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by Eumenes 1131 days ago
One point of outrage I've seen is about this Florida law passed last year that said schools need to have an online catalog of the books found within the school library, have a public notice period for comment for any book being added to the library, a 30 day grace period for after the book is introduced for a parent to make a formal complaint, a form to make a complaint about an existing book, and banned pornography ... why do so many people take offense with this very democratic process?
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> why do so many people take offense with this very democratic process?

The words written for a law aren't how the law is actually implemented. Law isn't code. The group in power, in this case people who want to limit how LGBTQ people live, will write a perfectly reasonable law, and then only apply that law to cases that they personally believe in. In other cases, such as if you were to complain about the bible being lewd, they would state some exception for it and ignore your request. This "perfectly democratic" law is, in fact, used in a non-democratic way!