A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:
“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”
Attached: 1 image I’ve been saying this, for years, Prohibition does nothing but increase demand. If you prohibit a drug, drink, or a book, or any other kind of media, you will increase interest in that thing exponentially. Forbidding me to read anything worked out really well for my parents. I read everything they told me not to! #ReversePsychology.
@johnno Who would have the power to ban the website? Individual states don't have that power, and even if they tried to, kids know about VPNs. The federal government could, but any ban would be removed by the courts as an infringement of first amendment rights.
Also, "we" are not banning books. "They" are. "We" need to fight them, and such a website would be one way of doing that.
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Sorry to disagree, but WE (as a society) are banning books.
Here in The Netherlands we have one (1) officially banned book. (Mein Kampf)
In my opinion the huge number of banned books in the US speaks volumes about the indisposition of that society.
@johnno Saying it again doesn't make it true.
There is one political party in the US that is banning books. The Republican Party is not the United States. It's simply one political element within the United States.
@Frantasaur @bodhipaksa @johnno Yeah, no. Proportional representation which results in the American Nazi Party getting 2% of the seats is not preferable to the Jungle Primary in which the winner *always* gets over 50% of the vote.
Our "Third Parties" don't win elections because they suck. Best case: they're deeply stupid. More likely, they're "controlled opposition" for rational partisans.
@Frantasaur @bodhipaksa @johnno I wish more of their governance but at least they understand that dictating police requires winning elections.
The third parties front like they're real contenders for presidential races without winning any of the 536 federal offices. Forget voters, they can't even find candidates for state-level races.
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