Seriously with the book banning ?

[Anonymous]

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Republicans are so weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The audacious irony of a group that wants to muzzle, censor, restrict and suppress calling themselves "Moms for Liberty" is utterly astounding.

Yup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The audacious irony of a group that wants to muzzle, censor, restrict and suppress calling themselves "Moms for Liberty" is utterly astounding.

Yup.

This is who they are!

[Anonymous]

saying the quiet part out loud

[Anonymous]

Milton. Flaubert. Ralph Ellison. Shakespeare. All put on the possible banned list. (Shakespeare given a limited reprieve.)

Florida strikes again!

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/07/03/orange-schools-target-classics-popular-novels-to-keep-sex-out-of-class/

The classic novels “A Room With a View” and “Madame Bovary” and the epic poem “Paradise Lost” — published in England more than 350 years ago — have been at least temporarily rejected by Orange County Public Schools for sexual content that educators fear runs afoul of a new Florida law.

Novels that in past years were frequently taught in OCPS high school classes, such as “The Color Purple,” “Catch-22,” “Brave New World,” and “The Kite Runner” have been put on the rejected lists, too, as have novels by Toni Morrison and Ayn Rand and popular, turned-into-movies books like “Into the Wild,” and “The Fault in Our Stars.”

The lists of books rejected and approved for OCPS classrooms are not finalized yet as district media specialists continue their summer work of reviewing all books in classroom libraries, said several people familiar with the process.

Some books rejected earlier this summer, among them “The Scarlet Letter” and Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” have since been approved, according to the lists shared with the Orlando Sentinel by a district teacher and by an advocacy group that obtained a rejection list through a public records request. Other books have been approved but only for certain grades.

Four plays by William Shakespeare, including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” are currently listed as approved for grades 10 through 12 only, as is Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the lists show.

For many of the books, the reason for at least a temporary rejection is sex. “Depicts or describes sexual conduct (not allowed per HB 1069-2023,” reads the explanation, referencing a new state law passed by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Milton. Flaubert. Ralph Ellison. Shakespeare. All put on the possible banned list. (Shakespeare given a limited reprieve.)

Florida strikes again!

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/07/03/orange-schools-target-classics-popular-novels-to-keep-sex-out-of-class/

The classic novels “A Room With a View” and “Madame Bovary” and the epic poem “Paradise Lost” — published in England more than 350 years ago — have been at least temporarily rejected by Orange County Public Schools for sexual content that educators fear runs afoul of a new Florida law.

Novels that in past years were frequently taught in OCPS high school classes, such as “The Color Purple,” “Catch-22,” “Brave New World,” and “The Kite Runner” have been put on the rejected lists, too, as have novels by Toni Morrison and Ayn Rand and popular, turned-into-movies books like “Into the Wild,” and “The Fault in Our Stars.”

The lists of books rejected and approved for OCPS classrooms are not finalized yet as district media specialists continue their summer work of reviewing all books in classroom libraries, said several people familiar with the process.

Some books rejected earlier this summer, among them “The Scarlet Letter” and Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” have since been approved, according to the lists shared with the Orlando Sentinel by a district teacher and by an advocacy group that obtained a rejection list through a public records request. Other books have been approved but only for certain grades.

Four plays by William Shakespeare, including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” are currently listed as approved for grades 10 through 12 only, as is Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the lists show.

For many of the books, the reason for at least a temporary rejection is sex. “Depicts or describes sexual conduct (not allowed per HB 1069-2023,” reads the explanation, referencing a new state law passed by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Can anyone imagine how dumb the average Floridian student is going to be when the fascist party is done with them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Milton. Flaubert. Ralph Ellison. Shakespeare. All put on the possible banned list. (Shakespeare given a limited reprieve.)

Florida strikes again!

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/07/03/orange-schools-target-classics-popular-novels-to-keep-sex-out-of-class/

The classic novels “A Room With a View” and “Madame Bovary” and the epic poem “Paradise Lost” — published in England more than 350 years ago — have been at least temporarily rejected by Orange County Public Schools for sexual content that educators fear runs afoul of a new Florida law.

Novels that in past years were frequently taught in OCPS high school classes, such as “The Color Purple,” “Catch-22,” “Brave New World,” and “The Kite Runner” have been put on the rejected lists, too, as have novels by Toni Morrison and Ayn Rand and popular, turned-into-movies books like “Into the Wild,” and “The Fault in Our Stars.”

