girlies all the historical ag books but felicity are banned in florida lmao
This is terrible news. I’m infuriated. The banning obviously isn’t because American Girl released A Smart Girl’s Guide to Body Image last year. Otherwise they’d ban all American Girl books, not just everything but Felicity and Molly. No, they’re specifically banning anything that shows a less than perfect image of American history. Because THEY KNOW that teaching American history means teaching its history of racial oppression, slavery, child labor, antisemitism, segregation, and misogyny. They know that, because they know EXACTLY what to ban. But they don’t want YOU to know that. They don’t want YOU to understand that learning about the mistakes and atrocities of the past means you learn how not to repeat them.
@desertdollranch I mentioned this in another post but their motivations are incredibly transparent if you just look at Kaya and Josefina. They have absolutely no discussion on systemic racism, and Kaya doesn’t even meet a white person. They both have none of the eeeevil “critical race theory” discussion that these people are saying they’re banning. So why ban them? It’s OBVIOUS as hell it’s because they’re stories about people of color.
Felicity’s story has people of color but only as her family’s slaves. Molly’s books have no people of color whatsoever and she’s just a good ol’ american patriot the entire time. Meanwhile, for all the other girls who aren’t of color (because god forbid we let a woman of color LIVE)? Caroline’s father hired a talented black man for his shipyard and pays him fairly. Kirsten feels bad for indigenous people. Samantha stands up for workers’ rights, womens’ suffrage, and adopts irish immigrants into her family at a time when they were considered a minority. Rebecca’s books discuss being Jewish in a culturally-Christian country. Kit is sympathetic to the homeless. Maryellen likes vaccines and, like Samantha, stands up for a girl who wouldn’t have been considered white at the time. Julie’s a feminist environmentalist with divorced parents and her best friends are a Chinese girl and a deaf girl. Courtney deals with the AIDS crisis with a specific message lambasting disinformation which we can’t have.
It’s just… so transparent what they’re actually banned for, and I think that it’s showing best with AG right now, because they really don’t have any good excuses. We just know what their awful motives are.
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