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Guest Column: The Real ‘Hostility’ In America’s ‘Book Banning’ Debate
Protecting children from obscenity is not discriminatory …
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I love how the narrative gets pushed to evil books that mention a ding dong somewhere in them when they are out banning letters penned by MLK Jr, or books that mention anything about slavery that doesn’t somehow attempt to paint it in a good light.
It’s a shame conservatives don’t think the Great Replacement nonsense is obscene.
Were that your strawman argument were true…
The author correctly states that this is not a “banning” issue, rather a determination of what’s appropriate in schools. The falderal about Florida’s “Just Say Gay” and “slavery was a good thing” proves the intentional misstatement of issues and exposes the deliberate move by liberals to shame anyone who disagrees with their opinion – no matter how misguided.
Books are NOT being banned – for every book supposedly “banned” by school boards, you can order a used copy on Amazon for about half price. As an example, one of the books that seems to be getting kicked out of school libraries is “This Book is Gay” (TBIG). TBIG can be had on Amazon for $11.69 (or $6.04 used) so it isn’t BANNED.
TBIG’s own notes say the book is appropriate for grades 10-12 but the Hillsborough County School Board was sued when they voted to remove the book, from all middle schools in Hillsborough County (even after leaving copies in the high school).
Meanwhile the hardback, eBook and audio version of TBIG is readily available from the Hillsborough County Public Library – but the book isn’t in the kids’ section of the library.
The falderal about slavery had nothing to do with books but with a history curriculm, written by African Americans, that accurately pointed out that some slaves, as a conditions of their slavery, learned skills that would later allow them to prosper as freedmen.
I’ll give you a historical example of this very idea from right here in South Carolina that occurred DURING the American (un)Civil War – Google Robert Smalls. Since I realize you’re probably too unintellectually curious to look it up, Smalls was a slave who served as the pilot of the CSS Planter, a confederate gunboat. He learned the skill of piloting the craft as a slave.
One night in May of 1862, Smalls smuggled his family and the families of other slave crew members aboard the Planter and headed to freedom out of Charleston Harbor. Upon reaching the Union blockade lines he turned the Planter over to the Union Commander along with info he gained on Charleton’s defense that allowed the Union to seize a key sea island. Smalls served the Union Navy as a pilot and “armed craft commander”. He grew quite wealthy after the war and later go on to be a state senator and US Rep for SC. South Carolina celebrates Robert Smalls Day every May 13.
Just glad these idiots self-owned themselves by
1: Bringing more attention and sales to the books they are trying to “ban”. You are correct, Amazon sales are up for the books they are trying to “ban”.
2: Getting the stupidass bible removed from school libraries for being everything they accuse other banned books of being.
“Conservatives” are rewriting the book on self-owning. They are true masters…lol
People learning a skill that benefits them while enslaved is not justification for slavery. Benefiting from a learned skill is in spite of slavery.
People can learn without the threat of being whipped, beaten, hung or shot. They can learn without being treated as property. They can learn a lot better when they learn how to read and write, something slave owners actively hindered. They can benefit from those skills far better when they are free.
The battered wife doesn’t thank the abusive husband for toughening her up.
The only reason SC celebrates Robert Smalls Day is because the Union won. Confederate SC would have had him executed.
Oh geez.
Making excuses for slavery being “helpful” to slaves is as about as dumb as it gets….but, by all means, keep talking like that.
You Republicans keeping on losing more and more elections is making America great!
Nowhere did I justify or excuse slavery and wow, neither does the Florida curriculum – but feel free to stick to your uninformed belief.
from your post “DURING the American (un)Civil War”. What was “uncivil” about that war? Are you trying to say the war should not have been fought and slavery preserved? Do you want to spread some revisionist history about the war and slavery itself? Perhaps you are an adherent to the “Lost Cause”?
“The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader of the “Lost Cause,” a movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American Civil War. Their work with local governments, education, and schoolchildren created a lasting memory of the Confederate cause, and those generations grew up to be the segregationists of the Jim Crow Era.”
Becky, you can’t keep your kids ignorant and angry forever, no matter how hard you try.
Keep your religion and backwards values at home.
If you feel that as a parent you are being attacked because most mature adults don’t agree with your regressive ways, home school your children. Don’t force your crazy religion on everyone else.
Nobody is forcing their views on you. You just know your religious views can’t stand up to simple scrutiny from school children, when they are provided facts about the World around them.
lol
Gotta love these crazed religious nutters, who claim to love America, use the same arguments that Putin and his government use to discriminate against LGBTQA+ peoples in their backwards, failing country.
Is it a coincidence or on purpose? Where does this Becky woman get her talking points?
As a Godly woman, enjoy follows the Bible, she surely isn’t thinking fur herself, right?
They have straight up pornography at Airport High School. The AHS librarian has total control of it all, and the weak school administration does nothing about it. Pedophilia in plain sight.
Hey man, you can’t just level those claims without giving examples.
Yeah, the Bible is pornography for pedophiles.
Thank for sharing your personal struggles with all that, Todd.
“And, for the record, my district hasn’t banned any books during my tenure; regardless of what some national talking heads may say.”
I guess that depends on what you mean by “banned”. The district did “ban” the book “Between the World and Me” from being taught in an AP Language classroom at Chapin High School.
do a Google search for – between the world and me district five