Yeah, and after I found out it was a show in that particular instance, I also said I stand corrected.
Also, I live in the county in Florida that is challenging/banning books at a faster rate than anywhere else in the country. That shit is happening whether you want to believe it or not, I see the immediate effect in the public schools.
Christian Nationalism is a threat to real liberty and that’s what we are going to get electing Trump.
Have you read Project 2025? It’s disturbing.
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Lock, stock, and barrel. JFC.
add: to be clear, I am saying you are 100% propagandized
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JFC, are you not paying attention at all to who is advising the Trump campaign? Or where the authors of that came from.
Keep believing you aren’t a moron at this point.
Do you think book challenges/bannings aren’t happening? Do you truly believe Trump isn’t being played for a fool by others (including JD Vance)?
What in his history makes you think he is remotely competent to be commander-in-chief?
Name calling.
Always the final resort of the weak minded.
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I don’t believe in god, I have a 5 year old in public school and I’m pretty appalled by some of the content in books being questioned or banned around the country.
Which banned or challenged books do you specifically take issue with?
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Outside of outright smut for minors, all of them. Book challenges are championed by low IQ people.
You implied I was as much already.
You’re again regurgitating general sentiment but can you try to be objective? So far challenges I’ve seen have been pretty smutty.
What are some titles that have been banned, or challenged, that you feel shouldn’t be?
A complete list isn’t necessary. Just your top 3 would be fine.
Which books were banned by what body of government?
Looking for Alaska I read it, there is nothing wrong with this book
Kite Runner - challenged more than yearly - again, nothing wrong with that book.
1984 - probably challenged because it’s feeling a bit to relatable.
Nothing on this list is worthy of banning:
Above link is this year. Banned in spite of recommendations to keep 2 of the three.
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See link from august of this year. Banned by the school board because of the Stop W.O.K.E. and Parental Rights Law, rebranded as the “individual freedom act” (which all it does is pretty much exactly opposite that).
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In other words, public schools are selective about what the books they will supply the student body with, as public schools always have been.
Nobody’s education is in crisis because they aren’t being assigned This Book is Gay at school. I don’t understand why Slaughterhouse Five is on there along with some others, but these are the kind of things that are relatively easy to fix at the local and state level.
If my kid wanted to read Slaughterhouse Five I’d get him a copy without needing anyone from the government to help me.
It is okay to be concerned by this, but it is asinine to suggest it presents the same level of concern to an average parent as the school guiding their daughter into a transgender identity and testosterone treatment without parental knowledge or approval.
Similarly, flooding the school district with children who do not speak the language, do not know the culture and are exempt from behavior and academic performance standards has been nothing short of a disaster for my school district. Our spend is now among the highest in the nation while our measurable outcomes are among the worst in the nation
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This I agree with.
Except it’s not the schools making the decisions, it’s ultra-conservative parents raising a stink and elected officials bending to pressure from those morons.
Even Governor DeSantis felt that book banning was getting out of control.
He wrote a law that allowed citizens to challenge books. Then he had to amend the law to limit the amount of challenges citizens could make.
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I haven’t read all of these books but did enjoy Kite Runner and Water for elephants. However, the theme of anal rape in Kite Runner seems a bit much to be introducing to minors, especially in an academic setting. And this would extrapolate to a number of books on the list.
I’m admittedly having a hard time remembering anything overtly gross in Water For Elephants and would be curious to hear arguments.
But, regarding anal rape and sexuality in general, do you think it would be appropriate to find some kids on a playground and begin discussing sexual subjugation via forced anal with them?
It may very well be getting out of control, but again, what are the consequences?
Silly arguments at school board meetings and parents forking over $8 to make sure their kid has whatever weird book they probably don’t want to read anyway? A lack of familiarity with Vonnegut as you go into college?
These are all easily solvable and exactly the kind of petty, inconsequential discussions that should be hashed out among locals.
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No, but I do think this is appropriate in a controlled academic setting, discussing atrocities that actually do happen out in the world. If we want fully functioning adults with only a high school education, these things should be discussed. Many 16-17 year olds I know are more then capable of having a mature discussion about sensitive topics.
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Yawn… what douche alt account are you?
What data are you using to rate age appropriate exposure? Do you have kids?
What academic value does discussion of anal rape provide and where does a school’s scope in teaching “the world” vs academic topics begin and end for you?