hopefully the terrorists are caught and locked up

“The message, replete with spelling and grammatical errors, read as follows . . .”

Well at least we can rule out people who actually use libraries or read books

I just want to know what "inonnence" is

Let me show you how dangerous these books can be to children by threatening to destroy a building with children.

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Sooo.... When are these scumbags getting called the right term? Terrorists.

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Anyone against libraries has never actually used them.

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Well the fact that they can’t spell proves that bigots/ terrorist idiots have about as many brain cells as expected.

I remember the good ol days where bomb threats were used to get out of tests. Where have we gone wrong

Far more than a few mistakes lead us here….

It's them damn violent libruls again, ain't it?

^/s

Ahhhh more examples of christofascist love, as a recovering catholic I remember very well who were the abusers.

So pro-life they’ll blow up a school full of kids and faculty because of a book.

I am not sure what the government is currently putting in jet contrails, but they need to swap over to aerosolized Xanax.

I could very easily picture a Philomena Cunk interview on this

" so did the books make the bomb threats, did they leave some sort of letter?"

Interviewee: " no they were made because of the books"

" well then who made them"

" a group of people people who didn't like the books"

" well that's odd isn't it"

Unfortunately those terrorists are winning the battle in rural and small city school systems.

These “peaceful” Christians.

And queer people are the crazy ones?! Fuck that noise — a bisexual that self-identifies as a goldfish is saner than whatever nutsack bigot pulled this crap.

This is getting ridiculous.

Americans are just barbaric shits. Worse than the Taliban.

>It has been known for all of human history that the innonence of children is sacred.

Someone clearly hasn't read about the children used as squires in the Crusades, or those trained to be Spartans and Janissaries.

How do they quote the note without calling out the lies? "They allow and encourage children to read sexual content such as the book “this book is gay”, a book which contains graphic sexual content [ editors note: it doesn't include sexual content] and encourages children to use hook up apps [editors note: it doesn't encourage children to use hook up apps]. This book is not even designed for teenagers but kids..."

Otherwise it reads like the claims are truthful. Especially since they don't note the lie later in the article either.

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And these are the same people who refuse to address gun control and how many children have to participate in active shooter drills.

They’re more worried about kids reading books than stopping adults from killing people (and kids) with guns.

Yeah, they’d rather see these people dead than to see the country continue its slide away from their beliefs.

Now, if this school full of kids and faculty blows up because of a particular book - the bible - you can be sure they’d be outraged.

And how many children have shot a family member, friend or teacher with an unsecured gun.

Exactly.

It's also ironic that these are the same people who whine about "woke" and "politically correct" and they're literally threatening to blow up schools, along with violence against librarians, because of a book. Not a law that is passed (oh, like banning the morning after pill in Wyoming) or overturning a landmark case about bodily autonomy (Roe v. Wade), but a book that teaches the reader about things.

I mean, look, I get that some content may not be appropriate for certain age groups, but that's the librarian's job, not these nutjobs who believe sex is only for procreation.

Autocorrected "I know nonsense" maybe?

Wow, much empathy to the babies 😖 they are being used like pawns in grown folks business and they never should have been used.

I am not a parent. To read this much empathy to parents 🫣 to have children terrorized in such a way.

I do however believe I would have some type of feelings if a school wanted to distribute books to my elementary aged child about any sex straight gay or otherwise. A minimum of teachings I would have taught my children about for safety purposes.

I wouldn’t threaten to bomb schools for that though no matter how strongly I felt and other arrangements would have been made if the curriculum insisted.

Peace be with all of those affected by this.

Let me guess - was the call made from the basement in their mothers house by any chance?

they'd use purposeful mistakes out of character to mask their writing style.. I assume these people are practicing good opsec.. you notice you rarely hear of arrests. But they get their end goals met; use terror and bobs your uncle institutions roll over to terrorists when its the right terror.

I hope whoever made those calls spends decades in prison for them.

I hope the judge throws the book at them. And the book they were threatening kids over. Throw that book too.

> Anyone who violates that has forfeit their right to life, we will end you and purify our land of you degenerates and make our country great

Can't imagine where this person falls politically.

