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Banned In The U.S.A. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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State of Book Banning
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Good afternoon I am alah aadi a media
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reporter here at the Washington Post and
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also co-host of the podcast post reports
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and I'm so pleased to be joined here
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today by award-winning author Chimamanda
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Adichie to discuss the ongoing trend of
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banning books and also the power of the
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written words so chimamanda please let's
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welcome her thank you so much for being
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here thank
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you and we're doing handheld mics today
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so so welcome to Washington Post Live
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and I thought we could start the
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conversation by by really just laying
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out the landscape the state of book
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Banning because that's part of what we
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want to dig into here and to understand
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it so pen America every year they
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release an index of book Banning in this
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country they track it and they found
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that last year there was a 33% increase
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of book bans from the year before I
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actually looked you up you appear on
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this list several times you have that
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distinction I guess is the word we could
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maybe use um and also the Washington
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Post has conducted a first of its kind
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of analysis of of children's picture
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books and found that 75% of book band
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challenges were with characters with
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lgbtq characters and 25% were about
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books accused of being quote anti-
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police and another founding finding I'm
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throwing so many statistics at you is
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that the post found that the majority of
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book bands in the 20 2020 and 21 school
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year came from just 11 people so that's
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sort of the you know the landscape that
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we confronting here so it's a lot to
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take in but as an author I wonder when
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you hear that what do you see as the
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intellectual route of this move of book
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Banning I know right um well it's really
Intellectual Route
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lovely to be here and I've been watching
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this um live stream and it's just so
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nice to be part of this sort of this um
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group of incredible women um the one of
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the problems with having little clips of
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you be part of the introduction is
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everything I wanted to say has been said
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in the clip so I'm just oh it's okay we
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can say him again it's not a problem so
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thank you all for coming let's go we're
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going to go get coffee now y'all are
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good we have a lot to talk about exactly
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you know it's interesting mean I'm
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struck by and I knew that that the I
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don't think the book Banning in this
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country is so much
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about books as it is
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about this kind of um you know extreme
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polarization in this country I think
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it's a symptom of it I don't think I
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don't think we can talk about book
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burning without talking about
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polarization because really people
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Banning these books don't actually read
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I mean many of them don't it's true
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though they don't so it's not as though
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they are sort of you know Book Lovers
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who are really dedicated no they don't
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read I mean I read a piece about a woman
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who was challenging so many books in her



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