And I tell you, it is amazing to me,” Raskin continued as the chair told him his time had expired.Īfter receiving more time to finish his speech, Raskin added, “It’s amazing to me to see politicians who oppose a universal, violent criminal background check and who defend assault weapons after the massacres at Columbine, after Parkland, Florida, after Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut, after Uvalde, after Santa Fe, Texas, that they are now going to keep America’s children safe by banning The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984. “We need more politicians reading books in America and fewer politicians trying to censor books in America.
Chairman, gentleman’s time’s expired,” interjected another member. And, of course, George Orwell’s 1984, because they have no sense of irony! They’re always trying to censor this one. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s extraordinary dystopian novel about a right-wing, misogynist movement which uses high technology and depraved religious ideology to control not only the minds of their followers, but the private and public lives and the fertility of women. Four years later, and a day after burying his 25-year-old son, he was at the US Capitol under coronavirus restrictions.
Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner about the dangerous fanaticism, authoritarianism, and abuse of the Taliban, a right-wing religious fundamentalist movement all about censorship and repressing women’s control over their own bodies and their own fertility. Raskin, a Democratic congressman from Maryland, took office in January 2017. Here are three of the key books that the right-wingers have been going after. Jamie Raskin of Maryland said Sunday he’s very optimistic about his cancer. Two years ago more than 1,600 books were banned in the United States of America. Jamie Raskin speaks to CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday, January 15, 2023. “Well, it’s about book banning, of course,” Raskin declared, adding: Raskin, a Democratic congressman from Maryland, took office in January 2017. Risch reportedly is behind the holdup of 75 million in congressionally. Raskin, who is currently undergoing chemotherapy, dismissed the measure, which is hyped as part of the GOP’s “war on woke,” and proceeded to suggest the real reason behind the bill is to fuel the right’s desire to ban books. Raskin circulated the letter among his Democratic House colleagues on Wednesday and was planning to send it Thursday. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) pulled no punches on Thursday while giving a floor speech denouncing a GOP-backed measure to give parents greater oversight over public school curricula.
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