{"id":113661,"date":"2023-05-24T02:55:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T02:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=113661"},"modified":"2023-05-24T02:55:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T02:55:43","slug":"majority-of-book-ban-requests-across-south-and-nation-filed-by-just-11-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=113661","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Book Ban Requests Across South and Nation Filed by Just 11 Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2023\/05\/23\/lgbtq-book-ban-challengers\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Books about LGBTQ people are fast becoming the main target of a historic wave of school book challenges \u2014 and a large percentage of the complaints come from a minuscule number of hyperactive adults, a first-of-its-kind Washington Post analysis found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A stated wish to shield children from sexual content is the main factor animating attempts to remove LGBTQ books, The Post found. The second-most common reason cited for pulling LGBTQ texts was an explicit desire to prevent children from reading about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary and queer lives&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A small number of people were responsible for most of the book challenges, The Post found. Individuals who filed 10 or more complaints were responsible for two-thirds of all challenges. In some cases, these serial filers relied on a network of volunteers gathered together under the aegis of conservative parents\u2019 groups such as Moms for Liberty&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The majority of the 1,000-plus book challenges analyzed by The Post were filed by just 11 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each of these people brought 10 or more challenges against books in their school district; one man filed 92 challenges. Together, these serial filers constituted 6 percent of all book challengers \u2014 but were responsible for 60 percent of all filings.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Books about LGBTQ people are fast becoming the main target of a historic wave of school book challenges \u2014 and a large percentage of the complaints come from a minuscule number of hyperactive adults, a first-of-its-kind Washington Post analysis found. A stated wish to shield children from sexual content is the main factor animating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113662,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113661\/revisions\/113662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}