![]() ![]() ![]() (Thomas' book, published in 2017, has been among the top banned books nearly every year since its release.) ![]() They remember seeing Angie Thomas' novel The Hate U Give face bans years ago because it features profanity and racism, and saw it as a signal that their own book would also get caught up in controversy. Johnson anticipated that their book would be challenged even before it published. And they want teens to feel unsafe and to feel silenced - and that is just something that I refuse to see happen again, because I lived as one that felt that way." Johnson says the book has more supporters than critics "And this is really just an attack on an ideology, that just says that LGBTQ people shouldn't exist. "You can't attack something you actually don't know," they say. It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders What people miss in the conversation about banned books ![]()
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