The lists of books rejected and approved for OCPS classrooms are not finalized yet as district media specialists continue their summer work of reviewing all books in classroom libraries, said several people familiar with the process.

Some books rejected earlier this summer, among them “The Scarlet Letter” and Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” have since been approved, according to the lists shared with the Orlando Sentinel by a district teacher and by an advocacy group that obtained a rejection list through a public records request. Other books have been approved but only for certain grades.

Four plays by William Shakespeare, including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” are currently listed as approved for grades 10 through 12 only, as is Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the lists show.

For many of the books, the reason for at least a temporary rejection is sex. “Depicts or describes sexual conduct (not allowed per HB 1069-2023,” reads the explanation, referencing a new state law passed by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Can anyone imagine how dumb the average Floridian student is going to be when the fascist party is done with them?

^ YES! This is the part I feel like is getting so little attention. These kids are going to come out so ill prepared for college or life in the real world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Milton. Flaubert. Ralph Ellison. Shakespeare. All put on the possible banned list. (Shakespeare given a limited reprieve.)

Florida strikes again!

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/07/03/orange-schools-target-classics-popular-novels-to-keep-sex-out-of-class/

The classic novels “A Room With a View” and “Madame Bovary” and the epic poem “Paradise Lost” — published in England more than 350 years ago — have been at least temporarily rejected by Orange County Public Schools for sexual content that educators fear runs afoul of a new Florida law.

Novels that in past years were frequently taught in OCPS high school classes, such as “The Color Purple,” “Catch-22,” “Brave New World,” and “The Kite Runner” have been put on the rejected lists, too, as have novels by Toni Morrison and Ayn Rand and popular, turned-into-movies books like “Into the Wild,” and “The Fault in Our Stars.”

The lists of books rejected and approved for OCPS classrooms are not finalized yet as district media specialists continue their summer work of reviewing all books in classroom libraries, said several people familiar with the process.

Some books rejected earlier this summer, among them “The Scarlet Letter” and Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” have since been approved, according to the lists shared with the Orlando Sentinel by a district teacher and by an advocacy group that obtained a rejection list through a public records request. Other books have been approved but only for certain grades.

Four plays by William Shakespeare, including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” are currently listed as approved for grades 10 through 12 only, as is Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the lists show.

For many of the books, the reason for at least a temporary rejection is sex. “Depicts or describes sexual conduct (not allowed per HB 1069-2023,” reads the explanation, referencing a new state law passed by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Can anyone imagine how dumb the average Floridian student is going to be when the fascist party is done with them?

^ YES! This is the part I feel like is getting so little attention. These kids are going to come out so ill prepared for college or life in the real world.

That's the way Republicans like them. More manipulable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Milton. Flaubert. Ralph Ellison. Shakespeare. All put on the possible banned list. (Shakespeare given a limited reprieve.)

Florida strikes again!

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/07/03/orange-schools-target-classics-popular-novels-to-keep-sex-out-of-class/

The classic novels “A Room With a View” and “Madame Bovary” and the epic poem “Paradise Lost” — published in England more than 350 years ago — have been at least temporarily rejected by Orange County Public Schools for sexual content that educators fear runs afoul of a new Florida law.

Novels that in past years were frequently taught in OCPS high school classes, such as “The Color Purple,” “Catch-22,” “Brave New World,” and “The Kite Runner” have been put on the rejected lists, too, as have novels by Toni Morrison and Ayn Rand and popular, turned-into-movies books like “Into the Wild,” and “The Fault in Our Stars.”

The lists of books rejected and approved for OCPS classrooms are not finalized yet as district media specialists continue their summer work of reviewing all books in classroom libraries, said several people familiar with the process.

Some books rejected earlier this summer, among them “The Scarlet Letter” and Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” have since been approved, according to the lists shared with the Orlando Sentinel by a district teacher and by an advocacy group that obtained a rejection list through a public records request. Other books have been approved but only for certain grades.

Four plays by William Shakespeare, including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” are currently listed as approved for grades 10 through 12 only, as is Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the lists show.

