Anonymous
12/01/2023 00:00
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Do you or do you not want old copies of Penthouse in the school library?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.
Is it?
Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.
The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.
OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP
Okay?
“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.
Your party is fascist.
So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.
Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.
There’s too much stupid here.
Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.
Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.
Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.
Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.
But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!
Which is fine. Why would you deny other parents the right to make the same choice (or a different one)?
+1
Again, that’s not banning. That’s a parent making choices for their child. That’s what parents do.
Why do Republicans struggle so hard with this stuff?
Did you see the news about the threesomes that the Florida Moms for Liberty cofounder is having?
Anonymous
11/30/2023 17:37
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
None that I'm aware of. But do you or do you not want them there?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Do you or do you not want old copies of Penthouse in the school library?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.
Is it?
Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.
The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.
OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP
Okay?
“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.
Your party is fascist.
So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.
Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.
There’s too much stupid here.
Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.
Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.
Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.
Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.
But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!
Which is fine. Why would you deny other parents the right to make the same choice (or a different one)?
+1
Again, that’s not banning. That’s a parent making choices for their child. That’s what parents do.
Why do Republicans struggle so hard with this stuff?
Please list the schools that have Penthouse on their shelves.
Anonymous
11/30/2023 16:35
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Do you or do you not want old copies of Penthouse in the school library?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.
Is it?
Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.
The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.
OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP
Okay?
“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.
Your party is fascist.
So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.
Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.
There’s too much stupid here.
Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.
Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.
Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.
Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.
But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!
Which is fine. Why would you deny other parents the right to make the same choice (or a different one)?
+1
Again, that’s not banning. That’s a parent making choices for their child. That’s what parents do.
Why do Republicans struggle so hard with this stuff?
Please list the schools that have Penthouse on their shelves.
Anonymous
11/30/2023 15:22
Subject: Re:Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:👏👏👏 Penguin Random House is suing Iowa in an effort to halt censorship in America.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/what-were-doing-legal-action/?ref=PRHC2799639507F&aid=43939&linkid=PRHC2799639507F
Good!
Anonymous
11/30/2023 14:13
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Do you or do you not want old copies of Penthouse in the school library?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.
Is it?
Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.
The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.
OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP
Okay?
“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.
Your party is fascist.
So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.
Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.
There’s too much stupid here.
Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.
Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.
Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.
Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.
But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!
Which is fine. Why would you deny other parents the right to make the same choice (or a different one)?
+1
Again, that’s not banning. That’s a parent making choices for their child. That’s what parents do.
Why do Republicans struggle so hard with this stuff?
Anonymous
11/30/2023 13:34
Subject: Re:Seriously with the book banning ?
👏👏👏 Penguin Random House is suing Iowa in an effort to halt censorship in America.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/what-were-doing-legal-action/?ref=PRHC2799639507F&aid=43939&linkid=PRHC2799639507F
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/what-were-doing-legal-action/?ref=PRHC2799639507F&aid=43939&linkid=PRHC2799639507F
Anonymous
11/11/2023 09:02
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:And here are the natural consequences of a state’s hysterics on books - good professionals leave the library field. Because they’re sick of being a censor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/florida-book-bans-school-rules/
That was before the school board meeting on April 5, 2022, when Tania watched parents read aloud from books they described as a danger to kids. It was before she received a phone call from the district, the day after that, instructing her to remove four books from her shelves. It was before a member of the conservative group Moms for Liberty told her on Facebook, a few days later, that she shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near students. It had been 18 months since then. Nine months since she had taken Florida’s new training for librarians, a mandatory hour-long video, and heard the state say that books in the library must not contain sexual content that could be “harmful to minors” and that violating this statute would result in a third-degree felony. “A crime,” the training had said. “Districts should err on the side of caution.” It had been seven months since she began collecting Florida’s laws and statutes in a purple folder on her desk, highlighting the sections that made her mad, and also the ones that could get her fired. Six months since she broke out in hives, since eczema crept up the side of her face, since she started having trouble sleeping and got a prescription for an anti-anxiety medication. Five months since she stood in her house crying and her husband said it wasn’t worth it anymore. He could work two jobs if he had to. “You need to quit,” he’d told her. Six weeks since the start of another school year. Five weeks since she had given her notice.
And sometime in the middle of all that, as she showed up every weekday at 7 a.m. and tried to focus on the job she had signed up for, which was, she thought, to help students discover a book to love, Tania could feel something shifting inside her 21st-century media center. The relationships between students and books, and parents and libraries, and teachers and the books they taught, and librarians and the job they did — all of it was changing in a place she thought had been designed to stay the same.
…
she walked to her desk and to the purple folder.
