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This is a remarkably crude and revanchist move from Republican politicians. It’s embarrassing but mostly bluster and spectacle. It won’t work, and there are alr
by thundergolfer 4y ago
This is a remarkably crude and revanchist move from Republican politicians. It’s embarrassing but mostly bluster and spectacle. It won’t work, and there are already for more effective and sophisticated forms of media control wielded by their allies (See Jane Meyer’s Dark Money, or Messengers of the Right). But at the end of the day it’s school-wars red meat for the rubes, and that’s good enough for De Santis.
- mschuster91 4y ago> It’s embarrassing but mostly bluster and spectacle. It won’t work What they are doing is plain FUD - fear, uncertainty and doubt. And hell yes it works. Vague laws absolutely work, just look at recent cases where women had to wait days for a life-saving abortion because of insanely vague laws, e.g. [1]. [1] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/idaho-woman-shares-19-day-miscarriage-tiktok-states/story?id=96363578 https://abcnews.go.com/Health/idaho-woman-shares-19-day-misc...
- thundergolfer 4y agoAgree that it spreads FUD, but I mean it won't work as children can still trivially access banned books if they desire. The much greater threat to children's reading comes not from the particular books available in their school classroom, but from other factors: parental literacy and reading habits; literacy of child; number of books in household, literate culture of child's milieu.