1,269 books were banned from public schools and libraries in the US in 2022 at the initiative of extreme conservative forces. But their goal goes far beyond removing unloved books from public shelves.
Free tampons in schools were referred to as too “woke” in Idaho. Likewise, a school choir in the state of Wisconsin was banned from performing the song to perform “Rainbowland”., because the text could potentially be seen as “controversial”. In Florida one had to resign principalbecause pictures of Michelangelo’s statue of David were shown in a sixth grade art class – the reason: pornographic material.