Remove the gay books or I’ll threaten to bomb schools, what a lovely world they want us to live in.

Here’s hoping they find this scumbag and let them have nothing but LGBTQ books in the cell.

ter·ror·ist /ˈterərəst/ (noun) a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

or relatives/family friends, clergy/church staff, and coaches

Right-wing terrorism, motivated by the hate stoked by the Republican Party.

When did the world turn nuts?

"Well it's funny because my mate Paul see, he got himself locked in a library one night while on a bender. Try as he might he couldn't get out and had nought but the books to keep him company till someone finally let him out in the morning. When he got back he said he never wanted to see another book again."

Interviewee blinks. "I see."

"Do you think it could be something like that?"

Imagine being so insecure that you're afraid of words.

I agree with your point but please remember that saying shit like

> that self-identifies as a goldfish

Plays right into their dehumanization of trans and non-binary people. Absolutely nobody is claiming their gender is "goldfish", not even goldfish furries.

Old time Reagan voter? I'm joking but this person's political identity would be obvious even without the catchphrase

"look how dangerous these books are -- they incur bomb threats from psychopaths!"

"but you're the psychopaths who made the bomb threat"

"so?"

I'm still trying to figure out why books with LGBTQ+ and Blacks are suddenly bad beyond the fact that Republicans need a hate platform to go along with the "sky is falling" platform.

Even if you think these books are harmful, how are they more harmful than a literal bomb?

People absolutely are, and it's making us actually look insane.

We need to not sweep these things under the rug while we're also dealing with terrorists wanting us dead too.

Christian jihadists.

Psalms 137:9 reads "Happy he shall be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones."

Numbers 31:17-18 "Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."

Let the Bible speak for itself.

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Fuck Zombies. The Moron Apocalypse is coming.

Just to underline exactly who they are they say "make our country great".

And MAGA heads get so offended when called out on their violent/terroistic BS.

Your country is screwed

This is so fucking insane and yet so normal. Cultures and societies are not static. They evolve and there are always people who are fearful of change. These guys are no different than those who were screaming at 6-year old Ruby Bridges, the first African American child to desegregate an elementary school in the south and paving the way for Civil Rights action in the American South.

Every time I despair about these people and their hateful actions, I am reminded of the images of those who were screaming at that little girl and their ugliness. Ruby won and the future Rubys will win. I just hope we didn't have to deal with a version of these hateful lunatics every decade.

You know you can insult homophobes without insulting people with disabilities.

Signed someone who didn’t have enough brain cells to finish high school ✌️

"Recovering Catholic" ? If you dont mind, what does that mean?

solutions to problems in scared people's heads that are fake and not real.

Right wing terrorists act out the rhetoric of the party.

Repeatedly misspelling the same words the same way is used in forensics analysis. For instance innocence is repeatedly misspelled "innonence".

https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvxmbk/forensic-linguists-use-spelling-mistakes-to-help-convict-criminals

Why isn't the FBI doing something against this hate groups? Too busy infiltrating anti-wall street organisations?

Y’al-Qaeda is at it again it seems.

Libraries usually have a Bible in the collection.

I am nonbinary, but I hadn’t really thought of that when I made the post.

Sorry for my carelessness.

Not the person you're replying to, but I'd imagine it means they were raised Catholic, have since left the religion, and don't have a particularly fond view of it (hence "recovering").

Ah I get it now

Seeing lots of The Advocate here recently. Like…a front page post every day. Interesting

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Oh, please. If someone wanted to remove the book, there's easier ways of doing it than a bomb threat. I'd lay odds this is a fake threat so people can beat their chests and scream about bigotry. Modern humans are so completely dominated by the news/noise/outrage cycle it's risible.

>I do however believe I would have some type of feelings if a school wanted to distribute books to my elementary aged child about any sex straight gay or otherwise

Does every child read every single book in the library? Is reading every single book present in the school library a requirement for children to graduate elementary school?

