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Rightwing groups across US push new bans to limit ‘obscene’ books in libraries
(www.theguardian.com)
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Are these the ones with blowjobs and things?
Is it not considered pornographic, and if not where do we draw the line, is anything with LGBT in the title fair game?
Why do they care so much about libraries. it's not like they or their kids read. How do you get illiterate people excited to ban books. It's a god damn conspiracy!
so they are banning the Bible because of the obscene material in it?;
Lol no
only one thing for it. Put as much indecent material in the library as possible. Also I used to work at a library and every now and then this like 80 year old dude would come in and say "show me where your dirty books are!" that guy was awesome.
Right wings lie bout wanting freedom of speech. They just want to sprout racist stuff and other phobic stuff. They treat LGBT like it's a fetish.
It is a fetish for most of them.
That country is so fucking stupid its unbelievable
"Bu-but the right wingers promised me that I could say the hard-R N-word yet again, and if people were to call me 'racist' for it they'd be jailed for defamation, and they'd also jail feminist video game critics for censoring games!"
Surely the free speech absolutists will be staunchly opposed. Why, if they weren't, one could think it was never about free speech and always just about hate...
The "free speech absolutists" just wanted to call black people the N-word, they don't actually care about the rest.
The "free speech absolutists" just wanted to call black people the N-word,
They are able to say it already (and they still do amongst themselves).
What they wanted is to be able to say it in public without consequences.
And I hope they try
Obscene books like the Bible?
So more wasting tax money for posturing and campaigning and not solving any actual problems
This isn't posturing, it's having a direct impact on the education of children in this country. This is them creating more problems.
I'd call it "wasting tax money perpetuating culture wars as a distraction from the class war; while also making the population dumber, and less inclined to resist feudalism."
Please support your local library. Even if you just get a card and keep it active, it helps with stats that they use to get more funding.
probably direct support with your time and funding is a good idea, if you can. it certainly looks like federal grants are going away ☹️
How do they know something is obscene? None of them know how to read.
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I heard there's one book in there that talks about a pair of sisters who get their father drunk so they can take turns raping him. Are they banning that one?
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