Van any time you have dipped your toe in the political waters I have cut it off which I will do again gladly. Don't talk so stupid, I mean it // reflects really poorly on you and this site.
There is no reason to be ignorant.
I don't doubt there are some gender bending books that do not belong in public schools libraries. But the zeal to take down other books is a warning to us all about NAZI behavior.
And Trump is a Nazi.
Many good picks have been swept up in the Republican's zeal to whitewash America:
The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
An illustrated adaptation of The Diary of a Young Girl was banned from a high school library in Florida because, critics bizarrely claimed, it minimized the Holocaust and—perhaps more important—captured a young girl’s thoughts about other female bodies. A county chapter chair of the far-right group Moms for Liberty led the charge for removal over its “sexually explicit” material.
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The director of a Florida police uniontargetedthis book about a Black boy killed by police. “Our members feel that this book is propaganda that pushes an inaccurate and absurd stereotype of police officers in America,” he wrote. Further use of the book was paused in a classroom in Broward County.
Mausby Art Spiegelman
In January 2022, a Tennessee school board voted unanimously to ban this Pulitzer-winning graphic novel from its eighth grade curriculum. The book depicts Holocaust victims as mice and Nazis as cats. One board member took offense at illustrations of naked mice in the book. “All the way through this literature we expose these kids to nakedness, we expose them to vulgarity.… If I was trying to indoctrinate somebody’s kids, this is how I would do it,” hesaid.
2023: 'Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream' by H.G. Buzz' Bissinger
An Iowa school district recently used ChatGPT to screen and ban 19 book titles in compliance with a state law requiring that books in school libraries be "age appropriate" and free of any "descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act,"Popular Sciencesaid. One of the 19 books initially tagged was Buzz Bissinger's 1990 novel "Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream." The ban was short-lived, though, as the school district backtracked after major backlash. Before the reversal, Bissinger called the use of AI to ban his book "pathetic," adding that whoever made that decision was a "complete idiot" and "a danger," he said to The Gazette. But Bridgette Exman, Mason City School District's assistant superintendent, defended the school's use of AI, telling the outlet, "it is simply not feasible to read every book and filter for these new requirements." <-- not if your dumb as hell! lol
2023: 'Shopgirl' by Steve Martin
Comedian Steve Martin recently joined the ranks of authors responding to their books being banned. "So proud to have my book 'Shopgirl' banned in Collier County, Florida!" Martin said onInstagram. "Now, people who want to read it will have to buy a copy!" According to a recentPEN Americareport, his 2000 novella, which was turned into a film of the same name, was among over 300 titles banned in the county's public school libraries. The books were removed in compliance with Florida’s HB 1069 law, which gave school boards more oversight over library collections and validated complaints against content that "depicts or describes sexual conduct."
2024: 'Carrie,' 'It,' 'The Gunslinger' and more by Stephen King
Stephen King had some choice words after he realized several of his books had fallen victim to Florida's book ban law. "Florida has banned 23 pf [sic] my books. What the f**k?" the author wrote in a post on X. King's novels got caught in the wave of Florida's House Bill 1069, which Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed into law in 2022 after several complaints from Moms for Liberty. The law, which went into effect July 2023, targets books with anything that can be construed as "sexual conduct" and has forced hundreds of novels, including "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain and "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank to be removed from elementary, middle and high school libraries. In August,six major book publishers banned together with parents and authors to sue the state of Florida over the law that they argue violates First Amendment rights to free speech. The lawsuit challenges a portion of the bill that requires school districts to remove a book that "depicts or describes sexual content" or is "pornographic."
There is no reason to be ignorant.
I don't doubt there are some gender bending books that do not belong in public schools libraries. But the zeal to take down other books is a warning to us all about NAZI behavior.
And Trump is a Nazi.
Many good picks have been swept up in the Republican's zeal to whitewash America:
The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
An illustrated adaptation of The Diary of a Young Girl was banned from a high school library in Florida because, critics bizarrely claimed, it minimized the Holocaust and—perhaps more important—captured a young girl’s thoughts about other female bodies. A county chapter chair of the far-right group Moms for Liberty led the charge for removal over its “sexually explicit” material.
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The director of a Florida police uniontargetedthis book about a Black boy killed by police. “Our members feel that this book is propaganda that pushes an inaccurate and absurd stereotype of police officers in America,” he wrote. Further use of the book was paused in a classroom in Broward County.
Mausby Art Spiegelman
In January 2022, a Tennessee school board voted unanimously to ban this Pulitzer-winning graphic novel from its eighth grade curriculum. The book depicts Holocaust victims as mice and Nazis as cats. One board member took offense at illustrations of naked mice in the book. “All the way through this literature we expose these kids to nakedness, we expose them to vulgarity.… If I was trying to indoctrinate somebody’s kids, this is how I would do it,” hesaid.
2023: 'Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream' by H.G. Buzz' Bissinger
An Iowa school district recently used ChatGPT to screen and ban 19 book titles in compliance with a state law requiring that books in school libraries be "age appropriate" and free of any "descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act,"Popular Sciencesaid. One of the 19 books initially tagged was Buzz Bissinger's 1990 novel "Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream." The ban was short-lived, though, as the school district backtracked after major backlash. Before the reversal, Bissinger called the use of AI to ban his book "pathetic," adding that whoever made that decision was a "complete idiot" and "a danger," he said to The Gazette. But Bridgette Exman, Mason City School District's assistant superintendent, defended the school's use of AI, telling the outlet, "it is simply not feasible to read every book and filter for these new requirements." <-- not if your dumb as hell! lol
2023: 'Shopgirl' by Steve Martin
Comedian Steve Martin recently joined the ranks of authors responding to their books being banned. "So proud to have my book 'Shopgirl' banned in Collier County, Florida!" Martin said onInstagram. "Now, people who want to read it will have to buy a copy!" According to a recentPEN Americareport, his 2000 novella, which was turned into a film of the same name, was among over 300 titles banned in the county's public school libraries. The books were removed in compliance with Florida’s HB 1069 law, which gave school boards more oversight over library collections and validated complaints against content that "depicts or describes sexual conduct."
2024: 'Carrie,' 'It,' 'The Gunslinger' and more by Stephen King
Stephen King had some choice words after he realized several of his books had fallen victim to Florida's book ban law. "Florida has banned 23 pf [sic] my books. What the f**k?" the author wrote in a post on X. King's novels got caught in the wave of Florida's House Bill 1069, which Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed into law in 2022 after several complaints from Moms for Liberty. The law, which went into effect July 2023, targets books with anything that can be construed as "sexual conduct" and has forced hundreds of novels, including "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain and "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank to be removed from elementary, middle and high school libraries. In August,six major book publishers banned together with parents and authors to sue the state of Florida over the law that they argue violates First Amendment rights to free speech. The lawsuit challenges a portion of the bill that requires school districts to remove a book that "depicts or describes sexual content" or is "pornographic."
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