Florida Now Banning Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

[wellwisher]

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/11/florida-book-ban-schools-lawsuit

Excerpted...
A Florida school district is pulling nearly 2,000 books from its shelves — including some dictionaries and encyclopedias — to make sure they abide by a new state law.

Why it matters: The state law, which prohibits schools from carrying books that describe sexual content, comes as Florida continues to get pushback over its titles banned in prisons and classrooms.

During the 2020 election the Democrats party used Government; Swamp, to censor content on social media, fully biased to their own politics and belief system. This election interference help Biden win, since they got to censor truth like the Hunter Biden laptop. What we see now is sort of a backlash to this underhanded behavior, that has since been halted by the courts; was illegal. Because the Republicans were not invited to the 2020 censorship table, to submit their list to make it fair, now they are submitting their own lists at the state level.

But in the same token, many social problems like the need for abortion, STD's, sexual identity disorders, and single mothers, with problem children, who become a ward of the state or prison, can all be trace back to sex. Sometimes digging up the root is more efficient than pruning, if the goal to solve problems, and not just grow government by creating predictable problems.

For example, would the right to bear arms, accepted by the Right, benefit by gun safety and gun usage education in schools, like we do with sex education, under the assumption this will make the sexual situation better? Or would such acceptance and indulgence by adult teachers make the gun problems worse? Imagine instead of pronouns students are required to recite gun components.

The answer to both are the same. It is more about creating problems since any teen can easily get what they need in the young people grapevine, like they did for thousands of years before liberalism created a problem and then solution that made it worse.

 

[Secret Chief]

During the 2020 election the Democrats party used Government; Swamp, to censor content on social media, fully biased to their own politics and belief system. This election interference help Biden win, since they got to censor truth like the Hunter Biden laptop. What we see now is sort of a backlash to this underhanded behavior, that has since been halted by the courts; was illegal. Because the Republicans were not invited to the 2020 censorship table, to submit their list to make it fair, now they are submitting their own lists at the state level.

But in the same token, many social problems like the need for abortion, STD's, sexual identity disorders, and single mothers, with problem children, who become a ward of the state or prison, can all be trace back to sex. Sometimes digging up the root is more efficient than pruning, if the goal to solve problems, and not just grow government by creating predictable problems.

For example, would the right to bear arms, accepted by the Right, benefit by gun safety and gun usage education in schools, like we do with sex education, under the assumption this will make the sexual situation better? Or would such acceptance and indulgence by adult teachers make the gun problems worse? Imagine instead of pronouns students are required to recite gun components.

The answer to both are the same. It is more about creating problems since any teen can easily get what they need in the young people grapevine, like they did for thousands of years before liberalism created a problem and then solution that made it worse.

Please can you rewrite this so that it makes at least a scintilla of sense? Thanks.

 

[Revoltingest]

Are they gonna take books out of the bible as well because of their sexual content?

Ezekiel 23:20

Of course not.
Religious fundies apply a different standard
towards their own violent sexually explicit scripture.

 

[Revoltingest]

Well yea, if they are banning things.

They both do lust to control the speech of others.
But Floridian idiots lead the charge this month.

 

[Revoltingest]

During the 2020 election the Democrats party used Government; Swamp, to censor content on social media

Yes, Democrats have some hypocrisy to face.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Atleast 1984 isn't banned.

We shouldn't be surprised at this banning because conservatives invented cancel culture. The institutions they support have been doing it for centuries.

That is why it is obvious that this whole cancel culture and culture war nonsense is a manufactured farce by the right.

I see this sort of information control as an extremist tool with this particular version (book banning/burning) favored most often and most vociferously by the right. It is fine for an individual to decide not to read something, but abuse of freedom when that singular view is forced, and capriciously, on all. Age appropriate modifications notwithstanding.

 

[Samael_Khan]

I see this sort of information control as an extremist tool with this particular version (book banning/burning) favored most often and most vociferously by the right. It is fine for an individual to decide not to read something, but abuse of freedom when that singular view is forced, and capriciously, on all. Age appropriate modifications notwithstanding.

Yes. Information control is the first step to serious indoctrination.

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

you'd think it'd be a shoo-in for the Democrats, but...

That's a pretty ominous truth. Look at what it says about the mean character and intelligence of the average American. Of course, this is better understood as two incompatible subcultures of approximately equal size, and looking at them separately is more instructive. It's horrifying that about half of one's neighbors want to transform America into a dictatorship. Believe them when they tell you what they want, what they intend, and what they value.

What is the Democratic Party's agenda?

