Seriously with the book banning ?

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously with the book banning.

Yep, at a city library this time.

Tell us again, republicans, how you have nothing in common with the Nazis. Nothing at all. You’re certainly not fascist at all. Not a bit.

Harry Potter books. Are you kidding me? The left wants to burn them because the author dared suggest women are different from trans men who decide they are women.

The only cases I’ve seen about attempts to ban Harry Potter books involve conservative Christians upset about magic and witches, the same sort who want to ban Halloween.

For reference - a list of some cases. https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/harry-potter-series/

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously with the book banning.

Yep, at a city library this time.

Tell us again, republicans, how you have nothing in common with the Nazis. Nothing at all. You’re certainly not fascist at all. Not a bit.

Harry Potter books. Are you kidding me? The left wants to burn them because the author dared suggest women are different from trans men who decide they are women.

The only cases I’ve seen about attempts to ban Harry Potter books involve conservative Christians upset about magic and witches, the same sort who want to ban Halloween.

For reference - a list of some cases. https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/harry-potter-series/

And here: the most challenged book of the 21st century. Because of the wizardy/witchcraft. https://www.toledolibrary.org/blog/harry-potter-the-most-challenged-book-of-the-21st-century

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is what my spouse shared with me, but please get the full story before you comment. I do know one of these books available to 13 year olds shows an explicit drawing of someone giving a blow job. I’m no prude and I think we should exercise extreme caution censoring books, but I don’t want my kid reading that. And no, my kid also doesn’t have unfettered access to the internet.

+1 I don’t support censorship of anything but restricting age inappropriate books is not only acceptable but sensible. But some of the radical fringe insist 9 years should be exposed to graphic imagery.

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Parents interested in exposing their children to the abuse and rape of women, as well as other graphic depictions of sex, are welcome to check those books out in a public library to share with their kids. They do not have any place in a public school. Period.

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Four people who are happily greasing the skids on a slippery slope to fascism.

With all the classic literature and modern day books available, why should any school proactively lift up arguably inappropriate books for some age levels?

Can we agree that such books don’t belong in a K-5 school or middle schools? Can we use movie ratings as a guide?

When it comes to high school, I’m fine with all books being accessible. I’m not fine with certain books being required reading.

Honestly, I think some of the books have an unintended negative effect. Instead of fostering understanding and empathy, I worry that some actually promote harmful stereotypes. I don’t hear anyone evaluating impact, but perhaps someone should? I’ve heard some kids say as much when discussing required reading in mcps.

There are always going to be gaps in intelligence. Some will get the higher level meaning but most won’t. Still what’s the harm in trying to educate the masses? You never know when some poor schmo from the wrong side of the tracks might actually possess the intellectual capacity to upon exposure to lit have a lightbulb moment that changes the course of his/her life’s trajectory. This is why I love books and education. Given the right mix it really is the great equalizer.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM favorite Bethany Mandel getting in on the book banning act:

So because she and her right wing friends don't want their kids to see a book with a transgender character those books can't be in the library at all?

Well, now that you bring it up, she’d probably be happier if she didn’t have to worry about her children being exposed to the LGBTQ community on TV or other forms of media also.

I agree that we don’t need transgender transformations being taught or presented to children. I support trans rights. I do not support your politicizing my child’s gender identity or normalizing actions that cannot be undone. I predict that in a few years we will see children suing parents for allowing / forcing them to get gender reassigned.

Completely agree. It’s getting absurd. My young kid doesn’t need to be reading about some asexual kid as summer reading.

The left sounds unhinged here. You are not going to win arguing that every book ever is appropriate for young kids with the vast majority of Americans, no matter how much you screech about burning books.

We are way beyond assigned classroom reading for children. People are shutting down city libraries.

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If there were a Gofundme for this teacher, I'd donate:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/25/oklahoma-teacher-resigns/

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM favorite Bethany Mandel getting in on the book banning act:

So because she and her right wing friends don't want their kids to see a book with a transgender character those books can't be in the library at all?

Well, now that you bring it up, she’d probably be happier if she didn’t have to worry about her children being exposed to the LGBTQ community on TV or other forms of media also.