For many of the books, the reason for at least a temporary rejection is sex. “Depicts or describes sexual conduct (not allowed per HB 1069-2023,” reads the explanation, referencing a new state law passed by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Can anyone imagine how dumb the average Floridian student is going to be when the fascist party is done with them?

^ YES! This is the part I feel like is getting so little attention. These kids are going to come out so ill prepared for college or life in the real world.

That's the way Republicans like them. More manipulable.

I know, and I understand that, but it really bums me out how ignorant Florida students are going to be and for no reason other than fascism (and conservatism; I won’t pretend that this is a totally new problem, but the scope is getting larger). It’s a terrible waste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Milton. Flaubert. Ralph Ellison. Shakespeare. All put on the possible banned list. (Shakespeare given a limited reprieve.)

Florida strikes again!

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/07/03/orange-schools-target-classics-popular-novels-to-keep-sex-out-of-class/

The classic novels “A Room With a View” and “Madame Bovary” and the epic poem “Paradise Lost” — published in England more than 350 years ago — have been at least temporarily rejected by Orange County Public Schools for sexual content that educators fear runs afoul of a new Florida law.

Novels that in past years were frequently taught in OCPS high school classes, such as “The Color Purple,” “Catch-22,” “Brave New World,” and “The Kite Runner” have been put on the rejected lists, too, as have novels by Toni Morrison and Ayn Rand and popular, turned-into-movies books like “Into the Wild,” and “The Fault in Our Stars.”

The lists of books rejected and approved for OCPS classrooms are not finalized yet as district media specialists continue their summer work of reviewing all books in classroom libraries, said several people familiar with the process.

Some books rejected earlier this summer, among them “The Scarlet Letter” and Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” have since been approved, according to the lists shared with the Orlando Sentinel by a district teacher and by an advocacy group that obtained a rejection list through a public records request. Other books have been approved but only for certain grades.

Four plays by William Shakespeare, including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” are currently listed as approved for grades 10 through 12 only, as is Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the lists show.

For many of the books, the reason for at least a temporary rejection is sex. “Depicts or describes sexual conduct (not allowed per HB 1069-2023,” reads the explanation, referencing a new state law passed by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Can anyone imagine how dumb the average Floridian student is going to be when the fascist party is done with them?

^ YES! This is the part I feel like is getting so little attention. These kids are going to come out so ill prepared for college or life in the real world.

That's the way Republicans like them. More manipulable.

I know, and I understand that, but it really bums me out how ignorant Florida students are going to be and for no reason other than fascism (and conservatism; I won’t pretend that this is a totally new problem, but the scope is getting larger). It’s a terrible waste.

Rest assured, wealthy Florida kids will be educated -- that is not who they are trying to keep down and uneducated through this process. They are intentionally creating an uneducated, dependent, and desperate class of low wage workers and voters, while simultaneously raising their own to be Lords above them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Milton. Flaubert. Ralph Ellison. Shakespeare. All put on the possible banned list. (Shakespeare given a limited reprieve.)

Florida strikes again!

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/07/03/orange-schools-target-classics-popular-novels-to-keep-sex-out-of-class/

The classic novels “A Room With a View” and “Madame Bovary” and the epic poem “Paradise Lost” — published in England more than 350 years ago — have been at least temporarily rejected by Orange County Public Schools for sexual content that educators fear runs afoul of a new Florida law.

Novels that in past years were frequently taught in OCPS high school classes, such as “The Color Purple,” “Catch-22,” “Brave New World,” and “The Kite Runner” have been put on the rejected lists, too, as have novels by Toni Morrison and Ayn Rand and popular, turned-into-movies books like “Into the Wild,” and “The Fault in Our Stars.”

The lists of books rejected and approved for OCPS classrooms are not finalized yet as district media specialists continue their summer work of reviewing all books in classroom libraries, said several people familiar with the process.

Some books rejected earlier this summer, among them “The Scarlet Letter” and Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” have since been approved, according to the lists shared with the Orlando Sentinel by a district teacher and by an advocacy group that obtained a rejection list through a public records request. Other books have been approved but only for certain grades.

Four plays by William Shakespeare, including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” are currently listed as approved for grades 10 through 12 only, as is Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the lists show.

