Vice President J.D. Vance’s celebrated 2016 memoir may be a little too edgy for President Donald Trump's White House.
The bestselling memoir, which was adapted into a Netflix film, became tangled up in a “censorship review” triggered by Trump’s executive order axing diversity concepts throughout the federal government, according to reports.
That led to Vance’s book being included in a group of over a dozen others that have been yanked off shelves in school libraries run by the Department of Defense Education Activity, The 19th reported Thursday. The department operates 161 schools across the world “for children from active-duty U.S. military families and DoD civilian families.”
While “Hillbilly Elegy” wasn't banned, department officials flagged the book for “a compliance review,” according to The 19th, which cited PEN America, a freedom of expression advocacy group. It is known to include profanity, "references to LGBTQ+ people and passages celebrating diversity," the report said.
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“At this time, we are conducting a review,” Jessica Tackaberry, communications director for DoDEA’s Europe region, told The 19th in a statement. “No materials have been permanently removed from our school libraries pending completion of the review. During this period, materials under review will have access limited to professional staff.”
Trump’s order barred the military from promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives related to race, sex or “gender ideology."
Other book titles PEN America said were caught up in the review include “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley and “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
