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Culture Wars: Moral Kombat - Book Bans on the Rise | Hasan Minhaj

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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The Culture War Isn't About Books, Right?

In loklahoma, a bill sets a ten thousand dollar bounty to be collected by parents for each day a challenged book remains on library shelves. Texas, governor gregg abbot called for criminal charges against staff who provide kids with pornographic books. School librarians fearing for their own safety. Ten grand is a lot of money. Ten grand for banning a book is more than most authors made for writing that book. So that's the latest culture war that's tearing america apart. It's happening in schools. And who knows if it'll even stop there, because maybe it'l statton schools. But pretty soon any place the kids go to to find books could become a target

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