Missouri lawmakers move to strip library funding, retaliate for book ban lawsuit
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Re: Missouri lawmakers move to strip library funding, retaliate for book ban lawsuit
#2Leopards Eating your Face party votes to eat your face.
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#5> The proposal, approved close to midnight by the House Budget Committee, would cut the entire $4.5 million in state aid that libraries were slated to get next year. The proposed library cut, along with other changes to the state’s roughly $50 billion budget, will now head to the full Missouri House.
What does this mean for libraries? $4.5 million can't have been enough to fund a statewide library network so presumably libraries are getting funding from elsewhere.
A quick search suggests there are 171 public libraries in Missouri. This works out to $26,315 per library. I'm sure that money is appreciated but that can't be significant.
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If you hold that book up to the same standards it probably has be banned too right? Lots of sexually explicit content in that one.
Edit: Instead of downvoting maybe do a little research first? Here's a story about a lawsuit in Utah aiming to remove the bible from schools based on the same silly grounds they are banning other books: https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent...
Re: Missouri lawmakers move to strip library funding, retaliate for book ban lawsuit
#8As a european that frequently discusses political topics with people from the US, I recall times when conservatives over there were all about "small government" and "freedom of speech" and how they would literally fight for those rights (that's what the second amendment was written for in their eyes).
Where are those people today? Why are they not more vocal? Or were these values always just a veneer for something else that now comes to light?
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If you hold that book up to the same standards it probably has be banned too right? Lots of sexually explicit content in that one. Edit: Instead of downvoting maybe do a little research first? Here's a story about a lawsuit in Utah aiming to remove the bible from schools based on the same silly grounds they are banning other books: https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent...
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#10Jokes about fascism aside, you can tell that our social climate is in a very unhealthy and unstable spot when something that was previously a community staple has been relegated to the outskirts and can be attacked with not only impunity from criticism but cheers from the supporters.
Knowledge and truth itself are being eroded; on the one hand, very intentionally and precipitously by politicians and corporations enacting authoritarianism for power, and in a more insidious way by ChatGPT and its ilk which can convince you of hallucinations as easily as fact.
When I was young 2 decades ago, I already perceived we had peaked, so it's interesting to watch how clear signs of it are becoming everyday news