For many of the books, the reason for at least a temporary rejection is sex. “Depicts or describes sexual conduct (not allowed per HB 1069-2023,” reads the explanation, referencing a new state law passed by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Can anyone imagine how dumb the average Floridian student is going to be when the fascist party is done with them?

^ YES! This is the part I feel like is getting so little attention. These kids are going to come out so ill prepared for college or life in the real world.

That's the way Republicans like them. More manipulable.

I know, and I understand that, but it really bums me out how ignorant Florida students are going to be and for no reason other than fascism (and conservatism; I won’t pretend that this is a totally new problem, but the scope is getting larger). It’s a terrible waste.

Rest assured, wealthy Florida kids will be educated -- that is not who they are trying to keep down and uneducated through this process. They are intentionally creating an uneducated, dependent, and desperate class of low wage workers and voters, while simultaneously raising their own to be Lords above them.

That’s what I mean. It’s a terrible, terrible waste of all those minds. It’s another one of those subjects in which the total and complete hypocrisy of the forced birther movement (and the Venn diagram of forced birthers and book banners is a circle) is highlighted. Forced birthers always used to whine “what if you’re aborting a future president?!?” In dumbing down huge swathes of a state’s child population, they are preventing the next generation of scientists, great artists, future musicians who would have changed music, future politicians… it is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

[Anonymous]

“So why is it called the Tulsa race massacre?”

“Oh, um, no reason.”

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Milton. Flaubert. Ralph Ellison. Shakespeare. All put on the possible banned list. (Shakespeare given a limited reprieve.)

Florida strikes again!

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/07/03/orange-schools-target-classics-popular-novels-to-keep-sex-out-of-class/

The classic novels “A Room With a View” and “Madame Bovary” and the epic poem “Paradise Lost” — published in England more than 350 years ago — have been at least temporarily rejected by Orange County Public Schools for sexual content that educators fear runs afoul of a new Florida law.

Novels that in past years were frequently taught in OCPS high school classes, such as “The Color Purple,” “Catch-22,” “Brave New World,” and “The Kite Runner” have been put on the rejected lists, too, as have novels by Toni Morrison and Ayn Rand and popular, turned-into-movies books like “Into the Wild,” and “The Fault in Our Stars.”

The lists of books rejected and approved for OCPS classrooms are not finalized yet as district media specialists continue their summer work of reviewing all books in classroom libraries, said several people familiar with the process.

Some books rejected earlier this summer, among them “The Scarlet Letter” and Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” have since been approved, according to the lists shared with the Orlando Sentinel by a district teacher and by an advocacy group that obtained a rejection list through a public records request. Other books have been approved but only for certain grades.

Four plays by William Shakespeare, including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” are currently listed as approved for grades 10 through 12 only, as is Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the lists show.

For many of the books, the reason for at least a temporary rejection is sex. “Depicts or describes sexual conduct (not allowed per HB 1069-2023,” reads the explanation, referencing a new state law passed by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Can anyone imagine how dumb the average Floridian student is going to be when the fascist party is done with them?

^ YES! This is the part I feel like is getting so little attention. These kids are going to come out so ill prepared for college or life in the real world.

That's the way Republicans like them. More manipulable.

I know, and I understand that, but it really bums me out how ignorant Florida students are going to be and for no reason other than fascism (and conservatism; I won’t pretend that this is a totally new problem, but the scope is getting larger). It’s a terrible waste.

Rest assured, wealthy Florida kids will be educated -- that is not who they are trying to keep down and uneducated through this process. They are intentionally creating an uneducated, dependent, and desperate class of low wage workers and voters, while simultaneously raising their own to be Lords above them.

What exactly are you referring to?

[Anonymous]

The bigots are getting their way

Smithsonian literary fest flagged ‘sensitive’ topics before cancellation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/07/22/smithsonian-asian-american-literary-festival-memo/

Less than a month before the Smithsonian’s Asian American Literature Festival was to begin, staffers prepared what they considered to be a routine memo discussing programs involving “potentially sensitive issues” that they knew the host institution would want to be aware of in advance.


Among the matters cited in the memo obtained by The Washington Post: a panel about book bans, and two events featuring queer, trans and nonbinary writers.


Hours later, the acting director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Asian Pacific American Center, Yao-Fen You, informed organizers that she had decided to cancel the entire festival because of “unforeseen circumstances.”