GOP endorsed school board candidates

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Anonymous wrote:The current FCPS school board does not have a single GOP, or even independent, member. They are all democrats.

The current board has repeatedly insisted FCPS schools absolutely must include certain books in FCPS libraries because of “equity” and support for LGTBQIA+ students. They insist your children must be able to see illustrations like this in the school library (except, the children’s version is not blurred out).



Would you feel comfortable showing fellatio drawings to your own children?

It’s not a dick.

NP. That's your response? How incredibly typical for a Democrat.

So a person sucking a strap-on is appropriate material for an 11yr old to have access to, or be tempted to review it because they saw it promoted during the American Library Association Banned Book promotion?

11 year olds aren’t in HS.

More lies.

Do your research. It's in middle school libraries and high school libraries, despite author now backtracking and saying that her book was for high school and up. Whatever, it's all silly because the content is still porn. It's just GAY porn so for some reason everyone is defensive of it as an LGBT book.
I'm not that hung up on it in general b/c the kids all have phones in their pockets and can stumble on this stuff at any time if they want to. And I'm all about anyone being able to access porn if they want to in the public library (would prefer age restricted to 18 and up), but I definitely get that it's weird to have pornographic drawings available in the SCHOOL library.

What is weird is how vigorously the current school board fought to keep pornography (gay, straight or otherwise) in school libraries where, as pointed out above: if your creepy 50 year-old neighbor gave pornography to your 14 year-old and tried to hide it from you, that person would rightly be arrested.

But it’s also a sad fact that every 14 year-old with a phone has access to internet porn and has probably seen some by that age. It doesn’t make porn OK for kids though. It’s really destructive and so demeaning, really.

Porn is bad for kids. This book is not porn.

The image is not porn?

It depicts a tween, or a teen, wearing a strap-on dildo, while another tween gives them a blow-job / performs fellatio on the first tween.

If graphic images of fellatio are not pornographic to you, and you think tweens should be looking at these images in FCPS school libraries, I guess we disagree.

Are you one of the School Board candidates?

No. That’s not porn. And you clearly didn’t read the book.

I'm going to check it out, but with that illustration - what difference does it make if you read the book? It literally don't think it matters if I read the book.

Because then you’d understand that the story (and corresponding images) aren’t meant to “stimulate” anyone. If anything, it tells the story of someone choosing to wait to have sexual experiences.

I'm on the Fairfax County library hold list for the book - I'll be the judge I'm no prude but that pic is pretty surprising that anyone would defend being in a school library.

This page is only one example. Many people who read the "book-banning" headlines/articles have never seen any of the images. Usually the books are described as having "LGTBQIA+ themes" and there is no reference, much less a description, of the specific images parents find objectionable.

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Anonymous wrote:The current FCPS school board does not have a single GOP, or even independent, member. They are all democrats.

The current board has repeatedly insisted FCPS schools absolutely must include certain books in FCPS libraries because of “equity” and support for LGTBQIA+ students. They insist your children must be able to see illustrations like this in the school library (except, the children’s version is not blurred out).



Would you feel comfortable showing fellatio drawings to your own children?

It’s not a dick.

NP. That's your response? How incredibly typical for a Democrat.

So a person sucking a strap-on is appropriate material for an 11yr old to have access to, or be tempted to review it because they saw it promoted during the American Library Association Banned Book promotion?

Yes

This is the divide.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not give a flying rat's a$$ what you as an individual think is "porn." And FTR, no I do not consider the books here discussed "porn." But it doesn't matter what I think, either, as it concerns your kids.

You decided for YOUR kid. I will decide for mine. You have zero right to restrict my kid's access to the full range of publications in a library. You want to "forbid" your own kids, have at it. If you want to have a "consent form" for you to opt your kid out of having access to it or checking it out, knock yourself out. But make no mistake, you are a fascist a--hole if you are trying to dictate that for other people.

The thing I find funny, aside from the attempts at fascist control of what other people read, is A) by HS, most kids have already seen ACTUAL porn or near porn and know WAY more than you think they do. It's adorable some of you think otherwise. So, you've already failed.
B) Almost every HS kid has a computer and/or phone. So, I cannot take your outrage seriously, when your kid has access to the "dark" sites, porn, and more on a daily basis. So, worry about yourself and what you can control. But it will never be me and my kid.

Any school board member who is remotely in favor of catering to fascists, and banning books, undercutting the expertise of librarians, will not only not have my vote. But I will work to make sure they never see the light of a Board Member's office.

Wow - you sound super angry and frankly, kinda insane.

Besides hurling childish insults like “facists!!” are you also the ridiculous person who simply screeches “lies!!” constantly throughout this thread? You sound extremely immature.

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I want to vote for candidates who are willing to restrain schools from sabotaging the trust and relationship between children and parents.

https://www.newsweek.com/school-apologizes-display-showing-books-adults-dont-want-you-read-1679670

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Anonymous wrote:I want to vote for candidates who are willing to restrain schools from sabotaging the trust and relationship between children and parents.

https://www.newsweek.com/school-apologizes-display-showing-books-adults-dont-want-you-read-1679670

It has become very creepy what some educators are doing. The very people we need to trust with our children are actively undermining the parents. I think a great divide has opened between the people going into the education field (including
librarians) and parents. Why do they so badly want to push these things on children? Why not stick to reading, writing, and arithmetic? Why the need for an idealogical push? I can only think of creepy reasons - particularly when they want to keep it from parents.

