2/ “So they ban my book from young readers, confuse me with @Oprah , fail to specify what parts of my poetry they object to, refuse to read any reviews, and offer no alternatives…Unnecessary #bookbans like these are on the rise, and we must fight back” 👊🏿
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@randalljgreene @GottaLaff @Oprah
This is the response. They will not listen to reason and our anger encourages them. We have to turn their tactic against them. Not just ban Bibles, but ban any book that mentions Christianity or any book by a conservative. How many Bill O'Reilly books do you think are in Florida public schools?
What's fucking racist is the administrators saw the a-hole saying it was written by "Oprah" and instead of throwing it away as the racist garbage it is, they listen to the a-hole. #boycottFlorida
Whoever is administering the libraries could clearly throw this out because Oprah hasn’t written anything with that title. The fact that they didn’t shows that the administration is 100% on-board with the new fascism
@CDunnPasadena @GottaLaff @Oprah
Exactly. The administration is no different than the loud crazy nuts calling for banning everything.
MAGA voters want their own children "protected" from realities like extraordinary young poets like Amanda Gorman AND prevent YOUR children from learning about her too.
Fine if they want to pretend reality isn't real for themselves, but they do not have the right to impose their ideology on others.
George Lakoff describes conservative parenting as "Strict Father" ideological authoritarianism.
In such an environment, controlling the flow of information to women and children is a critical function of maintaining patriarchal control.
Information asymmetry requires withholding data. It's used to keep power & control.
@morganalafee @Npars01 @GottaLaff
the -authoritarian- conception of power is a very dangerous thing (threat based, power OVER others ).
But that's only one way to wield power. Power is: the ability to make binding decisions, nothing more, nothing less.
Egalitarian minded folks do that via shared input, cooperation and collaboration- aka via democracy
It speaks volumes about how many implicit biases we all hold that so many of us generally think of "power" as a dangerous thing.
@morganalafee @Npars01 @GottaLaff
understood. I'd go even further and say military might the world over (state sanctioned use of force) has had a huge effect on the establishment of countries...meaning most countries were in significant ways established by conquest/colonization (force)...so it makes sense that our "general" thoughts about power are about the authoritarian forms of it.
"Power corrupts" is taken as such a truism -because- authoritarian forms of power have been so pervasive.
@Npars01 @morganalafee @GottaLaff actually, it's not fine. As a citizen, I need other citizens to have a baseline of knowledge about things. It's how we coexist. It's not a high bar, but saying things like "you can't learn about racism or civil rights or LGBTQ people" doesn't clear it.
I have to interact with these children and they will eventually be running things while I'm still alive. I'm ok with parent input as to how and when but not a veto.
@GottaLaff. She's right, of course. Salon:
"Here is a partial list of the dozens of scholars, authors, and other public thinkers whose work has now been declared "illegal" and a "thought crime" by DeSantis and his agents and subsequently marked for removal from the AP African-American Studies course":
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Angela Davis
bell hooks
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Nell Irvin Painter
Manning Marable
Cathy Cohen
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
James Cone
Nikki Giovanni
Barbara Fields
TGOchuck
Laffy
Randall J. Greene
Mxhrad
CDunn
angel eyes
Betsy
Nicole Parsons
Brent, in a jar
CJ Paloma
Jamie Booth
Tanziers
(((Cindy Weinstein)))
GATEKEEPER
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Andrew Ordover
Slavery is violence
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