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As the article mentions, this is not an isolated incident in either Tennessee or nationally. Maybe this book would be banned at any other time. But it is hard
by slg 5y ago
As the article mentions, this is not an isolated incident in either Tennessee or nationally. Maybe this book would be banned at any other time. But it is hard to see this book banning as anything but one incident in a larger pattern of censorship in which CRT is the held up as the primary motivation. As the article says:
>Regardless of why this decision was made, we’re in a climate where a sustained attack is being made on our schools, our teachers, and the truth. The anti-Critical Race Theory furor ginned up by Republican think tanks for political gain morphed into an excuse for right wing folks to try to cancel diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and things they don’t agree with in general — and now Conservative book-banning is really having a moment.
- MBCook 5y agoGotta ban that stuff. It may make kids feel guilty or sad. Of course I explicitly remember listening to Limbaugh in the 90s or so as he made fun of the “liberal fad” of listening to kids feelings and “protecting them from harm” or having to deal with anything that might be hard or painful. Can’t punish Bobby it might hurt his self esteem. Isn’t that where the term liberal snowflake came from? That they were so fragile they had to be coddled and couldn’t handle the real world? And here we are now. What’s good for the goose, I guess.
- batch12 5y agoI always thought snowflake was pointing at the idea that everyone is unique.
- jonhohle 5y agoThe article is disingenuous to what happened. The book has contents that violate school board policy. Educators were asked to replace it without changing the purpose of the module.
- slg 5y ago>The book has contents that violate school board policy. Well I guess the kids can't see the phrase "god damn" or see a drawing of a naked woman when they are learning about the industrialized murder of millions of people. Do you not see how crazy that is? These these kids aren't eight. They are teenagers. They are old enough to learn about these things. This policy is asinine.
- JaimeThompson 5y agoThe school has various religious books, including the Christian Bible, in the library and in some classrooms and I don't see them banning it for the same reasons.
- jonhohle 5y agoDoes the Bible or your other straw man religious books contain content that violates board policies? They don't contain illustrations.
- JaimeThompson 5y agoThe major religious books do contain descriptions, graphic, of violence and sexual acts as well as containing curse words. Now that I have provided that do you still feel what I said was a "straw man"?
- jonhohle 5y agoThis story has nothing to do with descriptions of violence or sexual acts. I'd like to know what you consider curse words, because, at least the Bible, contains literal curses, but not foul language like we consider it today. The discussion at the meeting was literally about keeping the same lessons but using a source that didn't contain specific words and images that violated board policy. They weren't trying to censor violence or descriptions thereof. > Now that I have provided that do you still feel what I said was a "straw man"? I don't see any concrete examples provided, so yes, I still feel it's a straw man.
- JaimeThompson 5y agoEzekiel 23:20 is an example of what they would ban from others books. >The discussion at the meeting was literally about keeping the same lessons but using a source that didn't contain specific words and images that violated board policy. Some states and boards have used the exact same method to include language in lessons to say slaves in the South had it better before they got freed and that slavery wasn't always evil. It is a common tactic to downplay events from the past that make people uncomfortable but humanity has shown that we tend to repeat such events so teaching them is important. >I don't see any concrete examples provided, so yes, I still feel it's a straw man. You could have asked for examples and I would have provided them but I do find it interesting that you didn't provide examples in your own post, you did exactly what I did and posted your opinion. Holding others to a standard you do not follow yourself isn't a productive way to have a discussion. I hope you have a pleasant reset of your day.