The American Library Association reported last month that 2022 saw a record 1,269 banning attempts, nearly double the number in 2021.
Similarly, the fear and social upheaval driving book-banning efforts today are a response to the pushback from people of color and LGBTQ people for equal treatment under the law and public policy.the American Library Association will release its latest list of the top 10 most-challenged books, reflecting the ideas and groups targeted for silencing. But we’ve already seen the evidence.
The censorship instinct isn’t confined to the political right though. The left engages in its own version by trying to revise books of the past to conform to present-day values. And some on the left aim to shut down non-conforming ideas and professors in college classrooms. Book bans deprive young people of the cultural knowledge and relationship skills they’ll need to survive in a diverse world. Children miss out on learning empathy — a necessary characteristic developed from diverse reading, which grows from an awareness of other ways of being and thinking.
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