Seriously with the book banning ?

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Anonymous wrote: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.”

Death threats from fascists, probably.

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Anonymous wrote: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.”

Death threats from fascists, probably.

Oh my god. I really hope that isn’t the reason. I love the festival.

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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.

Not only that, instead of through great literature, they’re going to get exposed to sex and sexuality online, through pronography and chat rooms. They won’t be ill-prepared, they’ll be maladaptive.

[Anonymous]

Now, the crazed right-wingers are going after books in public libraries:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/25/library-books-bans-lgbtq-virginia/

So, guess it's not just about restricting books in schools. It's literally banning books that the right-wing does not agree with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now, the crazed right-wingers are going after books in public libraries:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/25/library-books-bans-lgbtq-virginia/

So, guess it's not just about restricting books in schools. It's literally banning books that the right-wing does not agree with.

And this is why we’ve been calling the GOP fascists.

This thread is awfully quiet in regards to the mouthy and uninformed RWNJs. They’re obsessing over Hunter and AOC.

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Not sure what happened to this tweet, but the Houston Independent School District is getting rid of libraries and turning them into discipline centers.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone on dcum know someone personally impacted by all of this crazy book banning?

I’d like to hear from someone who supports these bans to share a story of someone they know who was personally harmed by one of the books banned.

Interesting that no one could give specific example of this.

Why does someone have to be “personally harmed” for it to be wrong? Would you like *your* young children exposed to, say, a religion you don’t practice or political opinions you don’t agree with - while in school?? You’d be the first to be outraged about that. Such hypocrisy. Read all the sexual books you want with your kids. Leave mine out of it.

We’re talking about high school. Do you think high schoolers have to be sheltered fromm”sexual content” in the form of a comic book?

I have no problem with my teenagers reading this book.

I have no problem with children learning about different religions at any age. What a weird fear.

NP. Yes, I want my high schooler to be sheltered from sexual content. That's a parenting decision. You can make a different parenting decision. We can both have what we want by not placing highly sexual content in schools.

Do I also get to take things out of schools I find objectionable? I find the pledge of allegiance objectionable on several levels. Can I have it removed so that not just my but all kids are not exposed to it? Do you agree that’s my right as a parent?

The Pledge of Allegiance? Why is that objectionable to you?

Because it’s indoctrination. On a superficial level I don’t believe kids should feel pressure to mention god in schools. And I think mindless chants like this are at best silly and at worst too like the indoctrination that took place in authoritarian regimes of the 20th century, both fascist and communist.

Also do you not know any Jehovah’s Witnesses? If your school had a number of families of that faith you ok with them petitioning to get rid of the pledge?

DP. So you consider the Pledge of Allegiance “mindless indoctrination,” but you’re a-ok with books that depict graphic sex acts in our public school libraries. And you wonder why no one takes you seriously.

No one is making kids read those books and they are certainly not reading them aloud in the classroom on a daily basis.
Are you that bad at arguing your point? Apparently so.

We have so many kids in this country who are unsupervised and accessing all kinds of violent and sexually explicit materials in their homes. Public schools do not need to be making such materials easily available.

We have so many unsupervised kids in this country accessing guns in their homes. But you are in favor banning or even limiting those are you?

[Anonymous]

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Not sure what happened to this tweet, but the Houston Independent School District is getting rid of libraries and turning them into discipline centers.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/

J. F. C.

Republicans took over the Houston school system due to what they said was “systemic” problems and this is what they do? Close libraries? I’m sure that will help. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-03-15/republican-leaders-in-texas-announce-takeover-of-schools-in-houston-a-democratic-led-city

[Anonymous]

This thread is really disturbing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now, the crazed right-wingers are going after books in public libraries:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/25/library-books-bans-lgbtq-virginia/

So, guess it's not just about restricting books in schools. It's literally banning books that the right-wing does not agree with.

Any librarian could tell you the right wingers have been doing this for years, decades even. They've just doubled down recently, I guess to prove they are fascists?

Most of the right wing would prefer there were no libraries at all, see the current situation in Houston where they are getting rid of school librarians and turning the libraries into "discipline centers."

[Anonymous]

Why would anyone be opposed to getting porn and books with questionable sexual content out of schools?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is really disturbing.

Agreed, it's dystopian.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone be opposed to getting porn and books with questionable sexual content out of schools?

Because it’s not porn or questionable.
I’m a school librarian. There’s a difference.

[Anonymous]

Only a librarian would claim that materials which are being questioned are not “questionable.”