cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16364130
Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt and fart’
Conservative-dominated court restores books denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’ to school libraries
An appellate court has ruled that Texas cannot ban books from libraries simply because they mention “butt and fart” and other content which some state officials may dislike.
The fifth US circuit court of appeals issued its decision on Thursday in a 76-page majority opinion, which was written by Judge Jacques Wiener Jr and opened with a quote from American poet Walt Whitman: “The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.”
In its decision, the appellate court declared that “government actors may not remove books from a public library with the intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree”.
mention “butt and fart”
denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’
Some people
Yeah. They (pretend to) consider the kind of things that children (and many adults) find more hilarious than anything else “pornographic filth” and racial and ethnic slurs protected speech.
These people are literally mentally unwell authoritarian bigots.
Americans completely lost the plot.
Makes me think they have poop and fart fetishes
An appellate court has ruled that Texas cannot ban books from libraries
We now live in a world where a news article needs to contain this line. (and this is far from the only recent example)
Think about that.
Yeah… The jury’s still out on whether or not this is the darkest timeline, but it’s definitely the stupidest 🤦
This timeline went off the rails somewhere between The Berestein Bears and Sinbad’s genie movie.
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Those books include seven “butt and fart” books with titles including I Broke My Butt! and Larry the Farting Leprechaun
I know what’s on my summer reading list.
Oh thank god…
That was a close one for your publishing empire!
Butt, farts are funny!
