Virginia School Board Proposes Burning Books

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you can’t tell the difference between books that kids should not read and they a public school shouldn’t buy and freedom of speech allowing people to print books for others to buy on Amazon they you may not like, eg the Anarchist Cookbook. Who care they suggested burning the books - red herring - the real issue is why was this garbage in a public school to begin with? Should we be giving Rabelais to the K-5 set next? Perhaps a little a Marquis de Sade? On the plus side at least the writing will surely be better.

I don't know who you are but please stop suggesting that you get to decide what constitutes "garbage" among the books my kids can choose from in their school library. You are not raising my kids and should have no influence on them. If you don't want your kids reading certain books then send the list of books you forbid them to check out to your school so the librarian knows to tell your kids, "sorry, your dad won't allow you to read this."

There are always choices being made on which books are in a school library or any library for that matter. Buy the garbage for your kids at home. We don’t need more 50 shades of grey, we need more Shakespeare.

Plenty of people throughout history have said Shakespeare was garbage. And full of sex and violence.

But good luck getting kids to voluntarily check out Shakespeare to read on their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you can’t tell the difference between books that kids should not read and they a public school shouldn’t buy and freedom of speech allowing people to print books for others to buy on Amazon they you may not like, eg the Anarchist Cookbook. Who care they suggested burning the books - red herring - the real issue is why was this garbage in a public school to begin with? Should we be giving Rabelais to the K-5 set next? Perhaps a little a Marquis de Sade? On the plus side at least the writing will surely be better.

I don't know who you are but please stop suggesting that you get to decide what constitutes "garbage" among the books my kids can choose from in their school library. You are not raising my kids and should have no influence on them. If you don't want your kids reading certain books then send the list of books you forbid them to check out to your school so the librarian knows to tell your kids, "sorry, your dad won't allow you to read this."

There are always choices being made on which books are in a school library or any library for that matter. Buy the garbage for your kids at home. We don’t need more 50 shades of grey, we need more Shakespeare.

Plenty of people throughout history have said Shakespeare was garbage. And full of sex and violence.

But good luck getting kids to voluntarily check out Shakespeare to read on their own.

You're right. Let them check out snuff films and pornography magazines. People do read them for the articles after all.

[Anonymous]

You voted in Youngkin good luck with that

Morons

Banning books is just the beginning Va schools are now ruined.

Hello religious right and the dumbing down of schools
I mean hell Youngkin sent his kid to private school and he’s a moron so yay VA Governor is a crappy parent and has no idea how to educate kids .

But yay prayer back in schools woo hoo now which prayer given there are lots of religious people in VA .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you can’t tell the difference between books that kids should not read and they a public school shouldn’t buy and freedom of speech allowing people to print books for others to buy on Amazon they you may not like, eg the Anarchist Cookbook. Who care they suggested burning the books - red herring - the real issue is why was this garbage in a public school to begin with? Should we be giving Rabelais to the K-5 set next? Perhaps a little a Marquis de Sade? On the plus side at least the writing will surely be better.

I don't know who you are but please stop suggesting that you get to decide what constitutes "garbage" among the books my kids can choose from in their school library. You are not raising my kids and should have no influence on them. If you don't want your kids reading certain books then send the list of books you forbid them to check out to your school so the librarian knows to tell your kids, "sorry, your dad won't allow you to read this."

There are always choices being made on which books are in a school library or any library for that matter. Buy the garbage for your kids at home. We don’t need more 50 shades of grey, we need more Shakespeare.

Plenty of people throughout history have said Shakespeare was garbage. And full of sex and violence.

But good luck getting kids to voluntarily check out Shakespeare to read on their own.

You're right. Let them check out snuff films and pornography magazines. People do read them for the articles after all.

You are being ridiculous. Cite the titles and the school that has snuff films in their library. You can’t present a good faith argument. I bet you are not a college graduate because you never learned to present facts, just hyperbole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you can’t tell the difference between books that kids should not read and they a public school shouldn’t buy and freedom of speech allowing people to print books for others to buy on Amazon they you may not like, eg the Anarchist Cookbook. Who care they suggested burning the books - red herring - the real issue is why was this garbage in a public school to begin with? Should we be giving Rabelais to the K-5 set next? Perhaps a little a Marquis de Sade? On the plus side at least the writing will surely be better.

I don't know who you are but please stop suggesting that you get to decide what constitutes "garbage" among the books my kids can choose from in their school library. You are not raising my kids and should have no influence on them. If you don't want your kids reading certain books then send the list of books you forbid them to check out to your school so the librarian knows to tell your kids, "sorry, your dad won't allow you to read this."

There are always choices being made on which books are in a school library or any library for that matter. Buy the garbage for your kids at home. We don’t need more 50 shades of grey, we need more Shakespeare.

Plenty of people throughout history have said Shakespeare was garbage. And full of sex and violence.