I was a voracious reader as a kid. I read dozens and dozens of books. I read books at recess. I read books under my desk in class. I read books at home. I read books on the bus. I didn't come close to reading every book in the library, and I honestly didn't even bother with the nonfiction section unless it was for an assigned project or if I wanted to look at cute pictures of animals in instructional books about pet care.

The word "distribute" implies that every child is being handed a copy of this book. That isn't what happened.

I read this really gross book once as a kid. There was this part with incest where the daughter was going to bang her father when he was drunk. There was also this part where a father offered up his daughter to a bunch of horny men to rape. There was a part about women being ripped open and their babies killed by being beaten against the ground, and another part where this soldier guy burns his own daughter to death. Actually there was a bunch of talk about babies being smashed against stuff, and a ton of stuff about virgin girls being raped. And these two kids laughed at a guy and then got torn apart by bears?

I forget the name of this book. I wonder what it was. I sure hope nobody's advocating for that book to be put in any schools because frankly that shit is not okay for kids.

This seems more suitable for r/politics or something

Protecting children by threatening their lives.

Trying to squeeze one or two more elections out of the old fucks before Gen Z and the millennials become the majority of the voting base

I’m so done. This is getting out of hand. The government won’t do anything about it either and I’m just fucking DONE

To go along with u/Uh_I_Say - having been in Catholic school for 12 years, it's a process to unfuck your head. Especially if you, like me, were bisexual and wrestled with that throughout high school and college until finally having it hit you at 25 that the reason you got flustered when a certain boy flirted with you is because you really kinda wanted him to kiss you. Bonus points if your coming of age was, again like me, during the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. Cuz then, you got to watch all the people you knew and loved go on about how Islam was a violent religion (sarcastic "religion of peace" jokes abound) and that Christianity was a religion with a "loving god", and then turn right around and banshee scree about how we really just needed to carpet bomb the Middle East, that poor people should suffer more because it'd motivate them, etc.

It's a very ... difficult experience, coming out of all that. For me, it happened because I very much bought into the idea that Jesus taught us to love and be kind to one another, but instead I got a front row seat to people around me waving a book around to justify hate and war, all while demanding complete adherence to that notion lest you be branded "unpatriotic", "unAmerican", or a "sympathizer".

So, what happened to “Thou shalt not kill?” Or… you know, being a decent human being in any shape or form?

I think i read that book as a kid too. A relative made me read it. Maybe we should ban it from schools?

I think so. Kids should be innocent and grow up without hearing about rape and babies being bashed to death and incest. I don't know why anyone would want that book anywhere near a kid.

I do believe I used the word’s “if” and “part of the curriculum”

I can tell you the places in which I went to school. First the private school wouldn’t even had made it into the library.

Second the public school I went to you are right the likelihood of me finding such a book not being marketed/staged/advertised like on the new release place in the library and by random. Not very likely in fifth grade. But for me this would be too young had I.

The public jr high I went to, I can guarantee that either parent provoked or here adult provoked information about this type of book being there. Would have in fact created my peers curiosity and it would have been done in a fashion that would have been very childish obviously, would have left tons of questions assumptions and rumors to be made not every household had a structure that had open discussion nor dialogue for children to be taught or given any clarity about. Had a very high catholic rooted system in place and for the fact these types of relationships don’t align in a family values foundations pre set before school.

The bigger challenge we face is. How about good grades being mandated for the basics that is in place vs the energy spent making sure books like this that cause controversy in the first place don’t even happen.

I see stats of high school reading and comprehension are subpar in this nation. How about we make sure they can read properly, comprehend properly, deduce properly.

Before we get our panties in a bunch to the point we are fighting to get it there in the first place and someone threatens to blow up schools for it. These are adult games being played. Wasted efforts when they could be spending time invested in neutral materials teaching kids fundamentals that don’t have such scaring a/effects should something go haywire such as this event did.

Here's my thing: Why the schools? Leave the fucking children alone. Threaten someone with the power to influence the change you want to see, not some kids who just wanna make it through the day. Their life is hard enough smh.

