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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]A book about a white person gets scrutinized or removed from study way more than any book about a poor person or homosexual which was seen recently with that book the school board had to turn off the mike for. Many books about people who were harmed by the government and white people.[/quote]
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Have you looked in the YA section of an independent bookstore lately?  Books featuring characters from various marginalized groups are the only books you can find.[/b]

I'm a non-elite Dem and I still love Joe -- but the "woker-than-thou" attitude that seeps out from left wing Twitter and infects the Democratic Party needs to stop.  UMC Dems are just as guilty of living in an echo chamber as the right wing, they just don't realize it.[/quote]

Marginalized groups? That's because the majority of YAs are non-white. The bookstores are now catering for these kids and young adults. [/quote]

I agree with the PP and have also noticed the bolded.  I don’t care about what anyone else does in the bedroom, but it does seem that every other book in YA is targeted towards the LGBQT population.

My neighbor (a Catholic Latina immigrant) has a DD who wanted to do Book Wars.  She was actually somewhat hesitant because of the content of many of the books.

I understand that there is a segment of the population who is LGBQT, but is that the majority of the population?

It just seems off to me, as if there is an ‘agenda’ at play.  [/quote]

I’ve noticed the bolded too, even in younger kids’ books.

Previously I would have purchased anything that has an award sticker on it without really looking. Now I need to look at the plot and even the date. Things published 10+ years ago that won an award were actually good books, they didn’t just check some diversity box.[/quote]

Np I’ve noticed it too in the books my kindergartener brings home. She gets one a week. I read A LOT to my kids and they’re seriously boring books. She said they can only pick from certain shelves. [/quote]

Basically, if an author writes a book about any ‘marginalized’ group, it is an automatic bestseller and gets actively promoted by schools/libraries.  Even if it is a terrible book.

The other PP is correct - I have been actively seeking out older books from authors like Hurwitz, for my avid reader.

My MS kid read The Pact for English class so I read it also.  Interesting story, I guess?  But it really does seem to reinforce some stereotypes about young Black men and their backgrounds and behavior.  Besides that, it was just so poorly written.  Sure it checks the ‘diversity’ box, but there is absolutely no good reason for my kid to be reading it in MS English. It was pretty much written at a 4th grade reading level.  [/quote]

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