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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]please keep loudly defending this.

As an independent I normally don't care who's in power based on D or R, but you Democrats have been particularly obnoxious lately and I would actually crook a smile about an election if you lose next time.

Of course, a show of competence and prioritizing children would actually make me happy but there's no hope of that so....[/quote]

A show of competence and prioritizing children would have required the speaker to behave like an adult, READ the books in question in their entirety, and then file a book challenge following the established channels.

Instead, she took content that would have reached, at most, a few dozen teenagers all year and broadcast it to thousands of people including young children.  She did it this way precisely because it achieved her goal…stoking the fires of outrage - without any actual merit to a claim that the books are inappropriate.  After all, that would require actually reading both do them in their entirety and defending the false claims that they are salacious or pornographic.  She knows there is no merit to her claims but also knows she can score lots of points reading out of context excepts and deliberately mischaracterizing them.

There is real damage and real harm done in what she did.  No one is required to read these books.  But she required every watcher, including children, to be exposed to that content.  Worse, she has unleashed a firestorm of hate and attacks, both toward their author and toward SB members, based in the lie that the books have anything to do with the pedophilia and the lie that the books are pornography.

Anyone rational who claimed that removing the names of Confederates from FCPS schools was a distraction but now think that it’s okay for the entire work of the school board, FCPS communications, dozens of school librarians, and people in instructional services to be focused on this issue based on two out of context excerpts in 2 books in a dozen libraries in this huge system….well, there is something seriously wrong with you.

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