Midwest Chick's Place

In Ontario, a high school library has gotten rid of over half its books–10,000 of them. All in the name of inclusion.

Among the purged books were works that challenge power, authority and ideology, including George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Literary classics such as Hamlet, Macbeth and To Kill a Mockingbird were also removed, along with Wuthering Heights and multiple Harry Potter novels.

I’m surprised (not really) that the liberals are not screaming about book banning since taking books that contain pornographic material out of grade school classrooms caused wailing and gnashing of teeth.

But of course books that actually enrich the mind and maybe cause some critical thinking should, to their minds, be condemned to the trash bin.

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury

Other books in the cull included Canadian history. Someone finally blew the whistle, but the books are still gone. I somehow doubt they’ll find the budget to replace them….