In a quest to be more “inclusive,” a Canadian school board in Mississauga, Ontario has decided to purge its library of all books published before the year 2008.
Erindale Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario, ‘burned’ roughly 50% of its library book, including Harry Potter and the Hunger Games series, as part of a new “equity-based book weeding” implemented by the Peel District School Board earlier this year, according to the CBC.
The board insists it was following a wider directive from the Minister of Education to make learning resources more inclusive and reflective of the community.
Yes, a library with empty shelves sounds very inclusive…
Also purged were classics like “The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank” and iconic children’s books like “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.”
When asked WTF, the school board has been notably evasive, refusing to address whether books are being removed solely based on their publication date. Their statement, which claims books are removed if they are “damaged, inaccurate, or not checked out often,” doesn’t check out whatsoever.
10th-grade student of Japanese descent Reina Takata worries that significant portions of her heritage could vanish with this book purge.
“Authors who wrote about Japanese internment camps are going to be erased,” she warned.
Official backpedaling
Given the mounting backlash, Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce finally weighed in, condemning the practice as “offensive, illogical, and counterintuitive.” He has since ordered the board to cease the book removals immediately.
The larger issue here is the increasing trend of over-correction in the name of “wokeness,” often leading to the vanishing of history, culture, and nuanced discourse. At what point does the push for equity turn into a frenzy of historical whitewashing? Erindale Secondary School may have given us the answer: when you arbitrarily remove 50% of your library in the name of inclusivity, you’re probably doing it wrong.
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It is colonization.
Tyranny by the minority …
Really seems obvious now….we “interred “ the wrong group of people……
NAZIS…..reeee
Straight out of 1984.
To the Leftists, 1984 is a manual.
Gotta leave room for the porn they will put in the libraries
That means they erased the hulahoax!
The Hola-Hoax was a scam.ran in Tijuana where if you as a tourist said “Hola” to a street vender they would claim you agreed to buy whatever crap they are selling and are now reneging…then start screaming at you.
Then several would crowd around you acting like they want to see what the hubbub was but in fact they would be stealing everything from the purses and pockets.
often leading to the vanishing of history, culture
The goal?
Erase whitey.
And replace them with books like Johnny’s wiener or Nancy’s mommies. Parents, pull your kids out or your the authentic root of the problem in this failing society.
Anthony’s Weiner Pics
And Nancy’s Hammers.
😂
The really scary part will be if and when AMZN does the same to its book department … they’ve shown that they’re willing to go along with whatever the government tells them to do (NAC, anyone?) …
We are reducing the reading options because less is more.
Why do schools have libraries when the students have such low reading scores?
Are these ALL picture books?
In other news, Canadian authorities have elected to abandon every invention prior to 2008, leaving them squatting in the dirt and eating grubs. After the grubs are gone, they will eat each other.
At least most of them will finally feel at home in Canada.
deleting history
I’m surprised “Anne Frank” was removed considering the tribe behind this. Censorship is the Jews’ way of rewriting history to demonize gentiles.
Any time that I start to second guess the position that I have taken in this world, all that I need do is read an article such as this one to remind me why I took that position in the first place. If I am really feeling weak, I think of those multitudes streaming across the southern border….Oh what have those evil bastards got planned for us?
The Diary of Anne Frank is a hoax and should be banned. Jews have zero shame or integrity.
Justin has to go. Preferably into the ground.
Reverse book burning, Hitler had the joo porn burned while Fedelito replaces anything that is not commie porn. Is this a new style book burning? That is what it looks like to me.
Does not matter if the books removed were actually burned.
I could see removing “Diary of Anne Frank” which is a proven fraud. (fiction masquerading as fact is less than worthless)
The decision to purge books published before 2008 in Canadian schools, driven by a quest for inclusivity, is a double-edged sword. While it aims to modernize curriculum and align with evolving societal values, it also risks erasing valuable literary and historical perspectives. It’s crucial to strike a balance between inclusivity and preserving a diverse range of voices, as discussed in the essay at https://writinguniverse.com/free-essay-examples/bridge/.
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