[Zurrrrr]

And then you have those with higher education and critical thinking capabilities who wouldn't ever join the military...

That aside, these stats are not surprising. Anyone from outside the US knows just how bad the education system is within. With red states outright banning books and knowledge, that number may just continue to climb.

[throwaway9980]

People who remove books from libraries are scared pitiful people.

People who claim that removing some books from a library is akin to banning or will have any affect on the actual dissemination of knowledge are fools at best and liars almost surely.

Education is like everything else. If you believe it is someone or something else’s responsibility, you won’t have much of it.

[Zurrrrr]

100% agree.

[Atlas22]

Curious, which bannings you are referring to? I thought this was a thing of the past.

[Zurrrrr]

Honestly, your comment makes me wonder if there is any kind of site or project keeping track of that (because there should be), because I saw a headline recently but can't remember any specifics.

Searching 'book banning' on news.google.com still returns a lot of results with towns still doing it.

I think what I was actually thinking of though, was I think Mississippi (I think) deciding to defund all libraries in retaliation for the library suing over book bans.