Trevor Noah is taking a swipe at efforts to ban books that is spreading across America. On “The Daily Show”, the host discusses “the latest culture war tearing apart schools,” after the American Library Association tracked more than 230 book challenges nationwide by groups of parents and school officials who were trying to ban certain books.
Noah shows one clip suggesting the books be burned: “They want to burn books? Burn books? We’re not in the 1900s. We’re living in 2022.
We shouldn’t be burning books. We have air fryers and microwaves and all kinds of cool s**t now. We could be filleting the books.” READ MORE: LeVar Burton Admits He Doesn’t Want To Be The New ‘Jeopardy!’ Host: ‘We’re Trying To Figure Out What The Right Game Show For LeVar Burton Would Be’ Noah points out that books are being banned from certain schools due to supposed topics of race, gender and sexuality, even saying one parent wanted to ban a Michelle Obama biography.
He tells viewers, “You can see how crazy this book-banning trend has gotten. They’re banning books about race, gender, sexuality, emotions, history.
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