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> If a school makes a choice about which books to include in a library or a curriculum, that is their choice (or their loss, I suppose). It's not the school's
by t0mas88 3y ago
> If a school makes a choice about which books to include in a library or a curriculum, that is their choice (or their loss, I suppose).
It's not the school's choice, there is a law that requires the school to do this.
These laws are written to further polarise society and gain some votes. Unfortunately it works...
- remarkEon 3y agoOkay. If people vote for this, what's the problem?
- scotty79 3y agoThe stupidity of it? Of people vote for brexit or nazis or slavery is it fine just because they voted?
- supazek 3y ago>brexit They influenced voters! Those bastards!
- jabradoodle 3y agoYes, with lies. Look up "We send the EU £350m a week. Let’s fund our NHS instead" as one of the major examples.
- remarkEon 3y agoAll lies are lies, but some lies are more lie-y than others.
- remarkEon 3y agoSurely you can see the difference between voting for a set of books to be/not to be in a school curriculum/library (through your elected representation) and Nazis ... right?
- tstrimple 3y agoNazis had to start somewhere.
- scotty79 3y agoYes, I see the difference between different flavors of stupidity. But I percieve human stupidity as a fifth elemental force. And disasters caused by it as sort of natural disasters. And while I can see the obvious difference between flames consuming someone's house and a peacefully burning candle, I am aware of the connection between them and I can make up a scenario of how one can potentially lead to the other.
- remarkEon 3y ago>I can make up a scenario Thanks, I'm aware that, in situations related to school curricula, most people need to make up absurd strawmen in order to argue that something is happening that isn't (e.g. removing pornography from the school library inevitably leads to book burnings in the parking lot after the high school football game). In your example you'd be the one in favor of banning candles because you fundamentally don't trust people to handle things themselves in a reasonable way, according to their own interests and preferences.
- scotty79 3y agoI don't need to make up any scenarios of slippery slope. Book banning is by itself wrong in any shape or form. It's a manifestation of the same flavor of stupidity that makes people succumb to authocratic and theocratic ideas.
- gmerc 3y agoPeople voted for the Nazis too well knowing what they stood for. The gas chambers were legal. What’s your point?
- remarkEon 3y ago>People voted for the Nazis too well knowing what they stood for. This is actually a lie that the Nazi party propagandized after Hitler seized the Chancellorship.
- flangola7 3y agoIf people vote to boil kittens alive that doesn't make it okay. Don't make us spoon-feed you, you're acting in bad faith and you know it.
- remarkEon 3y agoThis case is about controls on school library inventory and class curriculum. I don't understand what boiling kittens has to do with this, other than it being a very weird strawman. Removing books that contain content some find objectionable is the same as boiling kittens? Is that what you're saying?
- flangola7 3y agoEveryone here knows what you're doing, it is extremely transparent. I'm telling you to stop it. You're not as clever as you think you are.
- remarkEon 3y ago>I'm telling you to stop it. Oh well in that case. You brought up a ridiculous comparison (boiling kittens) in order to attempt to bully me into agreeing with your position that, for some reason, elected officials restricting library inventories and school curricula is "bad", ostensibly because you have different content preferences than the people involved (in Iowa, in this case). Perhaps you should stop it.