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The posters on here are not doing the R candidates any favors with moderates.

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Anonymous wrote:The posters on here are not doing the R candidates any favors with moderates.

So the people who don't want depictions of simulated fellatio are the problem? I think you have this backwards. I think most moderates would lean towards the conservative side on this. Let the parents who want their children to see this material seek it out, not provide it in school libraries.

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Anonymous wrote:The posters on here are not doing the R candidates any favors with moderates.

I don't really think dcum moves the needle much either way. I am a D turned I recently, and this thread also isn't bringing me back to the Ds either. I'm moderate and can't be a part of either party right now. Neither are moderate IMO.

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Anonymous wrote:The posters on here are not doing the D candidates any favors with moderates.

FIFY. And I refer you to 13:38.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not give a flying rat's a$$ what you as an individual think is "porn." And FTR, no I do not consider the books here discussed "porn." But it doesn't matter what I think, either, as it concerns your kids.

You decided for YOUR kid. I will decide for mine. You have zero right to restrict my kid's access to the full range of publications in a library. You want to "forbid" your own kids, have at it. If you want to have a "consent form" for you to opt your kid out of having access to it or checking it out, knock yourself out. But make no mistake, you are a fascist a--hole if you are trying to dictate that for other people.

The thing I find funny, aside from the attempts at fascist control of what other people read, is A) by HS, most kids have already seen ACTUAL porn or near porn and know WAY more than you think they do. It's adorable some of you think otherwise. So, you've already failed.
B) Almost every HS kid has a computer and/or phone. So, I cannot take your outrage seriously, when your kid has access to the "dark" sites, porn, and more on a daily basis. So, worry about yourself and what you can control. But it will never be me and my kid.

Any school board member who is remotely in favor of catering to fascists, and banning books, undercutting the expertise of librarians, will not only not have my vote. But I will work to make sure they never see the light of a Board Member's office.

You’re nuts.

Reasonable people can believe in the notion of “community standards” when it comes to books in school libraries without being fascist.

You put on a big show of bring a libertarian when it comes to library books but you’re no doubt highly extremely censorial when it comes to other forms of speech you consider inappropriate. The bottom line is your ilk throws a total fit whenever they don’t get their way because you’re so used to having total control over the public schools. Time for that to change.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not give a flying rat's a$$ what you as an individual think is "porn." And FTR, no I do not consider the books here discussed "porn." But it doesn't matter what I think, either, as it concerns your kids.

You decided for YOUR kid. I will decide for mine. You have zero right to restrict my kid's access to the full range of publications in a library. You want to "forbid" your own kids, have at it. If you want to have a "consent form" for you to opt your kid out of having access to it or checking it out, knock yourself out. But make no mistake, you are a fascist a--hole if you are trying to dictate that for other people.

The thing I find funny, aside from the attempts at fascist control of what other people read, is A) by HS, most kids have already seen ACTUAL porn or near porn and know WAY more than you think they do. It's adorable some of you think otherwise. So, you've already failed.
B) Almost every HS kid has a computer and/or phone. So, I cannot take your outrage seriously, when your kid has access to the "dark" sites, porn, and more on a daily basis. So, worry about yourself and what you can control. But it will never be me and my kid.

Any school board member who is remotely in favor of catering to fascists, and banning books, undercutting the expertise of librarians, will not only not have my vote. But I will work to make sure they never see the light of a Board Member's office.

You’re nuts.

Reasonable people can believe in the notion of “community standards” when it comes to books in school libraries without being fascist.

You put on a big show of bring a libertarian when it comes to library books but you’re no doubt highly extremely censorial when it comes to other forms of speech you consider inappropriate. The bottom line is your ilk throws a total fit whenever they don’t get their way because you’re so used to having total control over the public schools. Time for that to change.

+100
Can you imagine the tantrum that PP would throw if the book "Irreparable Damage" was available in school libraries?

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Anonymous wrote:The posters on here are not doing the R candidates any favors with moderates.

So the people who don't want depictions of simulated fellatio are the problem? I think you have this backwards. I think most moderates would lean towards the conservative side on this. Let the parents who want their children to see this material seek it out, not provide it in school libraries.

The posters who are lying are the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:The posters on here are not doing the R candidates any favors with moderates.

So the people who don't want depictions of simulated fellatio are the problem? I think you have this backwards. I think most moderates would lean towards the conservative side on this. Let the parents who want their children to see this material seek it out, not provide it in school libraries.

The posters who are lying are the problem.

A photo of a book is a fact not a lie.

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Anonymous wrote:The posters on here are not doing the R candidates any favors with moderates.

I’m left, and I feel this thread is not helping the dems.

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Anonymous wrote:The posters on here are not doing the R candidates any favors with moderates.

Yelling facists and slurs towards adult parents presenting factual information is not representing the left very well.