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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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really like [redacted author's name]'s book :) it's great! look it up at a library!)#but I've never enjoved the first author's online content. it always feels. um. designed to piss me off or rile me up
^ Yes, this. Engagement Farming might be a more accurate term than 'ragebait" but it's the same principle - this tiktok and others like it are designed to Get (negative) Attention. That's what's meant by Xiran Jay Zhao being a content creator first and an author second, They cleave to and create drama to forms a large following on tiktok and twitter (I'll call it X over Elon Musk's dead body). This video is actively discouraging to authors and does not offer accurate information about the way to go about trad publishing is correct: First you write your manuscript, then you query agents. That's it that's how you do it. That is how the industry works. That is, in fact, what Xiran actually DID - they have an agent at an established agency](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5v2dih6vrgbwcregngr2ecz4/bafkreif4yqvjjs62xrvcmhd5mc4get5epkwsuc3lolcwei5msbihjxsjxi)
