![]() ![]() This is because one parent at Palm Harbor University High complained. On Tuesday - in the middle of Florida’s Literacy Week, no less - district officials announced they were “erring on the side of caution” due to the novel’s sexual content and dark themes. ![]() Supporters of such measures would call it a win against wokeness, increasingly Batman villain code for anything that attempts to recognize the experience of people who aren’t straight and white. “The Bluest Eye,” published in 1970, is the latest casualty in a wave of American anti-intellectualism hitting particularly hard in Florida. It was a wholesome act of rebellion, practically Pollyanna, but it felt tangible, a sliver of dissent in Florida’s sinking bog of critical thought. The next morning, I drove through Dunedin and Palm Harbor and Tarpon Springs, sliding the copies into community book boxes. ![]()
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