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‘State-driven censorship’: new wave of book bans hits Florida school districts (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The books taken off the school shelves included The Diary of Anne Frank

"We are literally Nazis but you aren't allowed to think it"

[ It just seems like a 100% unambiguous admisison, though I'm aware there were many many similar cases in the past years ]