Rather than trying to shoehorn the bits in various random threads of Republican malfeasance, I figured we could have one just for that. This, apparently, is all that's needed to get a book banned in Florida libraries. https://twitter.com/MarvinDunn4/status/1659949558506348546
I'll add the landslide defeat of two wannabe book-burners in the recent Meridian, Idaho elections. Meridian is traditionally considered a bedroom community for Boise, but is growing so fast that it's developing its own identity. Even in Idaho, it seems that in free and fair elections these douchebags don't have nearly the support they think they do, although that wouldn't stop them from trying.
If I didn’t know better, I’d say that Baba wrote the complaint that got a book banned, it was so filled with gibberish.
The poem recited at Biden’s inauguration has now been banned. https://twitter.com/theamandagorman/status/1661137498339418113?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ
She couldn’t even fill out the complaint form correctly. How could the school take it seriously. Oh right, Florida.
“Sauce for the goose, Mr Saavik." Davis District pulls Bible from elementaries, junior highs 'due to vulgarity or violence'
And now a school in Utah is "reviewing" the Book of Mormon. It's got battles, beheadings, and kidnappings, after all. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/03/us/utah-bible-ban-schools-trnd/index.html
I really hope this isn't true Kids narcing on kids for having a book in their backpack is next level, dark ages shit that does nothing but impede progress and spit in the face of the incredible accomplishments civilization has made Fuck anyone who supports this bullshit
They never go after The Bible and "Mein Kampf". Those books have piled up more carcasses in history than anything. While the death toll of "Heather Has Two Mommies" is...*checks*...zero. Huh. Why, it's almost like moral panics are always ginned up by fascists. But that can't be, because the fascists say "nuh uh". How can we possibly pierce through an alibi that airtight?
It has been age-restricted, despite containing anything more age-inappropriate than the Bible by a long shot.
Y'know what scarred me as a kid? The Satanic Panic. Y'know who brought us that shit? Religious conservatives. Y'know what I thought of butts? That they were funny. Never had a sleepless night due to butts. Had plenty "The Demon Murder Case" nightmares though. Thanks, religion.
My older son wasn’t and still isn’t much of a reader. My younger son, OTOH, is an AVID reader. And he read and still reads many books banned from public schools. Even the ones before this nonsense. Parent’s, including this bitch who can’t stop wasting public school funds with her nonsense, need to stop depending on public schools to raise their children. Buy, rent, or check out (of a library) any book in which your child is interested. Talk to them. Read the book and discuss what s/he got from it vs what you took away. For Christ’s sake, raising children isn’t rocket science. You just need to pay attention.