4/17/24: Book bans explode, Trump sleeping in court again
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody. One of the areas where there is the most obvious to freedom of speech and |
| 0:15.0 | actions in the real world is when it comes to freedom of speech and |
| 0:20.9 | non-intervention from the modern right wing and Republican Party, which has |
| 0:26.5 | advocated very loudly for a long time for more freedom of speech and less intervention of any kind unless absolutely |
| 0:37.5 | necessary except as we increasingly see in so many areas including the areas of education and |
| 0:45.2 | when it comes to book bands and the the sort of highlight the top level |
| 0:49.8 | statistic that we start with today is that in the 2023-2024 school year that's |
| 0:55.5 | the school year we're currently still in the number of book bands has exploded |
| 1:00.9 | to a record 4,000 and climbing this school year so far and we're going to look at all of the |
| 1:08.8 | data and then talk about why this is so disastrous. |
| 1:12.5 | Let's take a look. |
| 1:13.3 | This is from Penn America, which is a, |
| 1:17.7 | that their slogan is the freedom to write. |
| 1:21.1 | And they are advocates for educational freedom, actual freedom of speech, etc. |
| 1:27.0 | Key takeaways. Bands are speeding up more than 4,000 in the first half of this school year and more than all of last school year in total. It is a nationwide campaign. There have been banning activities in 42 states. |
| 1:42.9 | This is happening in blue and red districts, |
| 1:44.8 | but when you see where this is focused, |
| 1:46.8 | you will very quickly see the right wing bent to this. |
| 1:49.8 | Those who want to ban books are attempting to use obscenity law and hyperbolic rhetoric about |
| 1:55.8 | porn in schools to justify banning books often for sexual violence or LGBTQ plus topics. trans identity is very popular and disproportionate |
| 2:06.7 | targeting of books by women and books by non-binary authors is taking place. |
| 2:12.3 | They also are focusing on themes of race and racism by |
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