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Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

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Re: Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

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You hire professionals to teach your children. If you think you can do it better than them, why are you sending your kids to school?

I guess you are fine with the recent increase in homeschooling which is hitting record numbers. The activists..oops "professionals" don't like that either.

Look at who homeschools children. It's not people who value education.

Re: Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

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Except the Bell Curve it's bullshit. I'm from Europe (Spain), and even the Francoists said otherwise. Right wing people further than Pether Thiel itself. Go figure. A nun, some woman (women are far more aware than men on emotions as their hormones basically grant an A+ on social skills) stated that Black People weren't dumb, but African people had no tradition at all on stimulating or paying good attention babies/tod…

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And still better than most Africans. The more attention they pay to their children, the better adults you get. Also, a good nutritition can be THE major change for anything, such as the Omega3 fats from several fish based dishes.

Re: Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

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They are banned though. Not curated. You are not allowed to have these in school libraries. It’s not an editorial decision. For instance the Utah law says that a book must be removed from all libraries if 3 school districts in the state ban it. No librarian, or teacher, or admin or parent in the other school districts gets any say. That’s a ban. People may not like that their state is engaging in authoritarian behavi…

Okay let’s be clear on what we’re talking about. I have seen lots of discussions about headlines along the lines of “ bans ”. Or just referring to book X as “a banned book in ”. This has the problem I described, and this is where I see arguments happening that don’t really make sense to me. It isn’t doublespeak to say what I said about this. If what we’re talking about is actually the more detailed headline “ bans FR…

Yes? That’s what the whole movement is about in the US and it’s the lead reason dua lipa quotes in the linked article.

Re: Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

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The specific examples I provided included domestic abuse; most sexual abuse is done by a family member. I hope it's not contentious to say that parental control should not be as authoritarian as to allow that, let alone suppress the victim's knowledge of what it is.

Not any abuse, no. But who is trying to censor or ban information on how abuse victims can get help?

Conversion therapy advocates have disproportionate influence in book banning, for example. We know that's a form of torture.
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