I agree that we don’t need transgender transformations being taught or presented to children. I support trans rights. I do not support your politicizing my child’s gender identity or normalizing actions that cannot be undone. I predict that in a few years we will see children suing parents for allowing / forcing them to get gender reassigned.

Completely agree. It’s getting absurd. My young kid doesn’t need to be reading about some asexual kid as summer reading.

The left sounds unhinged here. You are not going to win arguing that every book ever is appropriate for young kids with the vast majority of Americans, no matter how much you screech about burning books.

We are way beyond assigned classroom reading for children. People are shutting down city libraries.

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I know it’s trendy among Republicans who want to pretend they’re just normal Americans to ignore the growing fascism in the GOP, but this is another example of it.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM favorite Bethany Mandel getting in on the book banning act:

So because she and her right wing friends don't want their kids to see a book with a transgender character those books can't be in the library at all?

Well, now that you bring it up, she’d probably be happier if she didn’t have to worry about her children being exposed to the LGBTQ community on TV or other forms of media also.

I agree that we don’t need transgender transformations being taught or presented to children. I support trans rights. I do not support your politicizing my child’s gender identity or normalizing actions that cannot be undone. I predict that in a few years we will see children suing parents for allowing / forcing them to get gender reassigned.

Completely agree. It’s getting absurd. My young kid doesn’t need to be reading about some asexual kid as summer reading.
The left sounds unhinged here. You are not going to win arguing that every book ever is appropriate for young kids with the vast majority of Americans, no matter how much you screech about burning books.

We are way beyond assigned classroom reading for children. People are shutting down city libraries.

As a parent all I see is reading of an extremely leftist ideology being pushed on young children. I haven’t seen any shutting down of libraries. Maybe if the left would focus less on pushing elementary school kids to read about sex and sexual identity, they would have more moderates support them.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM favorite Bethany Mandel getting in on the book banning act:

So because she and her right wing friends don't want their kids to see a book with a transgender character those books can't be in the library at all?

Well, now that you bring it up, she’d probably be happier if she didn’t have to worry about her children being exposed to the LGBTQ community on TV or other forms of media also.

I agree that we don’t need transgender transformations being taught or presented to children. I support trans rights. I do not support your politicizing my child’s gender identity or normalizing actions that cannot be undone. I predict that in a few years we will see children suing parents for allowing / forcing them to get gender reassigned.

Completely agree. It’s getting absurd. My young kid doesn’t need to be reading about some asexual kid as summer reading.
The left sounds unhinged here. You are not going to win arguing that every book ever is appropriate for young kids with the vast majority of Americans, no matter how much you screech about burning books.

We are way beyond assigned classroom reading for children. People are shutting down city libraries.

As a parent all I see is reading of an extremely leftist ideology being pushed on young children. I haven’t seen any shutting down of libraries. Maybe if the left would focus less on pushing elementary school kids to read about sex and sexual identity, they would have more moderates support them.

As a thinking person and a parent, all I read in your post is someone indoctrinated by right wing propaganda. All that you claim not to have seen has been linked to in this short 19 page thread. You aren’t seeing because you aren’t looking and you’re seeing boogeyman because that’s all the cortisol-flooding fear factory propaganda you read and watch shows you.

Garbage in, garbage out.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM favorite Bethany Mandel getting in on the book banning act:

So because she and her right wing friends don't want their kids to see a book with a transgender character those books can't be in the library at all?

Well, now that you bring it up, she’d probably be happier if she didn’t have to worry about her children being exposed to the LGBTQ community on TV or other forms of media also.

I agree that we don’t need transgender transformations being taught or presented to children. I support trans rights. I do not support your politicizing my child’s gender identity or normalizing actions that cannot be undone. I predict that in a few years we will see children suing parents for allowing / forcing them to get gender reassigned.

Completely agree. It’s getting absurd. My young kid doesn’t need to be reading about some asexual kid as summer reading.
The left sounds unhinged here. You are not going to win arguing that every book ever is appropriate for young kids with the vast majority of Americans, no matter how much you screech about burning books.

We are way beyond assigned classroom reading for children. People are shutting down city libraries.

