Bostonians to send banned books to Florida

By adamg on Wed, 10/11/2023 - 5:04pm

GBH reports on work by local online entrepreneur Paul English and Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners member Joyce Linehan to set up BannedBooksUSA, which lets Floridians pick a book from a list of books their governor objects to and then order it for just the price of shipping.

Yeah, books used to be banned in Boston. Sam the Sham even sang about it:

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Comments

This is the level of taunting

By anon on Wed, 10/11/2023 - 6:24pm.

This is the level of taunting i adore

Im sorry

By anon on Wed, 10/11/2023 - 6:28pm.

Some of these books are not age appropriate for certain kids.

I wouldn’t buy them for my children and I would hope I sons school would try and push it on him.

Education should be age appropriate.

Fortunately, this is America

By adamg on Wed, 10/11/2023 - 9:48pm.

Nobody's forcing you to buy any of those books.

Cool story

By brianjdamico on Wed, 10/11/2023 - 9:58pm.

but how do you feel about your kid reading Anne Frank's Diary or Baldwin's The Fire Next Time?

Not age appropriate for certain kids?

By Tim Mc. on Thu, 10/12/2023 - 7:03am.

Better ban them for all kids of all ages, then! Solid reasoning.

Save Florida

By Paul Buresh on Wed, 10/11/2023 - 8:10pm.

We can't solve our own issues so we will turn Florida blue with books? We will show them all, what a joke.

Mercy!

By tachometer on Wed, 10/11/2023 - 8:29pm.

I'm picturing DeSantis curled up on the floor in a corner crying for mercy pleading, "No more! We'll keep the refugees and asylum seekers, just stop sending those books!!"