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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I think you typify a basic issue with Republican “thought.” This is fascism, and it’s precisely the same kind of thought that led the Nazis to purge their museums of art that they didn’t feel upheld Nazi ideals. This week it’s books with “sexually explicit” content, next week who knows why they’ll purge a book. [b][… when you dock a pp for brevity, you use the period of ellipses in brackets to indicate you’ve removed content. If you had more than a passing familiarity with reading, you’d know that][/b][/quote]

So, parents who do not want hypersexual content in school libraries are Nazis? [b]I think the people trying to get rid of these books definitely share the same fascist dna, yes. [/b]
Many high school libraries also share resources with middle school level kids.  [b]Lol, no they don’t. You made that up to bolster a whisper-thin argument[/b]. So, these books are available to 12 year olds. [b]At the public library, yes. Are you gunning for those copies next? [/b]

While many, many high school students are sexually active, there are also many who are not.  Why push this type of book? [b]Having a book available is “pushing” it? [/b]Who does it help?  [b]It’s literature, so people willing to read the book and engage with it. I.e., not you and your ilk. [/b]It seems that we are trying to make those kids who are not sexually active feel like the outsiders. [b]Boy that’s a r-e-a-c-h. I never once felt like an outsider when I read sexually explicit books as a child. They were around even back then in the 1980s and 1990s; I loved being secretive and reading romance novels - the same ones you probably read. I never felt like “an outsider.” Just like I never felt like “an outsider” when I read about other cultures and other experiences I hadn’t had (and in most cases, never would). I’ve read books about murder and mountain climbing; I don’t feel like an outsider for not having done those things.[/b]

There is plenty of dark information available outside of school.  Why push it in school? [b]It’s not being “pushed.” MAGA really has trouble with words and their definitions. [/b] How about more about resilience? [b]Oh, like the resilience to read a book that your mommy and daddy think is too grown up for 17 year old you? You understand that your mollycoddling position is the opposite of building resistance, do you not?[/b]

This is not about censorship in general. [b]It 100% is about censorship.[/b] This is about books for minors.  [b]Teenaged minors, you know, those same ones we hand the car keys, the ones who are supposed to be working on their inner lives and who we credit with a modicum of maturity? [/b]No one is "banning" books from being published or sold.  [b]You absolutely are trying to ban books. No one thinks you fascists will be content to stop with just “sexually explicit” books in school libraries. You oppose critical thinking, expertise and learning in general. Or maybe you’ve treated your multiple covid infections with the old bleach and lightbulbs treatment. [/b]
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