They Started Banning Books. Now They’re Banning Everything Else.
This week is Banned Book Week, where we look at how books across the country are challenged. However, this banned book week, we're seeing a disturbing trend that cannot be ignored. Art is being censored, and it's not just books. Anime and video games are taken away. It's becoming illegal to own Dragon Ball manga.
Book bans are on the rise. We are censoring everything nowadays. And it won't end with just books.
0:00 All the Best Books are Banned
2:33 The People Who Ban Books Don’t Know What They’re Talking About
3:54 Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret and Judy Blume
7:04 Who is Banning These Books?
8:56 The Most Banned Books in America
10:42 The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, and DEI
12:32 The Most Dangerous Book in America Today?
13:39 The Attempt to Ban Heartstopper Gives Away the Whole Game
16:29 People Who Ban Books Never Actually Read the Books (BookLook, The Hate U Give)
18:28 It’s Not Just Books (Collective Shout, Itch.io)
22:31 Everything Sounds Explicit When You Turn Art into Buzzwords
24:21 Let’s Talk About Netflix Cancellations
26:24 Texas’s Anime Bans
30:02 Bans Only Work if They Go Unchallenged