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Project 2025 will ban books

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Project 2025 has been a popular topic recently; one main claim about it is that legislators will completely ban certain books. Some people claim these books will be banned in libraries and public schools while others claim they will be outright banned completely.
https://lithub.com/the-republicans-project-2025-is-disastrous-for-books/
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Your claim is spot on and this article appears legit. A great way to strengthen and clarify your claim would be to include more specific information on what types of books will be banned and why. For instance, saying something along the lines of "Project 2025 seeks to ban books covering LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC identities, critical race theory, among other topics that are opposed by the right-wing."

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The claim is that Project 2025, a document of conservative policies and ideas, will ban certain books. This claim is presented by James Folta for a website called Literary Club. Literary Club is a publisher of news, journals, and books. James Folta is a writer known for often satire and exaggerated content, he himself being a comedian. One of his headlines reads "Earth is about to get a second moon" when the article explains that a tiny asteroid will pass by the Earth and get affected by Earth's gravity for a few days. Other article headline reads "There’s a lot more hair than you think stored at the Library of Congress." Furthermore, his personal website lists no educational standing or qualifications.  In the article, Folta takes a heavily biased stance against Project 2025. After all, the Literary Club website is for promoting literature.

Going back to the claim that Project 2025 will ban certain books, Folta's article quotes an article from BBC for supporting evidence. The closest thing that BBC article states to Folta's claim is that "pornography would be banned." Digging deeper, I found the 922 page Project 2025 document. Nowhere in it does it say that books will be banned. It does say that "tenets of 'critical race theory' and 'gender ideology' should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country." Therefore, specifically speaking, this claim is inaccurate. It would correct to say that Project 2025 proposes to ban pornographic content from public schools.

Sources:
https://lithub.com/the-republicans-project-2025-is-disastrous-for-books/
https://lithub.com/about-literary-hub/
https://www.jamesfolta.com/
https://lithub.com/earth-is-about-to-get-a-second-moon-but-what-will-it-mean-for-the-lit-world/
https://lithub.com/theres-a-lot-more-hair-than-you-think-stored-at-the-library-of-congress/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c977njnvq2do
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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