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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t “gender queer” child porn? Why not have the Justice dept. charge bookstores and libraries for having possession of child porn with intent to distribute.

Because that’s not what it is at all.

The GOP is hurtling toward fascism and they seem damn proud of it.

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t “gender queer” child porn? Why not have the Justice dept. charge bookstores and libraries for having possession of child porn with intent to distribute.

Anonymous wrote:I thought these two books (actually I didn't know about the Maas book, I thought it was a different one) had already been found to be obscene and therefore were removed from bookstores.

Anonymous wrote:I thought these two books (actually I didn't know about the Maas book, I thought it was a different one) had already been found to be obscene and therefore were removed from bookstores.

Anonymous wrote:https://slate.com/culture/2022/08/book-banning-republicans-gender-queer-obscenity-supreme-court.html

"At the end of August, in a courtroom in Virginia Beach, a judge will decide whether to put two books on trial for obscenity.

This is a strange sentence to write, and I expect a strange sentence to read, because these days books don’t go on trial for obscenity. "

AND

"Rather than demanding that school boards or librarians remove books, the current case takes the books to court, using an obscure Virginia law that would allow the judge, if she found the books obscene, to ban bookstores, libraries, and even private citizens from selling or sharing them, everywhere in Virginia."

The two books in question are Gender Queer and "A Court of Mist and Fury [which] is a mainstream (straight) fantasy/romance about a human transformed into a faerie, the second in a hugely successful YA series by Sarah J. Maas."

There is no way even the right wing reactionaries on this board can agree with this? Right? How did we get here where we re trying to actually ban books again, for real?

Anderson offered a hypothetical. “Let’s say Moby Dick. Great work of art. But what if they just decided, right in the middle of the story, to put a graphic picture of two men performing fellatio on each other? Or even better, two children just performing fellatio on each other? Wouldn’t we say that, ‘Whoa, like, that is unnecessary in that book and we don’t want children to see that?’ It’s not appropriate for children to see other children performing fellatio on each other.”

Anonymous wrote:To clarify, these are people acting as individuals rather than representing Republicans. I don't support this effort at all. It's stupid.