Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.

  • lemonaz
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    141 day ago

    I’m 1000% sure they banned Shel because of “A Boy Named Sue” which they probably thought was about trans kids.

    • @Krauerking@lemy.lol
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      71 day ago

      Hard KeK and quite possibly the right answer.
      I figured it was Tatooin Ruth who literally is nude except for his tattoos or all the other butts he drew in his comics.

      • @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 hours ago

        Tbf if many here heard his album Fuck 'em they’d want to cancel him too lol. I Love My Right Hand is one of the most tame songs on it, There’s No One I Hate is a wild one.

        Pretty funny album though, if you can get past that sort of thing.