Missing is all the bans for classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird" which enraged history revisionists with older-language. This article tries to frame the data that the majority of book cancellations were targeting LBGTQ books but forgets to mention the banning of classic literature.
restricting children's access to sexually suggestive books in tax payer funded schools seems appropriate. the media/press is trying to malign one side into being against free speech and pro-censorship, which is so ironic ... more culture war BS all around
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#12> Each attempt to ban a book by one of these groups represents a direct attack on every person's constitutionally protected right to freely choose what books to read and what ideas to explore. I don't think school library book banning is the biggest threat to free speech today; it's mass internet censorship.
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#13> Each attempt to ban a book by one of these groups represents a direct attack on every person's constitutionally protected right to freely choose what books to read and what ideas to explore. I don't think school library book banning is the biggest threat to free speech today; it's mass internet censorship.
Exactly, I'm more concerned by the books you can't buy on Amazon than the ones you can't check out in a limited space children's library.
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#14Missing is all the bans for classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird" which enraged history revisionists with older-language. This article tries to frame the data that the majority of book cancellations were targeting LBGTQ books but forgets to mention the banning of classic literature.
It's because the majority of book cancellations are targeting LGBTQ books or books talking about issues minorities have to deal with. To Kill a Mockingbird is one book out of hundreds being banned. https://www.deseret.com/2022/3/16/22979747/book-bans-are-the... > At first blush, the reports could seem sensational, a narrative driven by political campaigns that could be decided in schools. But the growth in efforts to…
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#15Missing is all the bans for classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird" which enraged history revisionists with older-language. This article tries to frame the data that the majority of book cancellations were targeting LBGTQ books but forgets to mention the banning of classic literature.
restricting children's access to sexually suggestive books in tax payer funded schools seems appropriate. the media/press is trying to malign one side into being against free speech and pro-censorship, which is so ironic ... more culture war BS all around
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#17Missing is all the bans for classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird" which enraged history revisionists with older-language. This article tries to frame the data that the majority of book cancellations were targeting LBGTQ books but forgets to mention the banning of classic literature.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's because the majority of book cancellations are targeting LGBTQ books or books talking about issues minorities have to deal with. To Kill a Mockingbird is one book out of hundreds being banned. https://www.deseret.com/2022/3/16/22979747/book-bans-are-the... > At first blush, the reports could seem sensational, a narrative driven by political campaigns that could be decided in schools. But the growth in efforts to…
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#19I would also hate if a school wasn't allowed to talk about the holocaust because a german student's dad felt oppressed, and I also hate that the southern states seem to be hell bent on continuing to spread propaganda about the civil war to keep the lost cause myth alive.
Just because a parent THINKS "being gay" is sexually suggestive doesn't mean that it IS. The world is full of black people, trans people, women, gay people, weird people, dumb people, straight people, sad people etc, and it is morally reprehensible to not teach kids to respect them as fellow human beings just to please someone who has a closed mind. Some day little timmy might have to go to work with someone who doesn't fit into your tight knit idea of what a normal person is, and we shouldn't saddle timmy with your poor opinions about who deserves the pursuit of happiness. You either think every human deserves a basic amount of respect and dignity or you don't.
We literally had to go to court in this country just to teach kids that evolution is a thing. This is just more of the same.
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Yes, kids learning about gay people is so traumatizing for them that gay rights must be stripped to protect the children. This is totally a rational line of thought often held by people who in no way are bigoted against LGBT folk.