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• heavyset_go 2y ago
  > Looks like banning books in school is not enough, now they want to ban the sale of some books. The irony, and insincerity, in this is ripe because book ban proponents would scream that they weren't "book bans" because they only wanted to ban books at school and not elsewhere. Turns out they want to ban books everywhere, just like their critics said.
  • ryandrake 2y ago
    Standard prohibitionist playbook: Get your foot in the door by at first claiming an agreeable, limited scope, and then slowly expand to universal prohibition.
    • gruez 2y ago
      So the opponents to "common sense gun legislation" have a point?
      • ryandrake 2y ago
        Absolutely. Same playbook.
• thatfrenchguy 2y ago
  Conservatives have always been like this, talking about small government while wanting a nanny state controlling what you can do and read