Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not only Florida.

And it's coming to all red states

VA just added itself to the list of the dumbing down of its schools. Youngkin will do this asap.

The religious right is taking hold and god help us all particularly women.

Punching women- books describing punching women in the face, locking them in the closet: those need to be in the school library, right PP? Those are the books?

It oppresses women if we don’t give our kids access to graphic descriptions of violence against women: that is what you are saying, isn’t it PP?

Does it celebrate that violence in the same way so many war books do?

How about the violence portrayed in music videos or song lyrics? Far more troubling than books.

Couldn’t care less what my kids read as long as they read.

Anonymous wrote:Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men, and To Kill a Mockingbird are racist works by cis-gender dead white males.

Why not ban them?

Ah, the ignorance.

Harper Lee was a lady writer. No clue what her preferred pronouns were. Doesn’t really matter anyway, right?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not only Florida.

And it's coming to all red states

VA just added itself to the list of the dumbing down of its schools. Youngkin will do this asap.

The religious right is taking hold and god help us all particularly women.

Punching women- books describing punching women in the face, locking them in the closet: those need to be in the school library, right PP? Those are the books?

It oppresses women if we don’t give our kids access to graphic descriptions of violence against women: that is what you are saying, isn’t it PP?

Does it celebrate that violence in the same way so many war books do?

Banning a book encourages people to read it.

Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men, and To Kill a Mockingbird are racist works by cis-gender dead white males.

Why not ban them?

Anonymous wrote:I am opposed to book banning.

- except racist / sexist books. There is no place for that sort of literature in our society.

Is To Kill a Mockingbird racist? Some liberals say so. Other liberals name their kids Harper or Atticus.

Who is to say what is racist…and when? Is reading a book written through the lens of it’s time racist or merely centering it in history? Should we forget history? Pretend like it never happened?

SMDH.

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is what my spouse shared with me, but please get the full story before you comment. I do know one of these books available to 13 year olds shows an explicit drawing of someone giving a blow job. I’m no prude and I think we should exercise extreme caution censoring books, but I don’t want my kid reading that. And no, my kid also doesn’t have unfettered access to the internet.

+1 I don’t support censorship of anything but restricting age inappropriate books is not only acceptable but sensible. But some of the radical fringe insist 9 years should be exposed to graphic imagery.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/581134-movement-to-ban-or-even-burn-school-library-books-gains?amp

This recent article from The Hill is balanced: leads with recent conservative efforts but quickly reminds us that liberals led efforts to ban Huck Finn, Of Mice and Men, and To Kill a Mockingbird ffs.

It’s all worrisome regardless of who is leading the fight.

I am opposed to book banning.

- except racist / sexist books. There is no place for that sort of literature in our society.

Not sure if this is what my spouse shared with me, but please get the full story before you comment. I do know one of these books available to 13 year olds shows an explicit drawing of someone giving a blow job. I’m no prude and I think we should exercise extreme caution censoring books, but I don’t want my kid reading that. And no, my kid also doesn’t have unfettered access to the internet.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/09/17/opinions/york-pennsylvania-school-district-book-ban-parini/index.html

Banning books—and free speech in general—is dangerous regardless of which political party is doing it.

The linked article reminds us that liberals do it, too. Think about that as you evaluate where we currently are.

Anonymous wrote:It's not only Florida.

And it's coming to all red states

VA just added itself to the list of the dumbing down of its schools. Youngkin will do this asap.

The religious right is taking hold and god help us all particularly women.

Punching women- books describing punching women in the face, locking them in the closet: those need to be in the school library, right PP? Those are the books?

It oppresses women if we don’t give our kids access to graphic descriptions of violence against women: that is what you are saying, isn’t it PP?

Every child should read this. Why not?

It's not only Florida.

And it's coming to all red states

VA just added itself to the list of the dumbing down of its schools. Youngkin will do this asap.

The religious right is taking hold and god help us all particularly women.

Oh America! I mean it is Florida, but still.
https://www.rawstory.com/banned-books-in-florida/

member of the Flagler County, Florida school board has filed a criminal complaint over four copies of an LGBTQ book recommended for 14 to 18 year olds, claiming it violates the state's obscenity laws.

"My concern is for the children of Flagler County," Jill Woolbright claims, according to the Palm Coast Observer. "This book needs to be investigated as a crime in our media center. This is pretty heavy stuff, violating our own policies.