Empathy based on the pyramid of oppression. |
Dumb things happen when you write dumb laws. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-school-district-pulls-1600-books-review-possibly-banned-dictio-rcna133436?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=65a03ab71f42680001d712b1&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter |
I love that the fascists really think they can get a magical world in which they can poop all over everyone else but that they themselves will be safe from being pooped on. That’s not how it works, fellas. That’s why fascism never works out in the end: no one is ever safe. |
Also I’m wondering what skeletons are in her closet given that she’s so excited to talk about what she calls “graphic sexual content.” I’m still waiting for one of these fascist prigs to explain the sexual content in books like Harriet Before She Was Harriet and Neither, and for them to explain why so many books about Black history, women’s history and Judaism were yanked. |
“In Viera, FL, the first Brevard County School Board meeting of the new year considered whether two bestselling novels – “The Kite Runner” and “Slaughterhouse-Five” – should be banned from schools.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/03/us/moms-for-liberty-scandal-opposition/index.html |
It’S nOt A bAn. Moms of Liberty is still trying to make this happen after their perverted leadership was exposed? Yikes. |
Interesting article in the Times about censorship at a public library.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/politics/libraries-book-bans.html |
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Lots of liberal book banners, as this author can attest:
So-called progressive activists discovered they had power through social media, and they wielded it, assailing book after book with charges of offensiveness and demands for cancellation. Children’s publishers now live in fear of these activists, terrified of showing up on their radar with a book or author that could be deemed “problematic”—meaning out of alignment with the activists’ puritanical code. According to that code, an author’s identity must match a book’s subject matter. Further, certain books can harm children, the activists believe, and books they deem harmful must be removed. If that sounds eerily similar to the right-wing activists’ mission, it’s because it is. The only difference is that while right-wing activists merely want certain books removed from particular schools, left-wing activists want the books they target annihilated. https://www.wsj.com/articles/cancel-culture-dominates-childrens-literature-identity-politics-books-533a13cd?st=jqmsfbd0wjaf78e&reflink=article_copyURL_share |