But good luck getting kids to voluntarily check out Shakespeare to read on their own.

You're right. Let them check out snuff films and pornography magazines. People do read them for the articles after all.

You are being ridiculous. Cite the titles and the school that has snuff films in their library. You can’t present a good faith argument. I bet you are not a college graduate because you never learned to present facts, just hyperbole.

I bet you're not a college grad. It's sarcasm. Sorry about your lack of reading comprehension skills.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say keep going GOP. You will succeed in making VA permanently a blue state.

Yes, that’s definitely what the last election showed. Parents really love handing over the reigns of their children’s education to school boards.

They are going to like turning over the reins to people like you even less. I fully support your right to decide what your own children read. But when you also appoint yourself the arbiter of what everyone else's children can read, you are going too far. If you don't want your child to read the book, don't let them check it out of the library. But supporting book burning because of your own preferences is unacceptable.

Sounds like this book is about the same as the Bible as far as sordid tales. So let it stay on the shelf.

[Anonymous]

Right? The Bible has some pretty twisted stuff in it

Can we ban or burn it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right? The Bible has some pretty twisted stuff in it

Can we ban or burn it?

Why are people not upset about conservatives wanting to ban and burn the Bible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right? The Bible has some pretty twisted stuff in it

Can we ban or burn it?

Why are people not upset about conservatives wanting to ban and burn the Bible?

This is not about "banning" books. It is about which books are in public school libraries whose population, with few exceptions, is composed of minors. It is about what is appropriate. No one is banning those books from publication, sales, or public libraries.

[jsteele]

Make sure to attend this upcoming book burning event in Fredericksburg:

https://www.facebook.com/events/5126619377351497

Start having your children check out library books from there schools now! (Ones you do NOT want in our schools)At the school board meeting we will have a fire pit in the parking lot. And will burn every last one of them you bring. Yes, at the end of the year, we will have to pay for them. But this year no one will be able to check them out. Feel free to bring marshmallows and a stick.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Make sure to attend this upcoming book burning event in Fredericksburg:

https://www.facebook.com/events/5126619377351497

Start having your children check out library books from there schools now! (Ones you do NOT want in our schools)At the school board meeting we will have a fire pit in the parking lot. And will burn every last one of them you bring. Yes, at the end of the year, we will have to pay for them. But this year no one will be able to check them out. Feel free to bring marshmallows and a stick.

The organizer should be more concerned with their poor spelling than with what other people’s kids read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You voted in Youngkin good luck with that

Morons

Banning books is just the beginning Va schools are now ruined.

Hello religious right and the dumbing down of schools
I mean hell Youngkin sent his kid to private school and he’s a moron so yay VA Governor is a crappy parent and has no idea how to educate kids .

But yay prayer back in schools woo hoo now which prayer given there are lots of religious people in VA .

Troll.

[Anonymous]

Burning books is certainly a bad choice of words. We don't want to burn any books in the USA, but limiting what books are available to kids in schools is not unreasonable. Books should be age appropriate, and kids should not be forced or indoctrinated into politically charged ideologies.

However, I would also argue that Big Tech censorship is the modern day equivalent of book burning. It's convenient to claim you are only censoring "misinformation" and "hate speech" - But who gets to determine this? Sometimes Democrats will call a political opinion "hate speech" simply because it is a position held by most white conservatives. Sometimes they will call facts "misinformation" for bizarre reasons. For example, someone posting a personal bad reaction to a vaccine will get hit with a "misinformation" label stating that vaccines are extremely safe. The fact that vaccines are usually safe does not make someone's personal experience "misinformation". The truth is the truth. Of course the Wuhan lab leak theory was called "hate speech" until investigations revealed that it might possibly be true.

I could go on and on, but the point is censorship is bad and prevents us from openly sharing ideas and arriving at the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Burning books is certainly a bad choice of words. We don't want to burn any books in the USA, but limiting what books are available to kids in schools is not unreasonable. Books should be age appropriate, and kids should not be forced or indoctrinated into politically charged ideologies.

However, I would also argue that Big Tech censorship is the modern day equivalent of book burning. It's convenient to claim you are only censoring "misinformation" and "hate speech" - But who gets to determine this? Sometimes Democrats will call a political opinion "hate speech" simply because it is a position held by most white conservatives. Sometimes they will call facts "misinformation" for bizarre reasons. For example, someone posting a personal bad reaction to a vaccine will get hit with a "misinformation" label stating that vaccines are extremely safe. The fact that vaccines are usually safe does not make someone's personal experience "misinformation". The truth is the truth. Of course the Wuhan lab leak theory was called "hate speech" until investigations revealed that it might possibly be true.

I could go on and on, but the point is censorship is bad and prevents us from openly sharing ideas and arriving at the truth.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Burning books is certainly a bad choice of words. We don't want to burn any books in the USA, […]

Did you read Jeff’s post? The GOP literally wants to burn books.