Books has been around for almost as long as pens, and even longer than some mountains. Some of the most famous people in the world have written books, like Barack Obama, God, ... and even Gordon Ramsay. But.... what IS books? I've come here to Oxford University, in Cambridge, to ask Dr. Josh Phillips, a professor of books.

It's okay, I appreciate the spirit of your comment. It's a bit of a sore spot for me having been the target of "attack helicopter" crap, so that's colouring my reaction.

Hello, book man, who are you?

Dumb bigots on social media also make these mistakes. There’s a high chance the incredibly ignorant people are also incredibly ignorant.

Are you saying some crazy bomb threats are okay?

You know about voting, right?

That's why they're pushing as many voter supression laws as they can.

Yeah they're kinda in for a surprise. That only works for so long.

“We’ll terrorize children in order to protect children” is pure right-wing nonthink. It’s long past time that we as a society recognize the threat that extremist religion - even relatively popular ones - poses to public safety.

No, silly, Christians can’t be terrorists. Just ask them.

Thank you. That thought is definitely a good antidote for despair!!❤❤

Either poor journalism - or intentional spin. I wonder which it might be?

And fuelled by religious delusion.

>family values

Almost always a dogwhistle term for conservative heteronormativity, shaming single parents, same-sex couples, and people who choose not to procreate, and establishing the white Christian nuclear family model (with stay at home mom) as superior to all others.

So basically it's a cute little wholesome term for institutionalized racism and misogyny.

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>How about good grades being mandated for the basics that is in place vs the energy spent making sure books like this that cause controversy in the first place don’t even happen

So you're saying that you agree with books about LGBT+ people and people of color being banned from schools. As though a single book in a library is causing the downfall of the American public school system.

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>Before we get our panties in a bunch to the point we are fighting to get it there in the first place and someone threatens to blow up schools for it

So you're saying that terroristic threats are to be expected for the crime of including books in a school library which discuss LGBT+ themes.

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>Wasted efforts when they could be spending time invested in neutral materials teaching kids fundamentals

By "neutral", of course, you mean "devoid of LGBT+ themes or mention". Kind of like how being any color other than white, and any orientation other than heterosexual, and any religion other than Christian, is considered "political".

I can see by your post history that you're American Indian - why are you aligning yourself with the groups who think that books about your culture and history should also be banned from schools? Why do you talk about "family values" when, within living memory, that included forcible assimilation of indigenous children into white society?

First of all. You are speaking with first people indigenous roots to the lands of the earth you may be standing on today.

I spoke of my peers in my age. But since you have pinned them to me. Let me wait for a reread at you again before I reply to this.

As long as they're white and Christian, the media will just refer to them as "troubled".

The innocence of children is sacred....and yet they're threatening to bomb their schools and potentially kill them and their classmates. They don't think that would destroy their innocence?!

Also, I was a child. I went to school. I can assure you, most children are not innocent. Most of them are cruel, sadistic little assholes. That's what bullies are. I don't know where this idea of children being innocent came from. (Hell, I'm sure these would be terrorists were once awful children themselves. Cause a lot of bad kids become bad adults).

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It’s always been their tactic.

Why not both?

“Books has even been around longer than the release of unrelated Belgian techno anthem, ‘Pump Up The Jam.’ “

>First of all. You are speaking with first people indigenous roots to the lands of the earth you may be standing on today.

I understand that.

And the people who are trying to ban books about LBGT+ people are also banning books about indigenous culture.

Because they think your culture is deviant, and lesser than white culture.

Again, these are the groups you're aligning yourself with.

I am going to further give you my stats and I will respond I am taking in your comments in the spirit in which you spit them. I just have to run my brains processes to do so.

I was born in San Jose California 1976. I am product of a divorced home raised in a single parent household. I lived in the hood. I am only the second generation of missioned Indians at Santa Inez living “freed.”

The men in my family have served in this military both by drafts and enlisted. American Spanish revolution war drafted, wwii drafted.

These are my stats I will share thus far.

Do you agree with public schools period?

They are in them of themselves immersion of anglo culture and always have been. And that would be who you are aligning with all along if you do believe in it.

