I recently read a writeup that made me think of a happening in the news recently.
Coming on the waves of the Trump Administration's DEI purge, the Department of Offense has banned several books from schools the Department of Defense runs in the U.S. and abroad. One of these books is actress Julianne Moore's Freckleface Strawberry, which is (according to Moore herself) "a semi-autobiographical story about a seven year old girl who dislikes her freckles but eventually learns to live with them when she realises that she is different 'just like everybody else.' It is a book I wrote for my children and for other kids to remind them that we all struggle, but are united by our humanity and our community.
I can certainly understand how Resident in Chief Trump, his crony Pete Hesketh, and their weak sauce Department of Defense could hate "our humanity and our community." They (and many Republicans, too) are offended and frightened by communities of people with slightly different
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