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What's been really jarring about this issue is that everyone is calling it a "book ban", when it demonstrably is not. It's removing certain (in some cases porno
by remarkEon 4y ago
What's been really jarring about this issue is that everyone is calling it a "book ban", when it demonstrably is not. It's removing certain (in some cases pornographic) material from school curricula and libraries. Maybe you can steelman an argument that goes something like "if they remove this from school curricula and libraries, they'll try to remove it from the [everywhere else] too". This is of course silly. Plus, you can just go actually read the text of these laws.
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- Avshalom 4y ago>(in some cases pornographic) so what was going on in all those other cases? >they'll try to remove it from the [everywhere else] too" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/gop-lawmaker-petitions-court-ban-barnes-noble-selling-queer-book/ https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/gop-lawmaker-petitions-c... hey look they've already started escalating. Now, that one got dismissed but yeah, your "steelman" is not in fact "silly"
- remarkEon 4y agoThe other cases are borderline. Not truly “porn”, but definitely something a parent might object to. I don’t get the backlash here at all. Parents can inform what goes into curricula and that’s what’s happened here. Also, a nakedly unconstitutional attempt to control the inventory of a private company is not exactly the greatest example of an escalating.
- drewcoo 4y ago> calling it a "book ban", when it demonstrably is not. It's removing certain (in some cases pornographic) material from school curricula and libraries. Removing certain books from all the libraries is what we call "banning" those books. That's literally what the term means. > you can just go actually read the text of these laws Here, kid, no Judy Bloom for you, but you can read the law that prohibits her book? That's just sick.