I think that the American public school system is definitely a mess than needs serious overhaul, but I don't think that banning books/lessons/curriculum/teaching staff that represent anything other than "straight white Christian" is a step in the direction to making schools safer, more inclusive, and a better learning environment for all children.

Because the GOP can't use abortion to rile up their constituents anymore, they need a new "Save the Children" crisis to wave around.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words..... they frighten me.".

I'm in a quiet coffee shop and laughed out loud at this. Doing a Vice undercover interview about books, complete with the mosaic tiling and distorted voices to conceal identities.

Definitely too fucked up for children. Not only is it full of messed up events but it also indoctrinates children more than literally anything else. Must be banned

Lol beg pardon to your brain cells I’m sure they’re fine

How about in this age they focus on one task that they are failing at now such as reading writing and math.

Why skip ahead to other concepts beyond understanding if they don’t have the basics to do so.

Why skip to teach culture of any kind if they can’t read.

Why skip to teaching sexuality and anything related if I haven’t had a period yet and again have No deducing skills to be able to pick a decent human to share sexual acts with.

Do you think because this is a structure who by the way the white Christian brought here with them is the only structure.

Do you think my culture had a classroom of village kids in it and one ndn lady taught them language in their tipi.

Go fight with the same venom and conviction to actually educate children with the basics forget all extras until we make a mark in that department no?

All of the divisions and opinions of this ages education has continued to divide its efficiency as we added to it and fought about it this far.

Now again I am indigenous, it is not until the masses in these Americas get treated every bit like we have been before this will change.

Find an Indian these days to find out how this plays out for you all. Ignored is what the people are now, just like our cry’s were. Wait for when eating amongst your group is deemed illegal. And I suppose since this age in rebelliousness decided that religion is a no no, they don’t have to take religion from very many.

Indians believe in Creator in Great Spirit in The Great Mystery, if you have problem with a Christian a Jew or a Muslim you will also take an issue with me. We would be fundamentally different and with high probability possibly never be able to see eye to eye nor align. We could compromise should we need but in this instance and circumstances change will only come after thinking critically about what was said today and to refine that or enamel that by action on an individual level is what has to happen beyond that discovery.

P.s. do not use Indians as a bullet for your gun unless you are us and have been taught you will never understand that weight of the Amo you are using and it isn’t yours to use. To use it as a bullet I am beyond upset about. I can only hope you at the very least have a descendant waaaaay back that can be the liaison on your behalf for what you have done here today by trying to use it.

Peace be with you. To all my relations!

🔴⚫️⚪️🟡

🪶🐻🦬🦅

Aho!

Until it's a girl that has had her period. Then she's a "flowered woman" at 11, with no more innocence and is fair game to be married off to a 50 year old man. God bless.

The pervasive cultural hatred of education in the US that caused those bomb threats back then have compounded to the current book-burners of today.

> People absolutely are

Can you show where someone is "absolutely self-identifying as a gold fish", without using right wing sources?

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>How about in this age they focus on one task that they are failing at now such as reading writing and math.

Reading, writing, and math are still all taught. Nobody is replacing these subjects.

History class is in danger, though, because people don't want children to learn history and would rather they learn lies such as "Black people in America were indentured servants" and "Native people and Pilgrims were friends who got along and the Pilgrims taught the Natives their good Christian ways peacefully".

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>Why skip ahead to other concepts beyond understanding if they don’t have the basics to do so.
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>Why skip to teach culture of any kind if they can’t read.

Are you suggesting that having BOOKS about other cultures is stopping children from being able to read?

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>Why skip to teaching sexuality and anything related if I haven’t had a period yet and again have No deducing skills to be able to pick a decent human to share sexual acts with.

The book which was the subject of the bomb threat was not being taught. It was not the focus of any lessons, lectures, or homework. It simply existed in the school. It sat on a shelf in the school. A child who read that book would have to do so on their own time.

Neutrally acknowledging that LGBT+ people exist is not "teaching sexuality". Children in a school might have LGBT+ parents, neighbors, relatives, etc. Insisting that this topic is not allowed to be even mentioned, even in the most simple terms of "this exists," helps nobody.

