ROTHENBURGER: Wokeism reigns with banning of classics from school library shelves
SHADES OF FAHRENHEIT 451. That’s the Ray Bradbury novel from 1953, later made into a couple of movies, about a future in which books have been outlawed and firemen (i.e. firefighters) burn them.
It’s about censorship and the destruction of knowledge so the state can more easily control the populace. The Surrey school board’s decision to de-list four books from reading materials in school libraries isn’t quite Fahrenheit 451 but it has certain similarities.
The books pulled from the Surrey district’s reading curriculum are To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, In the Heat of the Night by John Ball and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.