Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is there any example yet of an actual kid being damaged by an obviously inappropriate book or are we still just going on the imaginary problems of Republican activists checking school libraries for the presence of books that other Republican activists have compiled as a political device? My guess is the kids never knew about these cool books until the book police publicized them.
Yes, what could be the problem with this book? Hmmm….
This was always the plan. Dumb down Americans so they are easier to con and fleece.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is there any example yet of an actual kid being damaged by an obviously inappropriate book or are we still just going on the imaginary problems of Republican activists checking school libraries for the presence of books that other Republican activists have compiled as a political device? My guess is the kids never knew about these cool books until the book police publicized them.
Yes, what could be the problem with this book? Hmmm….
Anonymous wrote:Is there any example yet of an actual kid being damaged by an obviously inappropriate book or are we still just going on the imaginary problems of Republican activists checking school libraries for the presence of books that other Republican activists have compiled as a political device? My guess is the kids never knew about these cool books until the book police publicized them.
Anonymous wrote:Some of this is semantics. The classroom library is different from the school library. I don’t think restricting books to children and adolescents is the same as banning them. If these books were banned from public library’s, I would not agree. Keeping them off the shelves in high school, I don’t have strong opinions. Personally, I do not want my children forced to read them.
Anonymous wrote:Some of this is semantics. The classroom library is different from the school library. I don’t think restricting books to children and adolescents is the same as banning them. If these books were banned from public library’s, I would not agree. Keeping them off the shelves in high school, I don’t have strong opinions. Personally, I do not want my children forced to read them.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I've read The Handmaid's Tale (not the graphic novel) and V for Vendetta. I can understand not wanting those graphic novels in the school library because of the illustrations of nudity, sexual violence, etc. I haven't read the other books. Honestly I'm not sure what the point of a graphic novel adaptation of a "regular" book even is. Do we need to dumb down classic novels into comics now?
Making literature more accessible to different audiences is a good thing.
Anonymous wrote:
I've read The Handmaid's Tale (not the graphic novel) and V for Vendetta. I can understand not wanting those graphic novels in the school library because of the illustrations of nudity, sexual violence, etc. I haven't read the other books. Honestly I'm not sure what the point of a graphic novel adaptation of a "regular" book even is. Do we need to dumb down classic novels into comics now?
Anonymous wrote:
I've read The Handmaid's Tale (not the graphic novel) and V for Vendetta. I can understand not wanting those graphic novels in the school library because of the illustrations of nudity, sexual violence, etc. I haven't read the other books. Honestly I'm not sure what the point of a graphic novel adaptation of a "regular" book even is. Do we need to dumb down classic novels into comics now?
Anonymous wrote:I am against any and all banning of books.
But racist books - I just do not see how we can tolerate that in society. At all.
There is nothing good coming out of allowing the reading of a racist book.
That sort of book needs to just be cancelled.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why do we have so many people arguing in bad faith? These books are not in school libraries for elementary students.
I'm not sure it's arguing in bad faith when someone simply draws parameters of where they would be okay with seeing a book. Saying books should be age appropriate isn't "book banning."
Pulling Dr. Seuss titles from print is book banning.
Saying you don't think a book should be used in classroom instruction is open for debate.