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>Do you think because this is a structure who by the way the white Christian brought here with them is the only structure.
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>Do you think my culture had a classroom of village kids in it and one ndn lady taught them language in their teepee.

I'm not sure of what you are trying to accuse me of here.

I see the word "book" in the title, seems relevant here.

Ridiculous to even hope for such a thing. This is America, we are full speed ahead towards fascism and have been for quite some time

First paragraph, why in the fuck would you be teaching ANY history again if the babies at eighteen can’t fucking read….

Why is this so hard for you to get. They can’t read they can’t write they can’t critically think about fucking history.

Okay so teach away history and then what 🤣 they fail at yet another class but hey it’s cool they got to learn something they won’t retain and further be confused by. Then with those stats they likely will repeat in history.

Dude I am so done for now got a few appointments.

Experiment time; if you have children, when was the last time you had your child read a story out loud to you. Can they. If they can, could they then tell you what the story was about. If they can, can they then speculate into the contexts future in anyway beyond the story and articulate that to you.

If your children can, consider them blessed. And I will pray for them for their lives amongst the majority of their peers cannot and your child’s life no matter how smart will be difficult because they themselves are not the majority of their generation.

Isn’t like all of American media owned by a handful of rich white men who literally want to watch the world burn

Can concur, was raised Catholic and now have to cope with the massive amounts of trauma/brainwashing inflicted upon me during my formative years

“we need to prove that our identities are valid to the people who want to bomb schools in the name of protecting children” 💀 can you hear yourself?

No no, "books were invented in 2,000(??) BC nearly 4,000 years before the release of Belgian techno anthem, 'Pump Up The Jam.'"

By the FBI... already?

Books are getting dangerous, burn them

I'd be willing to bet a lot of them would happily spend an evening with a sex worker and would completely disregard any of her stated boundaries.

Wait a minute, I think I know this book. Was there also a guy claiming the voice in his head ordered him to kill his son, and then changed its mind?

That definitely sounds like this book!

Wow, it's amazing to see that our LGBTQ community is so strong, and we have this much power to frighten and scare small minds into acts of radical self-immolation.

Perhaps we were always meant to be galvazined into a fighting force, and now that we're getting better armed and better trained, I think we can overrun anyone in our way.

Almost certainly a little Reichstag. Faking bias violence is a cottage industry. Assume Juicy Smoyeh until proven otherwise.

This is gross but teaching children about prostate massage is gross too. That book shouldnt be in school.

People need to learn what a book ban is because theyve obviously forgot.

Its nothing like that and shouldnt be compared.

This particular book talks about prostate massage among other things. People that dont want their children seeing that stuff arent crazy or FaSciSt.

We did it Patrick! We saved America!

/s

To clarify and expanding on other responses you got, same as a recovering alcoholic or drug addict, with the difference that I did not choose to be a catholic, it was just the culture I was born ( Spain ) there are wounds that are inflicted as a child, indoctrination, with feelings of guilt and shame for things that are out of one control.

Like your gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race.

The wounds eventually heal but the scars, I will carry to my grave as a reminder that when some people say " think of the children " or " is a slippery slope " they don't mean what you think and they don't have your best interest in mind, just follow the money and you will see what I mean.

We as a society have to make the most urgent effort to get ANY flavor of organized religion as far away from children and schools as possible, and I am not only referring to any of the offshoots of the abrahamic death cult, whether is christianity, muslim or jewish. They pray on ignorance ( hence their insistence of controlling the Education system ) banning books or worse burning them and the people who wrote them as well.

So yes recovering catholic is a very appropriate description for many of us that survived.

No, you’ve got it all wrong. They want to protect the children so badly that they will threaten to blow them all up to keep them safe from the dangerous ideas of checks notes existing!

This is my town. It’s just crazy the amount of culture war crap here. People need to get out of town and see people who might not be be cis het and white.

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We still have countries where child brides are a common occurrence. I wish the innocence children was actually sacred.

Aside from the most insane reason to ever protest a book.

