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Them banning the bans makes me chuckle.
I recommend reading the US constitution. Basically this is what the Bill of Rights is.
Also many States added bans on banning of abortions to their Constitutions for the same reason.
We need a lot more of these, like bans on bans of encrypted apps without backdoors. Bans on bans of “vagrancy” and other laws made to target black people. Bans on book bans in prison.
Conservatives should have banned ban-bans first if they wanted to get their way.
Isn’t that in Project 2025 somewhere?
Yes but project 2025 has been banned so we are all good there
“Somehow, Palpatine returned…”
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden thi yer?
Parents: reads what’s in some of the books in schools
Teachers: “I’ll ask you to not use profane and rude language like that, Sir”
Look it up. That actually happened
Look what up? What exactly do you want me to write in my search engine? I copied and pasted your entire first two sentences and got no results.
I vaguely recall this and it did happen, I wish I could link a source.
It’s kind of out of context though. You can support having a book available with profane language and suggest that people not use such language at a school board meeting at the same time.
I whole heartedly agree with you. Context and language does matter.
That’s why using the term “ban” is completely disingenuous. There are some books that were removed from school libraries (and in a very small amount of cases, city public libraries) based on their subject matter. These books were still WIDELY available to purchase in book stores and online.
Nothing was “banned”. They were just removed from public school libraries.
“thatll teach them damn librals”
What in the world are you talking about?
I could do the same thing with the book The Color Purple. That doesn’t mean we should ban The Color Purple
Growing up I was under the impression that no one could ban books in the US. Fahrenheit 451 was a book we read and studied in sixth grade. I think that’s around 12 years old-ish. That’s when we also started learning the constitution and basics of law.
It blows my mind we’re going through this nonsense right now
Growing up I didn’t think abortion was controversial, only very religious conservative people standing outside abortion clinics find if controversial. Wasn’t until we overturned roe v wade when I realized there are way more people who disagree with abortion than I initially thought.
interesting perspective. i grew up in a super conservative circle and i was under the impression that most people found it morally wrong. in reality, the vast majority of Americans support access to abortion in some way, regardless if they would personally have one themselves
The second I heard Trump got elected, I gave standard ebooks $10 and grabbed their entire library, and did a “shopping spree” on zlibrary.
History repeats itself. Left, right, left, right. One foot after the other. It’ll be here soon.
You’re right of course, but your 6th grade teacher should have told you that the subject of the book could happen again. Freedom, eternal vigilance, and so on.
I mean, it was sixth grade. They could have said that. I didn’t keep the transcripts.
You don’t have a pornographic memory?
I do, and I like what you’re not wearing right now. Mmmmmm! Yeahhh!
I remember learning through multiple personal experiences some time during highschool that some adults were vastly less intelligent and wise than some of my fellow 16 yr olds, it was shocking to me. Honestly I think some people hit puberty and just began coasting, ego and entitlement outweighed curiosity, and they began to live with the belief that society’s collection of history, science, and reasoning, was worth less than their own personal opinion.
Oh, absolutely. Peaking in highschool is a very real thing.
its a shame those same people are also 90% of the management field.
Now prohibit laws against hitchhiking
The bill permits restriction in the case of “developmentally inappropriate material” for certain age groups. The measure also requires local school boards and the governing bodies of public libraries to set up policies for book curation and the removal of library materials, including a way to address concerns over certain items.
I was thinking that probably not all books are suited to a school library lol
Tbf most of the ones “banned” are banned because of language (I found as many of the PDFs as I could one time and searched the documents for “fuck,” which many of them contained, or other words that would be banned in schools), or in one case a graphic novel with a panel depicting a blowjob, and I have been corrected before that it “wasn’t technically a blowjob it was ‘strap on play,’” but, c’mon strap on play is banned in schools too whether it’s between straights or gays. Sure it’s educational, but it’s not the same as an anti racist book that has the N-word in a historical context (TKAM) or something. Most of those are still going to be banned due to that, the rape scenes in a few, “fuck,” “cocksucker,” etc.
This seems more like a feel good measure just to say “See we fixed it! All those same books are still banned, but now we’re claiming the actual reasons instead of homophobia.” I’d be interested to see an itemized breakdown of the ISBNs before/after.
For reference, here’s a PDF to Gender Queer on Archive, one of the most popularized, at the top of every “they banned these books” list:
https://archive.org/details/gender-queer-a-memoir-by-maia-kobabe-z-lib.org/page/62/mode/1up
A) Share it with anyone who needs it! I don’t believe in limiting the free flow of information online or at the public libraries (bans there are eggregious flat out), but
B) Check out page 62 and page 168, this would never fly in my schools whether it was straight or gay, let’s be real.
can they prohibit foundations of geopolitics?
Based
So Hitlers and nazis books cant be banned? Im literally shaking uncontrollably and convulsing. New nazis
