Danny Boling ☮️

Know what that is in that photo?
It's a dumpster full of books —mostly LGBT stuff but others too— heading to the landfill.

Know what *that* is?
It's goddamned fascism.

This is what hate looks like.
This is what hate does.

#USpol #USnews #DeSantis #Republicans #GOP #ChristianNationalism #Fascism #BookBurning #LGBTQIA

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/15/new-college-of-florida-throws-away-hundreds-of-library-books-diversity-lgbtq/74814756007/
#NewCollege of #Florida tosses hundreds of #library #books, empties #gender #diversity library

h/t to @alexwild and @futurebird

#IAmDB

New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity library

A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the campus of New College overflowed with books from the Gender and Diversity Center.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Aug 15, 2024 at 11:48pmWeb
Show threadCatherine is not complacentAug 15, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird past fascists and into full out Nazis.
Show thread✊🏾WiseGuyEddieAug 16, 2024

@IAmDannyBoling This photo should disgust us all. The republicans are attacking art and artists and ultimately, our culture which is made manifest through our American diversity. I'm both angered and saddened.

#voteblue #Democrats #libraries #books

Show threadgeographileAug 16, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird when a waste of resources, but there's no way they're going to send them to someplace like California or New York.
Show threadKaren StrickholmAug 16, 2024
@geographile @IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird They aee going to landfill, apparently.
Show threadgeographileAug 16, 2024
@KarenStrickholm @IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird at least recycle the damn paper
Show threadKaren StrickholmAug 16, 2024
@geographile @IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird Right?!! Because of some statute they can't sell or donate the books either.
Show threadgeographileAug 16, 2024

@KarenStrickholm @IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird I know with unsold books at book stores they have to remove the cover (to make them unsellable) and technically destroy them, to prove to the publishing company that they didn't sell them. But in this case they want them not to exist.

Orthogonally, when there was a huge Moms for Liberty (functionally, the proud boys women's auxiliary) convention recently somewhere, Virginia? Pennsylvania? an organization fighting them had a huge giveaway of books that had been banned in schools in states where they almost active, outside the venue.

Show threadKaren StrickholmAug 16, 2024

@geographile @IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird Good for them! Have you seen the scary indoctrination children's books they are generating? Talk about alternative facts.

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Show threadgeographileAug 16, 2024
@KarenStrickholm @IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird fortunately, I am far away. I might look at that if I get brave.
Show threadgeographileAug 16, 2024

@KarenStrickholm @IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird I have completely convinced my homeschooler that social justice is a worthy cause and racism and sexism and homophobia are worth fighting, physical and neurological diversity are perfectly reasonable parts of general human diversity, and that Trump is absolutely unfit to lead his own household, let alone the United States. Call it propaganda if you will.

#homeschool #diversity

Show threadKaren StrickholmAug 17, 2024
@geographile @IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird Right on, outstanding parenting!!
Show threadKaren StrickholmAug 17, 2024
@geographile @IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird Dont, it will make you sick.
Show threadSablebadgerAug 16, 2024

@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird

goddamn it florida, what the hell?

Show threadGreg BellAug 16, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling I'm surprised they don't set it on fire to release the carbon and own the libs
Show threadAutumn Mahoney Aug 16, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird oh, this pains my idealistic heart. 💔
Show threadDoreen32128 ready to rumble!Aug 16, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird This makes my blood boil! #DeSantis destroyed that school.
Show threadKaren StrickholmAug 16, 2024

@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird

In America, 2024.
😔💔🥵😡🤬

Show threadKaren StrickholmAug 16, 2024

@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird

SPEAK, Danny. 📣📣📣

Show threadsandywb14Aug 16, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird 😡😡😡
Show threadRolingMetalAug 16, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird Ease up on the F word, when talking about people you don't agree with. Besides; Lots of books are obsolete these days, and it's better to just burn them. Too bad for that nice chair :)
Show threadRiley S. FaelanAug 16, 2024

@uberprutser You just NotAllFascists:ed DeSantis, didn't you.

@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird

Show threadMaier AmsdenAug 16, 2024
@uberprutser @IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird Banning books and the teaching of **accurate** history and social science because they conflict with a bullshit political narrative is a classic Stalinist PC education purge - **overt fascism**. They fired a teacher in GA for reading the most harmless book in the world. Stick your tone policing up your ass.
Show threadSherBearethAug 16, 2024

@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird

Somewhere John Steinbeck is sobbing.

It’s heinous. Go Florida, once again you don’t fail to disappoint or offend at least twice a day. DeSantis is beyond #Weird. He’s the fvcking Prince of Darkness.

Cc: @Snowshadow @GottaLaff 🤬
@Rasta
Not the meme, the story about book bannning/dumping by the truckload, above. ⤴️ We should sear this sight into memory.

Show threadSteve's PlaceAug 16, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird I wonder what the chair did to offend the fascists.
Show threadZen_Art_of_Guardian_SudokuAug 16, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird Rescue and distribute for free!
Show threadLyricismistAug 16, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird Breaking News, there are other books in other places. It’s OK to go to a public library - you can even borrow books there…
Show threadStoneface VimesAug 16, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird where they have burned books, one day they will burn people
Heine
Show threadBobAug 16, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird I honestly don’t know how they can look at themselves and not see the similarities #NatCs
Show threadnaturaldynamicsAug 16, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird
That will be in the history books of shame of American fascism.....
#wrongsideofhistory, #shamefulactsoffascism
Show threadHikerSelmaAug 17, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird
That's too close to Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451' for
comfort. Is this getting coverage on corporate media?
Show threadmyrmepropagandistAug 17, 2024

@HikerSelma @IAmDannyBoling @alexwild

Not like it ought to. They are only talking about Harris and Trump

Show threadHikerSelmaAug 17, 2024
@futurebird @IAmDannyBoling @alexwild
Don't read NYT or Wapo anymore so I was curious. It's not like they are immune from this serious shit.
Show threadnichtsicherOct 20, 2024
@IAmDannyBoling @alexwild @futurebird It also started with burning books in the Nazi Regime.
Next step: Deportation.