The school board should have reviewed the book first hand. it’s a book for adults. If they have an adult section for 18+ students great. The book even mentions hey this stuff is 18+. Like ohhh telling kids how to download Grindr on page 155. It also says hey you need to be +18 an adult. But I mean kids bring cards against humanity to the lunch room anyway.

Nailed it.

Well, in the States you guys call them Y’all Quaeda or the Texas Taliban.

Up here in Canada, we just call them the Timbit Taliban.

Do you know who it is? It did not say in the article or any of the others I read online.

It’s the inherent spirit of Walmart brand electronics.

The Bible and its followers genuinely confuse me. I had to copy a lot of pages as a child [small Catholic school in the 90s, me with ADHD, nuns needing to punish] and had a good grasp on the material from a young age. So the first time someone told me abortion was about killing babies and against God's will my immediate response was a confused "I mean, not really? The Christian god kills a ton of children, babies, and pregnant people in the Bible." He specifically targeted them at multiple points!

But then I hear "well, when Jesus died it made a new convenant".

Okay, neat. Then why are you quoting Leviticus?

[Also the Bible was quite clearly written by multiple sources, translated and edited multiple times, and is kind of obviously drawing from shared myths and legends of the various regions that have been attributed to multiple deities] ["a great flood" oh gee, never heard that one before]

Oddly enough, there's so many restrictions on what kinds of books prisoners are allowed to have that the prison library might suit them to a T.

PSA Donate books from the approved list to prison libraries. A good percentage of the prison population is incarcerated for non-violent crimes, and they're bored. They actually like getting books for older kids/teens because many prisoners are starting on a lower reading level. Old textbooks too.

This book is Gay is not a good example and has caught flack from gays as being unrealistic and lacking useful information. And of course, young people are reading it because the stick-up-the-ass Republicans are trying to ban it.

In any case, I'm still trying to figure out how including Rosa Parks violating the law that required a Black person to give up their seat to a white person in a history book is "dangerous" and "woke". The only chance Republicans have to win in 2024 is to push through as many voter suppression laws as they can.

They're comparing the hatred of black people and culture to the hatred of gay people and culture. I'd say it's an apt comparison, even if it doesn't line up 100%.

Wow that’s interesting thanks. This person can be the exception though, I’d want them to have a “special” list of approved books haha

People who use violence or threats of violence to further their agenda are terrorists, and I think almost everyone would agree, including the people who support the removal of these books.

It's not by being terrorists or by using bomb threats, come on. The rhetoric and hysteria in here is ridiculous...

Well, billions of years ago the earth was a molten mass…

But in 2016 we had a sentient, angry blob of grease become president and all the people who secretly wanted to turn the country into the fourth reich felt they didn’t have to be so secret about it anymore.

This particular book talks about prostate massage among other things.
People that dont want their children seeing that stuff arent crazy or
FaSciSt.
It has nothing to do with homophobia.
Its not a apt comparison.

I'd like to think that she'd say "2,000 open parentheses question mark question mark end parentheses BC"

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That's great. The book isn't advertised for children, it's advertised for teenagers and adults.

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Well, if it quacks like a duck...

> In any case, I'm still trying to figure out how including Rosa Parks violating the law that required a Black person to give up their seat to a white person in a history book is "dangerous" and "woke".

In a recent court case...

> “DeSantis' lawyers were forced by the court to define "woke." The lead lawyer described it as "The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them."

So "it's not fair that black people have to go to back of the bus" is right about on. Of course they'd typically rather not say that part out loud and would rather motte-and-bailey fallacy it.

Best case, these nutters chill out. Worst case, we get a dystopian Equilibrium future and that's not so bad, gunkata!

Look, if God didn't want people milking the prostate he shouldn't have put the male g-spot there.

Literally no reason to be in school libraries.

> I do however believe I would have some type of feelings if a school wanted to distribute books to my elementary aged child about any sex straight gay or otherwise.

The thing is, it's everywhere in society because we're the majority.

Do your children know that sometimes men and women get married? Congratulations they've received straight indoctrination.

And if you're thinking, that doesn't count? Well, neither does most of the shit Republicans are freaking out about lately.