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   Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jun-2025 02:48:53 JST Kim Scheinberg

   Objectively, it's far more troubling that they're banning Toni Morrison and David Levithan and Art Spiegelman and any books that even hint at representing the right's Horsemen of the Apocalypse

   But there's something so completely batshit about banning _Calvin and Hobbes_, a comic strip so family friendly that it ran uncensored in the most conservative newspapers in the country for more than a decade

   https://pen.org/magic-tree-house-author-calvin-and-hobbes-among-hundreds-of-tennessee-book-bans/

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jun-2025 08:59:13 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     • Michael Katz

     @MGKatz036
     Lol, absolutely not

     They don't even realize that the most subversive part of Calvin & Hobbes is all the anti-capitalism

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     Michael Katz (mgkatz036@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jun-2025 08:59:15 JST Michael Katz

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     @kims Agree that this is INSANE. Blood pressure going to the roof.

     Random thought: do you think they're playing 4D Chess and the best way to encourage a kid to read something is to ban it?

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     Sara Joy :happy_pepper: (sarajw@front-end.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jun-2025 18:24:02 JST Sara Joy :happy_pepper:

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     @kims maybe they don't like mom and dad's anticapitalism:

     (via https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/hpd7e3/these_days_the_junk_mail_comes_through_instagram/)