@juddlegum
These book bans look like a more "civil" book burning approach. All aimed at erasure.
We are well into the dystopian here, where we have some progressive states protecting and expanding reading and curriculum/books for LGBTQ+ folx, as well as enshrining ethnic studies, and others are erasing entire chapter of US history that are unflattering to white folks, erasing anything LGBTQ+.
I remember talking to a Florida educator a few months ago who said they could not even say the words "social justice"