The "Invisible Library" dataset is free to download. It contains detailed information on book bans by school district across the United States up to June 2022.

A snippet " The Topic Concentration chart above lends the clearest picture into the implied rationale behind the bans. Namely, the bans are not and have not been about the physical removal of a book from a shelf. The bans instead are meant to:

Virtue signal by people in positions of institutional power to voting-age parents interested in school choice, parental rights, and wedge social issues to the detriment of non-voting age students

Reject and exclude topics that challenge a perceived status quo from the public discourse (e.g. non-heteronormativity, non-cis identity, non-traditional gender roles, and non-Judeo-Christian books are targeted) "
  • @Walop
    English
    11•11 months ago

    Well, the Puritans didn’t escape persecution to Americas, but felt they didn’t have enough freedom to persecute others according to their views and went to find that.

    • @LexiconDexicon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      -4•11 months ago

      Not true at all, the Catholics killed many Protestants and absolutely did persecute them unfairly, the catholic church was, and still is, a profit making organization, nothing more.

      Don’t be a history revisionist

        • @LexiconDrexicon@lemm.eeEnglish
          -1•11 months ago

          That depends on the year you’re referring too, and the Church of England was never fully protestant anyways, they’re “Anglican” which is a weird mix of the two

          “Henry’s religious beliefs remained aligned to traditional Catholicism throughout his reign. In order to secure royal supremacy over the Church, however, Henry allied himself with Protestants, who until that time had been treated as heretics. The main doctrine of the Protestant Reformation was justification by faith alone rather than by good works.”