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by agloeregrets 1247 days ago
Additionally, the content of the book has to pass rather insane content rules, including banning any description or implication of homosexuality. Wildly, they branded it as 'Parents rights' as in: "If I don't want my kid to read X...NOBODY's should". The outcome is an attempt to whitewash out topics that are inconvenient to the agenda at play to protect the agenda long term.

$5 says it just makes teen pregnancy happen at higher rates btw.
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ldh0011 1247 days ago
According to the article

> The law requires that all library books selected be: > 1. Free of pornography and material prohibited under s. 847.012.

s. 847.012. includes...

> (3) A person may not knowingly sell, rent, or loan for monetary consideration to a minor: > (b) Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter however reproduced, or sound recording that *contains* any matter defined in s. 847.001, ...

s. 847.001 includes numerous definitions (including a rather broad "Sexual content") many of which are devoid of exonerating literary context. I think the implication here is that many popular books like the ASOIAF series, many young adult books that I personally read in high school, and many important classics like 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc. that I don't find at all age-inappropriate for a high schooler would all be banned from school libraries. Unless I'm having some grave misunderstanding here Florida has just made it a felony for a high school lit teacher to loan a student a copy of *1984*.

This is absurd puritanical behavior that frankly this makes me frightened for the US.

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froh 1246 days ago
> ~puritanical~

fascist, neo-feudal

FTFY

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nerdponx 1247 days ago
Banning books at the state level should result in revocation of any federal funding allocated for state schools.
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EForEndeavour 1247 days ago
I'm with you in principle, but I worry that this would result in defunding the schools which need the most help: those in the most extremist states willing to accept funding revocation in response to book bans.
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nerdponx 1247 days ago
Good point. The people imposing the book bans don't seem to care about education in the first place, and more likely than not they have some chip on their shoulder about big government anyway.
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Floegipoky 1247 days ago
> $5 says it just makes teen pregnancy happen at higher rates btw.

This is a feature, not a bug.

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