Inside, there were printouts of 79 pages of Florida law and statute that told her how to think about what students should and should not read. One law made it easier for people to challenge books they believed contained sexual conduct or age-inappropriate material. Another defined that term, “sexual conduct,” in layer upon layer of clinical specificity.[quote\]
It's so terrible! Republicans are certifiable evil nutjobs.
Anonymous
11/11/2023 08:50
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
And here are the natural consequences of a state’s hysterics on books - good professionals leave the library field. Because they’re sick of being a censor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/florida-book-bans-school-rules/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/florida-book-bans-school-rules/
That was before the school board meeting on April 5, 2022, when Tania watched parents read aloud from books they described as a danger to kids. It was before she received a phone call from the district, the day after that, instructing her to remove four books from her shelves. It was before a member of the conservative group Moms for Liberty told her on Facebook, a few days later, that she shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near students. It had been 18 months since then. Nine months since she had taken Florida’s new training for librarians, a mandatory hour-long video, and heard the state say that books in the library must not contain sexual content that could be “harmful to minors” and that violating this statute would result in a third-degree felony. “A crime,” the training had said. “Districts should err on the side of caution.” It had been seven months since she began collecting Florida’s laws and statutes in a purple folder on her desk, highlighting the sections that made her mad, and also the ones that could get her fired. Six months since she broke out in hives, since eczema crept up the side of her face, since she started having trouble sleeping and got a prescription for an anti-anxiety medication. Five months since she stood in her house crying and her husband said it wasn’t worth it anymore. He could work two jobs if he had to. “You need to quit,” he’d told her. Six weeks since the start of another school year. Five weeks since she had given her notice.
And sometime in the middle of all that, as she showed up every weekday at 7 a.m. and tried to focus on the job she had signed up for, which was, she thought, to help students discover a book to love, Tania could feel something shifting inside her 21st-century media center. The relationships between students and books, and parents and libraries, and teachers and the books they taught, and librarians and the job they did — all of it was changing in a place she thought had been designed to stay the same.
…
she walked to her desk and to the purple folder.
Inside, there were printouts of 79 pages of Florida law and statute that told her how to think about what students should and should not read. One law made it easier for people to challenge books they believed contained sexual conduct or age-inappropriate material. Another defined that term, “sexual conduct,” in layer upon layer of clinical specificity.[quote\]
Anonymous
11/08/2023 07:16
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.
Is it?
Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.
The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.
OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP
Okay?
“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.
Your party is fascist.
So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.
Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.
There’s too much stupid here.
Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.
Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.
Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.
Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.
But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!
Which is fine. Why would you deny other parents the right to make the same choice (or a different one)?
+1
Again, that’s not banning. That’s a parent making choices for their child. That’s what parents do.
Why do Republicans struggle so hard with this stuff?
Anonymous
11/08/2023 07:13
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.
Is it?
Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.
The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.
OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP
Okay?
“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.
Your party is fascist.
So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.
Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.
There’s too much stupid here.
Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.
Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.
Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.
Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.
But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!
Which is fine. Why would you deny other parents the right to make the same choice (or a different one)?
Anonymous
11/08/2023 07:07
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just pointing out that despite being deeply dissatisfied with the school board’s COVID chaos, Fairfax County appears to have just voted the same group back into office for another 4 years— 12-0D— in large part because the R candidates ran heavily on book banning and making life difficult for trans kids. And there are plenty of people who would have voted R if Rs had focused on education instead of book banning and LGBTQ kids. Because the incumbents voted back in we’re not beloved. Or even liked. They are just better than 4 years of Mothers of Liberty running school libraries.
This is simply what Democrats do - vote in the same nutters over and over again. If even ONE Republican had been elected to the SB, that would have provided at least a tiny bit of balance. But no. We are destined to relive four more painfully unproductive years, putting academics at the very bottom of a laundry list filled with social issues. No one to blame but yourselves.
You guys ran on banning books and hating trans kids. That’s not academics, that’s wing nut.
Yeah. For the first time in forever I was willing to hear what the republicans had to say. I think the focus on DEI has gone overboard. Which is not to say that we shouldn’t have DEI initiatives- but that can’t be the startling and ending of everything. I wanted to hear about class size and tying the hands of teachers. But instead I got some book banning people - which is offensive. And trans kids. I know nothing about trans kids except that they and their families have a hard time. Why the heck would I want to make things more difficult for them? So I voted straight D again.
