Florida Now Banning Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

[Revoltingest]

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.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

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.

Religion and conservatism are both terrified by knowledge amongst those who ought to be led and governed by their betters. This is no longer even moderately surprising.

 

[Stevicus]

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.

What do they need words for?

 

[tytlyf]

Reminds me of another regime who burned books 80 years ago.

 

[Bthoth]

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.

What is the political leaning of Florida?


The state is dominated by Republicans on the state level, as Democrats have not held the governorship or either house of the legislature since 1999.

Florida's Book-Banning Crusade Has Found Its Next Target​

Vanity Fair
https://www.vanityfair.com › News › ron desantis



2 days ago — A law signed by Ron DeSantis last year has led one school district to remove three publishers' dictionaries, while another removed classics ...

 

[Revoltingest]

What do they need words for?

Or information.
I wonder if next they'll ban medical
textbooks for explicit words & images.

 

[Stevicus]

Or information.
I wonder if next they'll ban medical
textbooks for explicit words & images.

DeSantis' campaign isn't going well. Perhaps he thinks this will outdo Trump in a race to the bottom.

 

[Bthoth]

DeSantis' campaign isn't going well. Perhaps he thinks this will outdo Trump in a race to the bottom.

The whole party is a mess.

 

[Stevicus]

The whole party is a mess.

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

 

[Heyo]

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.

Freedom of speech was once one of the highest and most protected rights in the US. What happened?

 

[Revoltingest]

Freedom of speech was once one of the highest and most protected rights in the US. What happened?

It's still protected.
But all rights are continually under assault by
various factions, eg, Dems against gun rights,
Pubs against bodily autonomy.
We must be ever vigilant.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Freedom of speech was once one of the highest and most protected rights in the US. What happened?

Lots of Reps and Cons have taken that to mean freedom for me not for the thee, freedom to force my religion on you, free to be an *******, free to have false opinions treated as evidemce based facts, free to do whatever you want and ignore the effects on others and especially to be free of consequences.

 

[Heyo]

Lots of Reps and Cons have taken that to mean freedom for me not for the thee, freedom to force my religion on you, free to be an *******, free to have false opinions treated as evidemce based facts, free to do whatever you want and ignore the effects on others and especially to be free of consequences.

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?

 

[Estro Felino]

Freedom of speech was once one of the highest and most protected rights in the US. What happened?

It's not a problem of freedom of speech, here.
It's about sex. Books about sex.

Whereas in Germany there are the farmers protesting, and the EU is talking about very serious matters. Inflation, energy supply, the war.

 

[Secret Chief]

Reminds me of another regime who burned books 80 years ago.

Yes. Although of course you don't need to go back that long. Or indeed reference another country.

 

[Stevicus]

It's not a problem of freedom of speech, here.
It's about sex. Sex, sex, sex. That's what the US politics is all about.
Do they speak about anything else?
No. They speak of LGBTs, how they have sex, and whether Clinton or Trump had sex.

Whereas in Germany there are the farmers protesting, and the EU is talking about very serious matters. Inflation, energy supply, the war.

If the farmers were Germany were having sex, it would have made the news in the U.S.

 

[Estro Felino]

If the farmers were Germany were having sex, it would made the news in the U.S.

It's a positive thing...it means citizens don't have the same problems as Europe.

We will celebrate when this awful war in Ukraine terminates. It will be international holiday.

 

[Twilight Hue]

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.

WOW!

Just like the Democrats!

Seriously though it's actually a two party problem. Not just Republicans playing the nanny state.

When It Comes to Banning Books, Both Right and Left Are Guilty

The truth is, there is a moral panic on both sides when it comes to books.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Revoltingest]

WOW!

Just like the Democrats!

Seriously though it's actually a two party problem. Not just Republicans playing the nanny state.

When It Comes to Banning Books, Both Right and Left Are Guilty

The truth is, there is a moral panic on both sides when it comes to books.

www.newsweek.com

This is progress.
You actually admit that your
vaunted Magas are like Democrats.

 

[Father Heathen]

It's about sex. Sex, sex, sex. That's what the US politics is all about.
Do they speak about anything else?
No. They speak of LGBTs, how they have sex, and whether Clinton or Trump had sex.

Where do you get this nonsense from?