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Yep. But you don't want to let them do that. You want to substitute your judgment for theirs. |
So? Everybody’s got a boss. Waiving around your credentials buys you some deference, not the right to act with impunity. Once you start working with taxpayer dollars, and kids on top of that, everyone answers to somebody. Lots of districts, including FFX and Loudon, actually had a process where a controversial book could be brought before a review committee to see if it’s appropriate for school libraries. Been around for years. Nobody called the FCPS school board a bunch of book-burning fascists when they put that together. |
You want to make the decisions? Go to library school, get a degree, then get a job as a librarian. |
Boom. We don’t need hateful religious extremists and homophobes picking books. |
Let me remind you that we're not talking about a general public library. We're talking about school libraries where standards are, and should be, different. And if you have to ask, well, let's just say I hope you're not a parent. If you are, I feel for your kids. |
NP and I agree that a book with a title like that should not be there. |
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The reality is that there is a certain class of people who are extremely motivated to normalize children consuming sexually explicit content. Especially here on anonymous moms websites. We all know why that it is.
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And no one is stopping you from reading genderqueer to your children. I noticed that you failed to explain why you are fighting so hard to have schools provide sexual content to other people’s kids. Why is that? |
Why are you afraid of the possibility that your child might go to their school library and read these books? |
Why would I read Gender Queer to my children? My children can read it for themselves, if they want to. Or not, if they don't. Why are you afraid of your children having access to the book Gender Queer in their school library? |
Just from the TITLE of the book?
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Oh sure. Because a booked called "Gender Queer" is going to be a cute, innocent story about bears or doggies. Don't be dense, PP. |
Ah. Well, then your problem isn't with the book "Gender Queer", it's with people who are gender queer. Maybe you think that, if you ban the books, you will also be able to ban the people. |
+1 I was SO glad he showed those books and I'm laughing at those who are now clutching their pearls that they were "made" to see those images. Good. Children were seeing those images in school libraries yet somehow that wasn't shocking or unacceptable to the same people. Utter and complete hypocrites. |
DP. So you clearly haven't bothered to watch the video that was put out with actual pictures from these books, found in school libraries. |