We Analyzed 1,626 Banned Books Here's What We Found

I find it highly subjective how they differentiate between banned and excluded books. They are all books deemed inappropriate for children. The “book ban” terminology suggests books should not be banned. But clearly there exist some books that dont belong in a children’s library.

The meaning of "banned" can be misleading. When I looked into previous "banned books" data sets I found that some of the books were moved up an age level (e.g., from elementary school to high school) which is not what people think of when they hear the word "ban." Others were books that sounded religious in nature (e.g., I recall a book from the Christian publisher, "Zondervan") which is understandable for U.S. public schools.

Banning any book about Rosa Parks comes across as a passive-aggressive declaration of racist white nationalist ideology.

okay, chart shows: &quot;activism &amp; social themes&quot; 44%, LGBTQ 24%, ... family 16%, etc, with the removal reason only being &quot;mature&quot; in 1.6% of the cases... and leads to the reasoning suggested being: &quot;1) Virtue signal by people in positions of institutional power to voting-age parents interested in school choice, parental rights, and wedge social issues to the detriment of non-voting age students 2) Reject and exclude topics that challenge a perceived status quo from the public discourse (e.g. non-heteronormativity, non-cis identity, non-traditional gender roles, and non-Judeo-Christian books are targeted)&quot;<p>this feels like &quot;I don&#x27;t understand evolution, and I can&#x27;t let my kids understand it&quot; from Futurama, but it&#x27;s about civil rights or the existence of ⓣⓗⓔ ⓖⓐⓨ~

Where does the &quot;1,626&quot; number come from?<p>In their data set they have 2,551 books in four categories:<p>Banned in Libraries and Classrooms, Banned in Libraries, Banned In Classrooms, Banned Pending Investigation,<p>If I filter out the &quot;Banned Pending Legislation&quot; entries, I get 1,164 books.

They are not &quot;banned&quot; if I can have Amazon deliver them to my door step.

wake up we are one finger away from living in a post apocalyptic world so anyone and even children need to know as much as possible about the world thus keeping books from anyone is an injustice and even harmful in a adverse living conditions like in the walking dead for example...