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Which of the books on the ALA's list of the 100-most-challenged books of the 2010s do you believe was probably challenged by "left-leaning" busybodies?

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbook...

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I'd start with #2 on the list, Captain Underpants. It got banned in many libraries due to supposedly "racist" imagery. [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-race-captain-underpan...

Eh, that's not why Captain Underpants is banned, though. Captain Underpants is banned because of these reasons.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-captain-underpants-is-th...

Nope. It was removed from libraries and book stores because some people were offended by the images in the books.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56577725

Again that article is about The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future not Captain Underpants.

Ook and Gluk is a Captain Underpants book. Captain Underpants is a series and this is part of it and has the main characters from Captain Underpants. The series (not an individual title) is #2 on the list because there are challenges to the books because of words and images that offend some people. Sometimes those people are liberals - and no I'm not saying it's 50/50. However, when Dav Pilkey gets his book challenged for offending people he has to issue public apologies and donate all revenue to a charity. Not so for any other title on that list.

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