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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Double and triple down.

These are your Democrats people.[/quote]

The sad thing is these folks think they are being clever with this type of rhetorical jiu jitsu.  Normal people see through it as an obvious attempt to deflect and avoid dealing with the problem. [/quote]

Agreed.  However, our flaw is that in the spirit of sincere thought and rational exchanges, we think/hope these folk will be persuaded.  As evidenced by this thread, they won't.

What we should be doing (as some have), is calling them out for encouraging the moral decline of the system.  Defining deviancy down.[/quote]

Young people explore their sexuality. There is nothing deviant about that.

You have done weird hang-ups. 
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School is not the place to teach that/[/quote]

Books to read in high school are how we take kids and (hopefully) turn them into thoughtful mature adults. Sexuality is part of life and it's definitely part of life for high schoolers, whether they're having it or not. I'm fine with the books in question, though I understand good faith disagreement on that, but I'm really troubled by the broader implication that there can be no sex in high school libraries. The culture is awash in sex and actual pornography, a place where high schoolers can see depictions of adult sexuality that AREN'T Pornhub is really important, now more than ever.[/quote]

I don't think getting rid of smutty books in FCPS libraries means the end of Family Life Education.  These books don't pass the smell test.  I can understand why those who have a knee-jerk reaction to defend everything FCPS does and the all-Democratic School Board that's responsible for the oversight of FCPS might try to move the goal posts here, but it's not going to make those particular books less objectionable.  [/quote]

You'd do well to at least imagine that the people you're arguing with have honest, thoughtful reasons for their beliefs. I'm not a partisan Democrat and I've got no particular feelings about the school board. I'm just a parent, who looked at the books and thinks they're appropriate for high schoolers. This is surely a fault of people on both sides of this question, but the assumption that I must be a knee jerk defender of the school board makes you seem like someone so closed minded that it's pointless to talk to you.[/quote]

We changed school names costing the county $300K-500K a pop because a minority of the people in the various school communities found the names offensive, but you're going to the mat to defend obscene books - the disposal of which would cost nothing - that have graphic depictions of sex acts involving minors and to suggest that the views of those with concerns are ultimately to be disregarded.

I'm sorry, but it gets tiring to deal with this much hypocrisy and this many double-standards.  [/quote]

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