For a general summary, look at the Preamble to the US Constitution. The present Democratic Party is well represented by Joe Biden, who is summarized in two articles below

Bone Spurs vs Sleepy Joe?

You seem to see these two as equivalent disappointments. What aspect of Joe do you find sleepy? He's intelligent, knowledgeable, decent, tireless, and his accomplishments to date are stellar.

Here's an article emphasizing some of the differences without much mention of Biden's accomplishments
A word to some Republicans out there…

For Biden's accomplishments, here is a nice summary:
My Turn: Biden’s record and accomplishments are extremely positive

 

[Revoltingest]

Well, when they get re-elected it is free of consequences for them.
That's the consequence of tribalism: if your leaders can't do anything wrong, you are stuck with ****ty leaders.
(That also holds for the dems. Bone Spurs vs Sleepy Joe? That's the best you could come up with?

Let's not forget that Biden played the same game
as Trump to avoid the draft. He used asthma
instead of bone spurs.
**** the draft.
Evade it, & be proud of it.

Dodging and deferring: Trump wasn’t the only POTUS to avoid the draft

During their visit to Arlington Cemetery on Inauguration Day, the author of this commentary said he wished Biden and the former presidents who were granted draft deferments during Vietnam thought about those who went in their place.

www.armytimes.com

 

[Shaul]

So, if pornography is already banned from school libraries and it is only pornography that parents can object to,
then why was this law necessary? Did it change anything?

The Florida legislature determined that schools were failing to prevent such materials from making their way in and that parents had a legitimate interest in making sure such materials didn't. It also found there was no established mechanism to remedy the legitimate parental complaints. So the law created a mechanism to address the need. All of which is put forth in the actual legislation. You should try reading the actual law.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Stop calling them book bans

You might as well try ti get people to stop misusing the word theory and term passive aggressive.
It's also a weak and lame tactic ti try to discredit something over mere semantics. I thought the anti-PC crowd didn't do those word games?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The Florida legislature determined that schools were failing to prevent such materials from making their way in and that parents had a legitimate interest in making sure such materials didn't. It also found there was no established mechanism to remedy the legitimate parental complaints. So the law created a mechanism to address the need. All of which is put forth in the actual legislation. You should try reading the actual law.

If they think dictionaries and encyclopedias are pornographic then they have some serious problems.

 

[Shaul]

If they think dictionaries and encyclopedias are pornographic then they have some serious problems.

If "they" who? It was the Librarians that pulled them, no one else.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Of course not.
Religious fundies apply a different standard
towards their own violent sexually explicit scripture.

Yup. Christ makes genocide, infanticide, drunken incest, clinical anger issues, lying, slavery, sex slavery, brutal warfare to kill everything down tothe livestock and horrid repression all ok when it's in the name if Jesus and against those without our specific understanding and interpretation of Christ.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

The Florida legislature determined that schools were failing to prevent such materials from making their way in and that parents had a legitimate interest in making sure such materials didn't. It also found there was no established mechanism to remedy the legitimate parental complaints. So the law created a mechanism to address the need. All of which is put forth in the actual legislation. You should try reading the actual law.

The complaints I suspect were less than legitimate and more of convenience or fear: Parents complaining about sexuality in books are either unwilling to address these issues in their household and want their children to remain ignorant or they are scared by fearmongering politicians weaponizing buzzwords like "woke," "agendas," and, what's that new one? "Transing"?

 

[Shaul]

The complaints I suspect were less than legitimate and more of convenience or fear: Parents complaining about sexuality in books are either unwilling to address these issues in their household and want their children to remain ignorant or they are scared by fearmongering politicians weaponizing buzzwords like "woke," "agendas," and, what's that new one? "Transing"?

Your suppositions are not a sufficient reason to dismiss the rights and responsibilities of parents.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

Your suppositions are not a sufficient reason to dismiss the rights and responsibilities of parents.

The choice of books available in libraries is not the exclusive right and responsibility of a particular subset of parents.

 

[Shaul]

The choice of books available in libraries is not the exclusive right and responsibility of a particular subset of parents.

This law doesn't restrict the process to a particular subset of parents. It is open to all parents who don't wish their children to see pornography.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

This law doesn't restrict the process to a particular subset of parents. It is open to all parents who don't wish their children to see pornography.

And apparently no checks against such unreasomable looneyness.

 

[Shaul]

And apparently no checks against such unreasomable looneyness.

All of the submitted forms are reviewed by adjudication. So not only is it not apparent no checks are made, that is flat out wrong.