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Alberta pauses book ban after schools remove Handmaid’s Tale, 1984 and other classics
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2025
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Banning 1984 is insane to me. You have to be either so stupid that you decided it should be banned but completely missed the point of the book, or you have to be straight up cartoon levels of evil.
This was more a case of malicious compliance. Province said "give us a list of books you have that meet these stupid criteria" and the school boards took their amateurishly worded MO and produced a list that met that criteria.
Malicious compliance can mean finding ways to make a good law cause problems out of some other grievance, or it can be exposing how bad a law is by following it to its logical conclusion in a public and dramatic way. This is the latter, like those groups trying to get the bible removed in southern states with these kind of laws. It’s not about the bible, it’s about showing how bad book bans are.
Literally 1984.
It doesn't even make sense if they want to ban "inappropriate" books on sex ed. The only reason to ban 1984 is because deep down they know they're building Ingsoc
1984 was dropped from Ontario curriculum in 1984. My English teacher told us this and then quit at the end of the year. After that, there was only a stupid focus on Shakespeare.
Can't think of a better advertisement for 1984 though, kids might actually read it these days thinking its an "illegal" book.