Book Banning

This seems to be the new rage. This is really happening? In the age of the internet

With abortion being taken off the table for the Conservatives they need a new outrage.

The whole thing was planned from the beginning by some guy who attacked CRT by intentionally lying about it over and over again on the TeeVee.

Some people watch the book banning scene in "Field of Dreams" and side with the Eva Braun woman.

fragile white snowflakes are fragile white snowflakes.

they're okay with assault rifles.. but books upset them.

Pretty much a coded dog whistle movement to maintain White (Male) Christian privilege.

ginned up by MSM propaganda.

Texas seems like a scary place these days. Replacing library boards with one that is overwhelming white female Christians is apparently the in thing.

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There is no book banning in the USA.

Another fake leftist outrage.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:fragile white snowflakes are fragile white snowflakes.

they're okay with assault rifles.. but books upset them.

Can't have the white girls reading D.H. Lawrence, They might be having "relations" with African-American sports stars.

RussianQuislingAgent has his head so far up Gov DeSantis ass he can’t hear the FL Governor talk about banning books using Critical Race Theory as the GOP’s 2022 bogeyman

RQA wrote:There is no book banning in the USA.

Another fake leftist outrage.

One can argue about the scale, but there definitively IS book banning in the USA.

it's almost like republicans don't love freedom as much as the claim to and are, really, promoters of fascism..

if only we could've predicted this.

GRR Spartan wrote:RussianQuislingAgent has his head so far up Gov DeSantis ass he can’t hear the FL Governor talk about banning books using Critical Race Theory as the GOP’s 2022 bogeyman

Do you have the titles of the books Gov DeSantis talking about banning? How is he going to accomplish the banning? When will the banning take effect?

Cameron wrote:

RQA wrote:There is no book banning in the USA.

Another fake leftist outrage.

One can argue about the scale, but there definitively IS book banning in the USA.

Nope, no book banning. Just leftists talking about it.

Book banning.

RQA wrote:

Cameron wrote:

One can argue about the scale, but there definitively IS book banning in the USA.

Nope, no book banning.    Just leftists talking about it.  

Hey Cam, here is a link to a nice database of books totally not banned from schools or libraries across the country. Two school districts in Michigan have totally not banned books from classrooms or school libraries, Hudsonville and Novi.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hTs_PB7KuTMBtNMESFEGuK-0abzhNxVv4tgpI5-iKe8/edit#gid=1380530296

DWags wrote:Book banning.

kite runner and brave new world are great books.

DWags wrote:Book banning.

First book mentioned in your link is Allende's The House of Spirits.

It is available on Amazon for $11.25. So......not banned.

The RussianQuislingAgent using false equivalencies again.

That’s his job.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:fragile white snowflakes are fragile white snowflakes.

they're okay with assault rifles.. but books upset them.

Not true. Books make good targets when using your assault rifle.

GRR Spartan wrote:The RussianQuislingAgent using false equivalencies again.

That’s his job.

Did you answer the questions I posed to you in post #12 of this thread? Or are you just going to continue with your leftist outrage about faux book banning?

RQA wrote:

GRR Spartan wrote:The RussianQuislingAgent using false equivalencies again.

That’s his job.

Did you answer the questions I posed to you in post #12 of this thread? Or are you just going to continue with your leftist outrage about faux book banning?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hTs_PB7KuTMBtNMESFEGuK-0abzhNxVv4tgpI5-iKe8/edit#gid=1380530296

I am sure you will move the book banning goalposts or just not respond. It seems like you are going for the former, and I wish you the best of luck.

Turtleneck wrote:

RQA wrote:

Did you answer the questions I posed to you in post #12 of this thread? Or are you just going to continue with your leftist outrage about faux book banning?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hTs_PB7KuTMBtNMESFEGuK-0abzhNxVv4tgpI5-iKe8/edit#gid=1380530296

I am sure you will move the book banning goalposts or just not respond. It seems like you are going for the former, and I wish you the best of luck.

I am sure GRR appreciates your help as he seems unable (most likely) or unable to answer a couple of simple questions relevant to his accusations.

In view of your list, as I have a slow day, I will go through the first ten listed and see if they are actually banned or not. Do you consider that "moving the goalposts" or "not responding"?

First one:  Gender Queer, A memoir.     Available on Amazon for $14.10   so.....not banned.

2.   Beyond Magenta:  Transgender Teens Speak Out.     Available for only 5 bucks on Pango Books.    So.....not banned

3.  The Haters.    Can buy for as little as $2.89 at BookOutlet.      So.....not banned

4-8.    All can be purchased through links on the author's website.        So.....not banned.

9.   This Book is Gay.     On Amazon for $10.58               So.... not banned

10. Crank Less than $5 on Amazon...............so not banned.

RQA wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hTs_PB7KuTMBtNMESFEGuK-0abzhNxVv4tgpI5-iKe8/edit#gid=1380530296

I am sure you will move the book banning goalposts or just not respond. It seems like you are going for the former, and I wish you the best of luck.