Anonymous
11/08/2023 06:42
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just pointing out that despite being deeply dissatisfied with the school board’s COVID chaos, Fairfax County appears to have just voted the same group back into office for another 4 years— 12-0D— in large part because the R candidates ran heavily on book banning and making life difficult for trans kids. And there are plenty of people who would have voted R if Rs had focused on education instead of book banning and LGBTQ kids. Because the incumbents voted back in we’re not beloved. Or even liked. They are just better than 4 years of Mothers of Liberty running school libraries.
This is simply what Democrats do - vote in the same nutters over and over again. If even ONE Republican had been elected to the SB, that would have provided at least a tiny bit of balance. But no. We are destined to relive four more painfully unproductive years, putting academics at the very bottom of a laundry list filled with social issues. No one to blame but yourselves.
Hey, I wanted to vote my Dem Rep out. But not for someone whose top priority, in the top 3 list they gave ballotpedia, was book banning. Im sorry— protecting our children from porn And whose second priority was harassing trans kids. Sorry. Protecting girls sports. So my R option put their top two issues as social issues. Ones I find abhorrent, BTW. I had a kid spend junior year taking 5 APs in my basement. I have no issue voting Dems out. But the book banner transphobe was not going to focus on education over social issues either. I know this because she said so in her written survey. So my choice was relatively benign social issues vs awful social issues. No one was talking about academics.
I did vote for the independent STEM teacher who ran for the at large seat.
Book banning is not protecting kids that is absurd
Who makes you or moms 4 liberty the best judge of what should kids read you are all hateful idiots and have. No business being near kids
Anonymous
11/08/2023 04:58
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just pointing out that despite being deeply dissatisfied with the school board’s COVID chaos, Fairfax County appears to have just voted the same group back into office for another 4 years— 12-0D— in large part because the R candidates ran heavily on book banning and making life difficult for trans kids. And there are plenty of people who would have voted R if Rs had focused on education instead of book banning and LGBTQ kids. Because the incumbents voted back in we’re not beloved. Or even liked. They are just better than 4 years of Mothers of Liberty running school libraries.
This is simply what Democrats do - vote in the same nutters over and over again. If even ONE Republican had been elected to the SB, that would have provided at least a tiny bit of balance. But no. We are destined to relive four more painfully unproductive years, putting academics at the very bottom of a laundry list filled with social issues. No one to blame but yourselves.
Hey, I wanted to vote my Dem Rep out. But not for someone whose top priority, in the top 3 list they gave ballotpedia, was book banning. Im sorry— protecting our children from porn And whose second priority was harassing trans kids. Sorry. Protecting girls sports. So my R option put their top two issues as social issues. Ones I find abhorrent, BTW. I had a kid spend junior year taking 5 APs in my basement. I have no issue voting Dems out. But the book banner transphobe was not going to focus on education over social issues either. I know this because she said so in her written survey. So my choice was relatively benign social issues vs awful social issues. No one was talking about academics.
I did vote for the independent STEM teacher who ran for the at large seat.
So - in your mind - protecting girls' sports = harassing trans kids. Got it.
This is DCUM and we live in the DC Metro area. People here understand dog whistles. If you're running for school board, focus on education and schools and not targeting books and minority kids.
Anonymous
11/08/2023 02:21
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.
Is it?
Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.
The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.
OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP
Okay?
“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.
Your party is fascist.
So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.
Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.
There’s too much stupid here.
Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.
Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.
Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.
Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.
But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!
Meh. My parents were more concerned about exposure to violence than sex. They thought it way more damaging for kids. And I suspect they were right.
And my Catholic high school had sophomores watch Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. The nuns had no problems with 14 year olds seeing the nude scene with its implications of a sex act. Sorry your parents were such puritans.
Hypothetical puritans since gender queer didn't exist when op was a kid
I have a lot of memories of kids passing around romance novels or other books that had pretty graphic depictions of sex. I remember my friends and I would read the Anita Blake vampire Hunter books or Clan of the cave bear books. As teenagers we were receiving so many conflicting messages about sex and it was helpful to try and understand what enthusiastic and mutually pleasurable sex looked like.
Anonymous
11/07/2023 23:16
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.
Is it?
Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.
The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.
OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP
Okay?
“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.
Your party is fascist.
So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.
Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.
There’s too much stupid here.
Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.
Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.
Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.
Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.
But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!
Meh. My parents were more concerned about exposure to violence than sex. They thought it way more damaging for kids. And I suspect they were right.
And my Catholic high school had sophomores watch Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. The nuns had no problems with 14 year olds seeing the nude scene with its implications of a sex act. Sorry your parents were such puritans.
Meh. My parents were hardly Puritans. Sorry your parents were such prisses.
Well mine never ever took books away or said “you have to be an adult to read this.”” Hardly prissy.