Dear John,
Stand against MAGA Republicans’ authoritarian book bans—order your free “I Read Banned Books” bookmark and sticker bundle while supplies last.
Ron DeSantis, Florida's Republican governor, has banned 54 math textbooks from being used in Florida's K-12 public schools for allegedly including "divisive concepts" and "indoctrination."1
One math textbook was banned because it had a lesson guiding students to learn about "empathizing with classmates."2 You read that correctly. The MAGA movement wants to ban empathy.
DeSantis's mathematics book ban would be utterly laughable if it weren't a despicable attack on our freedoms and an attempt to control our kids’ minds.
For months, MoveOn has been working to stop the far right's book bans and other attempts by Trump's Republican Party to take over our schools. To help spread the message of resistance, we've just reprinted a big batch of our hugely popular "I Read Banned Books" stickers and bookmarks, and we're giving them away for free while supplies last.
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The current right-wing push for book bans is the strongest that it’s been in decades, with attempts to stop students from learning about the Holocaust, slavery, gender and sexuality, and more.
Book-banning efforts by school boards and other lawmakers are soaring to the highest levels seen in decades, and DeSantis’ crusade against math textbooks is nonsensical and dangerous. Next up in Florida: The state is reviewing its social studies textbooks.3 And recently, a Tennessee school board banned "Maus," a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust.4
Make no mistake: The MAGA movement is attempting to wage a white supremacist culture war and march our country closer toward authoritarianism. They will not win. As we have done in the past, our grassroots, people-powered movement will fight back, and together we will succeed.
Help spread the message by ordering your free "I Read Banned Books" sticker and bookmark now. Place the sticker somewhere visible, and use your bookmark to keep your place in your banned book!
Thanks for all you do,
— MoveOn
P.S. Here’s another way to fight back against MAGA Republicans: You can start a petition on MoveOn to push back against their white supremacist, authoritarian moves.
Sources:
1. "DeSantis defends math textbook rejection as Dems seek proof of critical race theory lessons," Politico, April 18, 2022
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/18/florida-critical-race-theory-math-textbooks-00025918
2. "Florida releases 4 prohibited math textbook examples. Here they are." The Washington Post, April 21, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/21/4-math-textbook-problems-florida-prohibited/
3. "School Board in Tennessee Bans Teaching of Holocaust Novel 'Maus,'"The New York Times, January 27, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/us/maus-banned-holocaust-tennessee.html
4. "How will state’s textbook rejections impact Miami schools? Hint: School boards have last say,"Miami Herald, April 21, 2022
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article260563017.html
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