As a parent all I see is reading of an extremely leftist ideology being pushed on young children. I haven’t seen any shutting down of libraries. Maybe if the left would focus less on pushing elementary school kids to read about sex and sexual identity, they would have more moderates support them.

Maybe you're functionally illiterate, or maybe you're ignoring the stories posted about the literal shutting down of libraries. Either way, you're spreading lies by suggesting that libraries aren't being closed.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM favorite Bethany Mandel getting in on the book banning act:

So because she and her right wing friends don't want their kids to see a book with a transgender character those books can't be in the library at all?

Well, now that you bring it up, she’d probably be happier if she didn’t have to worry about her children being exposed to the LGBTQ community on TV or other forms of media also.

I agree that we don’t need transgender transformations being taught or presented to children. I support trans rights. I do not support your politicizing my child’s gender identity or normalizing actions that cannot be undone. I predict that in a few years we will see children suing parents for allowing / forcing them to get gender reassigned.

Completely agree. It’s getting absurd. My young kid doesn’t need to be reading about some asexual kid as summer reading.
The left sounds unhinged here. You are not going to win arguing that every book ever is appropriate for young kids with the vast majority of Americans, no matter how much you screech about burning books.

We are way beyond assigned classroom reading for children. People are shutting down city libraries.

As a parent all I see is reading of an extremely leftist ideology being pushed on young children. I haven’t seen any shutting down of libraries. Maybe if the left would focus less on pushing elementary school kids to read about sex and sexual identity, they would have more moderates support them.

Maybe you should read the thread you’re posting in and the links in it.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM favorite Bethany Mandel getting in on the book banning act:

So because she and her right wing friends don't want their kids to see a book with a transgender character those books can't be in the library at all?

Well, now that you bring it up, she’d probably be happier if she didn’t have to worry about her children being exposed to the LGBTQ community on TV or other forms of media also.

I agree that we don’t need transgender transformations being taught or presented to children. I support trans rights. I do not support your politicizing my child’s gender identity or normalizing actions that cannot be undone. I predict that in a few years we will see children suing parents for allowing / forcing them to get gender reassigned.

Completely agree. It’s getting absurd. My young kid doesn’t need to be reading about some asexual kid as summer reading.
The left sounds unhinged here. You are not going to win arguing that every book ever is appropriate for young kids with the vast majority of Americans, no matter how much you screech about burning books.

We are way beyond assigned classroom reading for children. People are shutting down city libraries.

As a parent all I see is reading of an extremely leftist ideology being pushed on young children. I haven’t seen any shutting down of libraries. Maybe if the left would focus less on pushing elementary school kids to read about sex and sexual identity, they would have more moderates support them.

Unbeliveable how igorant you are. Let me guess, Loudon County?

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM favorite Bethany Mandel getting in on the book banning act:

So because she and her right wing friends don't want their kids to see a book with a transgender character those books can't be in the library at all?

Well, now that you bring it up, she’d probably be happier if she didn’t have to worry about her children being exposed to the LGBTQ community on TV or other forms of media also.

I agree that we don’t need transgender transformations being taught or presented to children. I support trans rights. I do not support your politicizing my child’s gender identity or normalizing actions that cannot be undone. I predict that in a few years we will see children suing parents for allowing / forcing them to get gender reassigned.

Completely agree. It’s getting absurd. My young kid doesn’t need to be reading about some asexual kid as summer reading.
The left sounds unhinged here. You are not going to win arguing that every book ever is appropriate for young kids with the vast majority of Americans, no matter how much you screech about burning books.

We are way beyond assigned classroom reading for children. People are shutting down city libraries.

As a parent all I see is reading of an extremely leftist ideology being pushed on young children. I haven’t seen any shutting down of libraries. Maybe if the left would focus less on pushing elementary school kids to read about sex and sexual identity, they would have more moderates support them.

As a parent all I see is a conservative ideology pushed on my kids. I don’t want my kids told about Jesus and god. They don’t need to be brainwashed into hating others in the name of Jesus. I see the conservative ideology dumbing schools down. Conservatives are anti-intellectual and wallow in stupidity.

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Conservatives have been advertising their stupidity and incuriosity since forever.