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Anonymous wrote:The NYT writes an entire article about schools all over the country having this book in their libraries, but the troll keeps on trolling. Too funny.
Don't subscribe to the NYT, it's paywalled. And even so it's probably still anecdotal. Do better. Show some actual data showing how many schools ordered that book for their students. I only trust data, not your "feelings" or your factless anecdotes.
Until you show some actual data all you have are factless claims.
PP, I (not a book banner) posted the entire NYT article upthread. You can read it there. Nobody paid any attention to the book until the so-called Moms for Liberty somehow came across it and decided that 2 or 3 out-of-context drawings would be the very thing to further their campaign against LGBTQ people and public schools.
"Moms for Liberty" somehow "found" the book. What are the chances of far right wing activists just happening to stumble upon that particular book in some random school library. I'd give it 1:1,000,000 odds. Higher odds if one of them brought it in their purse to plant it before "finding" it. Hate to be cynical but the far right "anti-woke" is so far off the rails these days I wouldn't put anything past them.
So I guess you're (deliberately) ignoring this part:
The award brought “Gender Queer” to the attention of librarians across the country, who often look to such prizes when deciding what books to order. High schools and some middle school libraries around the country began stocking it.
The book was banned in dozens of school districts and removed from libraries across the country, including Alaska, Iowa, Texas and Pennsylvania.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/books/maia-kobabe-gender-queer-book-ban.html
No worries. We're all used to you lying through your teeth in order to discredit reality.
So, it's an award-winning book, which many school librarians chose to add to their school's library, but you find one or two drawings in this book, completely out of context, to be indefensibly shocking, and therefore it should be unavailable in any school library (or maybe any library at all).
You're not going to stop with this book, and you're not going to stop with books. Everyone knows that. In fact, some of the people advocating for banning books on LGBTQ topics have already moved on to advocating for banning the existence of LGBTQ people.
And so far, with all this supposed attention, only ONE copy found in all of New York State, which nobody ever even checked out, plus (maybe) another one found at some unspecified location in Iowa, though that article was pretty dodgy and completely lacked any specifics whatsoever, just a handful of photos of what looked like an unused copy of the book.
Whatever dude. I remain profoundly underwhelmed and do not find the hysteria compelling.
No one cares what you find "compelling." And do keep ignoring the facts that have been posted repeatedly. Troll harder.
The award brought “Gender Queer” to the attention of librarians across the country, who often look to such prizes when deciding what books to order. High schools and some middle school libraries around the country began stocking it.
The book was banned in dozens of school districts and removed from libraries across the country, including Alaska, Iowa, Texas and Pennsylvania.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/books/maia-kobabe-gender-queer-book-ban.html
Returning to this. So far, the only "FACTS" I've actually seen anywhere here are:
a.) Some photos of pages from the book. No real evidence given about
where the photos were taken. For all I know it might not even have been in a school library. And, the book looked pristine and untouched apart from whoever taking the pictures opening it to take the pictures, as opposed to looking like a typical library book in circulation being mauled by kids
b.) Info about ONE copy of the book, found in ONE school library, and it had never been checked out
c.) Some handwavey, completely nonspecific information about it being removed elsewhere
d.) Info that it's been banned in various locations, whether or not they actually ever even had it in the first place
That's the "facts" presented so far, whether you like my laying out of them as such or not.
Note, that I am
not saying the book does not exist,
nor am I saying it's never been in a school library,
nor am I saying kids should be reading this book and I
never have said any of those things, despite all of the flailing deflections and accusations you all keep making, along with your repeated confusing of one poster for another and your confused responses to various forms of trolling going on in this thread.
I'm just questioning the (in my opinion) grossly overblown hyperbole surrounding the info here. There are nearly 129,000 k-12 schools in the US, a huge percentage of which have libraries of some form. For all I know, one might only be able to count on one's fingers how many copies of the book existed in those 129,000 schools. And for all I care, fine, fine, take that tiny handful of books out of schools. Or don't.
I'm saying you have a
huge gap between a handful of schools with bad judgement versus a "VaST LgBTq AgENdA AtTaCkiNG OuR ScHOoLs" on this one.
And meanwhile I still think it's a much greater and higher priority that we need to focus on things like protecting our kids from things like, you know, ACTUALLY GETTING SHOT TO DEATH IN MASS SHOOTINGS and until that's solved, there's absolutely no way in heaven or hell that you're ever going to convince me that your cause and crusade is somehow more important than mine. Your priorities are DEFINITELY out of kilter.