I am sure GRR appreciates your help as he seems unable (most likely) or unable to answer a couple of simple questions relevant to his accusations.

In view of your list, as I have a slow day, I will go through the first ten listed and see if they are actually banned or not. Do you consider that "moving the goalposts" or "not responding"?

"not responding" is you not addressing Elon Musk's attempts in the past to squash free speech on social media platforms.

NigelUno wrote:

"not responding" is you not addressing Elon Musk's attempts in the past to squash free speech on social media platforms.

So there is a risk that the new Twitter would be the same as the old Twitter.

RQA wrote:First one:  Gender Queer, A memoir.     Available on Amazon for $14.10   so.....not banned.

2.   Beyond Magenta:  Transgender Teens Speak Out.     Available for only 5 bucks on Pango Books.    So.....not banned

You said there is no book banning in the U.S. As in no books in the U.S., regardless of jurisdiction, have been banned. This is not true. The first two books are banned from classrooms and school libraries in those respective districts. There you go moving the goalposts.

RQA wrote:

NigelUno wrote:

"not responding" is you not addressing Elon Musk's attempts in the past to squash free speech on social media platforms.

So there is a risk that the new Twitter would be the same as the old Twitter.

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
We won't get fooled again.

Turtleneck wrote: The first two books are banned from classrooms and school libraries in those respective districts. There you go moving the goalposts.

Selecting books for inclusion in school libraries and classrooms does not equate to book banning.

If you want your 8 year old to read Gender Queer you are free to purchase a copy.

RQA wrote:

NigelUno wrote:

"not responding" is you not addressing Elon Musk's attempts in the past to squash free speech on social media platforms.

So there is a risk that the new Twitter would be the same as the old Twitter.

But...you were arguing that Elon Musk was all about free speech.

Are you now "moving the goal posts"?

NigelUno wrote:

But...you were arguing that Elon Musk was all about free speech.

Are you now "moving the goal posts"?

Musk is out there advocating to make Twitter a free speech platform. The leftist outrage is that he would do just that.

Now if you want to argue that a Musk owned Twitter will increase content censorship over what there is now, feel free to make that argument. Seems unlikely to me.

If Musk does that he will be justifiably criticized.

Clinging to lies about the results of a free election doesn't mean it was stolen. If you want to believe the lies of a child having a tantrum you're free to move to his gold plated gas station where you can hear about it every day.

RQA wrote:

Turtleneck wrote: The first two books are banned from classrooms and school libraries in those respective districts. There you go moving the goalposts.

Selecting books for inclusion in school libraries and classrooms does not equate to book banning.

If you want your 8 year old to read Gender Queer you are free to purchase a copy.

Interesting wording. The books have been selected for exclusion, not inclusion. Hence, they are banned. You are having another not smart day. Have you tried coffee in the morning?

RQA wrote:

NigelUno wrote:

But...you were arguing that Elon Musk was all about free speech.

Are you now "moving the goal posts"?

Musk is out there advocating to make Twitter a free speech platform. The leftist outrage is that he would do just that.

Now if you want to argue that a Musk owned Twitter will increase content censorship over what there is now, feel free to make that argument. Seems unlikely to me.

If Musk does that he will be justifiably criticized.

Were you outraged when he tried to squash free speech?

Or was he just using free speech to try to squash free speech?

RQA wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hTs_PB7KuTMBtNMESFEGuK-0abzhNxVv4tgpI5-iKe8/edit#gid=1380530296

I am sure you will move the book banning goalposts or just not respond. It seems like you are going for the former, and I wish you the best of luck.

I have a slow day    

You have a lot of those

NigelUno wrote:

Were you outraged when he tried to squash free speech?

I have little fear that Elon Musk could "squash" free speech. So not outraged.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

RQA wrote:

I have a slow day    

You have a lot of those

When you're the boss and hire good people slow days are a sign of success.

RQA wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

You have a lot of those

When you're the boss and hire good people slow days are a sign of success.

I worry rqa, that’s all. I’ve read your posts, I know about all of the economic devastation xiden has wrought on you. Please let us know if you need help

RQA wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

You have a lot of those

When you're the boss and hire good people slow days are a sign of success.

Or complacency and laziness.

The same people that claim guns laws are draconian don't believe that actually book bannings are book bannings. Make it make sense Bob!

RQA wrote:

Turtleneck wrote: The first two books are banned from classrooms and school libraries in those respective districts. There you go moving the goalposts.

Selecting books for inclusion in school libraries and classrooms does not equate to book banning.

If you want your 8 year old to read Gender Queer you are free to purchase a copy.

They're selecting books for exclusion, which is pretty much the key ingredient in banning books. Do you think it's necessary to destroy all copies of a book worldwide in order to ban it from a school or a library?