24books.de/aktuelles/kinderbuch-von-hollywoodstar-trump-uebt-zensur-an-us-schulen-zr-93578369.html
Meinungsfreiheit!!!🤦♀️😡
https://pen.org/book-bans/
Bildung ist hinderlich.
Throne of Glass und das Reich der Sieben Höfe irritieren mich. Hatte sie bisher als belanglose Belletristik wahrgenommen 🤔
Lese gerade Orwells Rosen von Rebecca Solnit - sehr empfehlenswert! Insbesondere als Komplementärlektüre zu 1984. https://www.rowohlt.de/buch/rebecca-solnit-orwells-rosen-9783498003135
The first thing any teacher should do is tell their students to read the banned books. Might provoke the sin of empathy, but a life without sin sounds dull.
Either way, everyone should read Maus (even if they have to buy a copy with 'Censored' stickers over cartoon rodent genitalia)
If you look up all of the books that are banned, they are all related to tyranny, facism, racism, communism, etc.
So, as an old cynic, I ask myself how it is that the current regime bans its own founding manifesto of all things? Paradoxical, isn't it?
To wish to be ‘other than American’ is a new one for me. Honestly, I’d rather just have my country back.
REMOVED FROM LIBRARIES.
I.E. BANNED