The law goes into effect in just a few weeks and school libraries are scrambling to comply.
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How did it even get in there? And why is it there? Never mind, we know the answer to that.
I spent a lot of time in school libraries when I was growing up. Hell, I loved them so much I used to cut class to go to the library, and I never once saw any material in there with nudity or descriptions of sex. Novels and study material, yes. Smut, no.
Only smut I ever found in the school library was stuff we snuck in. Not that we probably got away with anything.
ReplyDeleteSimple problem: if you make an absolute no exceptions ban, the LGBTQetc can't get around it. "I no longer trust you, so I will give you no choice". If you leave room for judgement (eg, "Roots"), the left will drive through that hole with a semi. As they have done and continue to do. Schools, this is the consequence of your LACK of judgement, indifference to parent concerns, and your outright promotion of people and ideas that the vast majority of your customers find disgusting while failing ever more comprehensively at your primary mission as we define it: teaching reading, writing, and math. Schools and teachers have proven that they are subverting and indoctrinating the kids they 'teach' - and don't deliver what we're paying for. Absolute bans are the only way to re-establish control in the schools. So be it. Better, of course, would be to dismantle the government schools entirely. In the meantime, this is a step forward.
ReplyDeleteNever have read "Roots", but I wouldn't be opposed to it being removed from the school library. Not like the world would be that much worse off were trash fiction from the mid '70s to vanish from the earth.
ReplyDeleteRoots was exposed as complete and udder bullshit about the time the first mini-series came out. Totally made up faux history.
DeleteTHE ACLU & SPLC are ready to take the draconian law to court to get it stricken out. I venture to say if it gets to the SCOTUS they'll knock it down.
ReplyDeleteThey tell you that the Germans burned books.
ReplyDeleteThey never tell you about Magnus Hirschfeld’s child porn collection…
i loved the libraries when i was young,, i can close my eyes even now and still smell them. the stories about the American Indians and the cowboys were my favorite history books. the Vikings and the Greeks and Romans. when i read them it was like i was there at that moment. there were so many great books. to walk through a library now and i would perhaps end up as a footnote in history myself if i was to see any LG- whatever books on a shelf.
ReplyDeletea child's imagination is a wonderful thing. lets please keep it clean.
Thank you.
Delete"... and I never once saw any material in there with nudity or descriptions of sex."
ReplyDeleteKenny, the dove and the vulture fly over the same land, and each one finds what he's looking for.
A library was a place of trust when I was a kid
I haven't dared give my children access to public libraries for the past decade. Every single "promoted" book they have on display is porn. Most of it gay porn.
ReplyDeleteIt's no longer possible to go to the library without being exposed to gay porn. And this is a (fairly) rural, conservative community!