The books could be kept on the shelves if:
Under cover of night, Romeo (age 16) and Juliet (age 13) consummate their marriage. Hard not to admit it includes "content involving human reproduction or sexual matters" when the price of failure is a felony. If adopted curriculum (Gatsby, Mockingbird, 1984, Giver, Outsiders), stuff read by most students in US public schools over the last 40 years isn't considered safe anymore, modern young adult fiction doesn't stand a chance. 📚💔
@mwyman Alas, yes.
“Reading gives people ideas! Where will THAT lead‽ They might end-up doing ANYTHING!!” To which I would reply ‘yes, that’s the point’ and send them into further panic. @knapjack @neilhimself
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A few folks around here always challenge the Bible to be banned every time they talk about banning books based on some BS rule.
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Keeping people too overworked, underpaid, sick, without birth control, and uneducated to stand AGAINST the system is the goal.
Might I add that the bible, biology books, national geographic, encyclopedias and other books are now in contempt by this standard.
But, this was never about being correct- it was about making people happy. But no one ever was- nor will be.
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When there were adult magazines in my household, I found them and 'read' them without permission. I was told not to read them, but did so anyway. They didn't make them go away.
When my guardians eventually realized that there was no stopping my exposure to things they didn't want me to be around, they begrudgingly had to step up and start talking to me about various subjects on a case by case basis.
Nah! It's much easier to just have a fit and have the book banned so no one can even mention it to their child.
@FlorriePuddlefoot @rmquist @knapjack @neilhimself
Imagine that- having civil discussions as a means to understand and get along with each other...
Starting to think the US is punking the rest of the world. But we know you can't be living the plot of Fahrenheit 451
..." isn't considered safe anymore" ...dont buy in
The is no consideration, this is a fascist attack on speech and people, deciding for everyone what they are allowed to say, read, dress, how to be in the world.
Times havent "changed" this is an assault, an attack. And those that can must resist this assault unto stopping the State from functioning.
I like voting and collective bargaining. Protect the weak.
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Makes me want to finally start one of those Little Free Libraries that I see here and there.
@spotrick @knapjack @neilhimself @EriogonumDarwin
I considered this as well, but I will not refrain from action out of fear of the ‘might be someday’
If it happens, I can just take it down… and come up with a Plan C.
@knapjack @neilhimself The truly idiotic thing about school book banning is that most kids could not care less because they get their content from the Internet.
I can't wait for the moral panicky parents to figure this out.
I predict they are going to force schools to allow only specific websites and block all others, making the castrated Internet a useless resource for learning.
But the kids still will not care because they have mobile phones.
A castrated internet has been a thing in some schools for years.
@knapjack @neilhimself I keep thinking, any day now, the cognitive dissonance between American celebration of Liberty and Freedom versus the new Puritanism, loading on more and more regulation and restrictions, from books to bodily autonomy, is going to make conservative heads explode. 😞
I guess when a single judge can invalidate the medically well researched work of the FDA, there are no limits. Stick a fork in America, it's done.
And my wife, who has been teaching since 1995, appalled and disheartened and all of the above. And half of her students have seen Cocaine Bear, so the fervor over novels is as ridiculous as it is dangerous.
It reminds me of something a friend told me maybe 20 years ago about an Afghan kid he had in his history class. Their family fled Afghanistan years before, the mom had been a surgeon, and like a Handmaid's Tale nightmare progressively saw her rights being taken away over a short period of time: couldn't work, girls couldn't go to school, etc. They were wealthy enough and took action early enough to leave, but couldn't fathom how it could possibly happen.
I feel like we're in the middle of that train wreck here, asking ourselves what that strange noise is.
" .. and here there's a picture of the Monna Lisa " SEXUAL !
" .. he gave her a goodnight kiss .. " SEXUAL !
" little Red riding hood meets the wolf " SEXUAL !
" you can see here how two USB connectors mate .. " SEXUAL ( uses the word "mate" )
" .. the coupling of the gears ... " SEXUAL
" .. these two prime numbers form a pair .. " SEXUAL !
" .. the word 'Libro' is of male gender .. " SEXUAL !
Lawyers' feast all over the places I suppose ...
But someone already played the bible card in Utah: https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent-says-bible-contains/
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