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Imagine being so fucked up that you yearn for information gatekeepers.
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It isn’t just him – it is the entire left that thinks that way. The itch to censor is written in their DNA.
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And leaving aside the liberal bias, there’s never much discussion about how much media is concentrated in NYC and how that affects coverage.
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The elite classes always want to control what the peasants are allowed to know.
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The itch to censor is written in their DNA.
Really? Have any of you been following Florida?
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Yes, but have you?
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Yes, declining to include gay porn in elementary education is exactly the same magnitude as giving marching orders to social media to censor your ideological adversaries.
jfc
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I have McWing, and I’m shocked that you seem to see FL’s censorship (I guess I thought you were a Libertarian) differently than I do. Book banning, education restrictions on free speech, a war with Disney, women, history, guns and immigrants, etc etc……………is that either conservative or libertarian? I’m confused I guess!
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To my knowledge, the government of Florida has not censored any book, nor could it do so legally anyway ergo, all literature is currently legal in Florida. There is an ability for parents to challenge and appeal for removal of certain texts and curricula, but as you know, those texts are still available in the local library, often in the local school library. Obviously, we both agree that is not censorship, that is school districts being controlled by the parents who have children in school. I don’t get why that is bad? If parents in school districts want their kids to see gay crush porn videos, or Stalin speeches or have Dad Kapital on their reading lists, more power to them. Local control is what we all should support and I’ll be flabbergasted if you believe that’s bad.
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lms:
I’m confused I guess!
Yes, you are. Very.
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I don’t get why that is bad? If parents in school districts want their kids to see gay crush porn videos, or Stalin speeches or have Dad Kapital on their reading lists, more power to them.
Is there a reason you changed the parameters? Do you have some kind of proof I haven’t seen that teachesr in FL are showing gay porn videos? When was the last time a child in middle school or high school saw a Stalin video, if there even is such a thing, was taught that he was a hero? I remember reading the “Diary of Anne Frank” as a teenager and being profoundly moved………….I think that’s one of the banned books.
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I wrote, as you know, that school curricula should mainly be decided by the parents of the children attending. My point is that if a school districts parents want their kids to learn, say, Chinese history, that’s their business and good for them for being involved. If they don’t want discussions of trannies before, say, grade 6, fine. If they want their kids to be Nazi’s and learn about joys of socialism, well – it’s their choice. Local control and all that. Just as I don’t object to a district in Provo teaching their kids Mormonism, I don’t mind a district teaching trannism if that’s their choice. The point being, it’s their choice, their kids and if they want to be involved, why shouldn’t that be celebrated?
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lms:
I remember reading the “Diary of Anne Frank” as a teenager and being profoundly moved………….I think that’s one of the banned books.
There is zero chance it has been removed from schools, much less actually banned. Your are such an easy mark.
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I was curious where this notion that The Diary of Anne Frank had been “banned” came from, so I did a little research. It appears (as I intuitively knew) that the book has most definitively not been “banned” or even removed from public schools in Florida, or even the single school about which the actual story revolves. What got removed from from a single high school (Vero Beach) was a “Graphic Adaptation” of the book, ie essentially a picture book. The objection raised by a parent (ie not the Florida state government) was that it included “sexually explicit” pictures of nude female bodies.
Notably, the same parent objected to, and got removed, three other books because they had illustrations depicting students carrying guns in a classroom, and “ With recent school shootings in mind, Pippin said, the books were inappropriate.” Odd that this fact doesn’t make the cut when the leftist mob is braying about Florida “banning books”.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2023/04/07/anne-frank-book-pulled-from-florida-library/11622644002/
It is interesting to me that anyone actually believed it was plausible that the Diary of Anne Frank was being “banned” by conservatives when I knew immediately, even without knowing anything about the details, that such a claim must be false on its face. I think this is another demonstration of the phenomenon Jonathon Haidt described in his book The Righteous Mind, specifically the inability of people on the left (and it was distinct to people on the left) to accurately understand and characterize what people on the right think. People on the left seem to genuinely believe those of us on the right to be what are in fact utter caricatures, and so they are weirdly susceptible to believing the most insane propaganda about the right. (Their credulity of the Great Russian Collusion Hoax is another good example.)
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BTW, I have about 10 or 15 sites that discuss the book banning in FL……………I hesitate to link them because I know you will all just denigrate the source. I would suggest you do your own research……………..Our Conservatives are supporting the deep state that doesn’t exist, the use of firearms to solve our problems, defaulting on the debt, denigrating our immigrants and punishing women…………..good luck with all that!
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Please define the word “banning” as you understand it.
Thanks!
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lms:
BTW, I have about 10 or 15 sites that discuss the book banning in FL
And flat earthers have even more sites that discuss the shape of the earth.
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McWing I’m sorry but I think your example of of teaching kids whatever the parents want is BS. We have educators for a reason………..they’ve been trained in both what to teach and how to teach. I think if parents disagree with the curriculum it might be time to find a private school or home school. All 3 of our children are products of public school, and they learned about REAL history, science, math, and humanity. They’re all very successful, tolerant of their peers who may be different, accepting of people who don’t necessarily look or act like them and support both what their children read and learn as well as the STATE staying out of their business!
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Obviously we disagree as public school curricula should be decided locally, not left to, gag, experts. And I too am an example of public education. It was terrible and I think you’d agree that if I’m a representative sample of public education, than public education should either be abolished or fundamentally reformed.
I’ll compromise, let’s give the money to the kids parents and let them decide where they should go to school. Why is that a problem?
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lms:
McWing I’m sorry but I think your example of of teaching kids whatever the parents want is BS.
And that is precisely why no sane parent should let a progressive anywhere near their own child’s education.
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Technically teachers don’t have that much of a say in most districts—most districts have some version of a curriculum and instruction department that is actually responsible for what is taught, not individual teachers or even schools.
The academics department will be highly responsible to the state department of education, and sometimes regional or county boards. So already a lot of people who aren’t the teacher are deciding what is taught, and how.
And if actually makes sense that the people determining curriculum should at least be partially responsive to what parents want out of an education. Public education does not exist for its own sake, but to service a perceived need for the community—specifically the parents, who would like to see their children educated, hopefully better than they could do it at home.
Working in public education myself, I’ll just say I think we’re all doomed. While parents demanding that math and sciences and language be taught before sexual orientations or identity politics is a VERY GOOD THING, IMO, it isn’t enough and won’t ever be nearly enough,
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.they’ve been trained in both what to teach and how to teach.
If test scores were increasing, then the educational establishment might have a bit better point.
but they don’t.
Instead of wondering why Johnny can’t read, they are wondering if johnny should cut off his johnson.
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I interact with a lot of teachers. Most of them are not interested in the sexuality of their students, that’s a boutique concern of the wealthy and the captured youth. Academia and the activist class.
Most teachers are worried about paychecks and what’s the minimum they can do to keep their job, ahead of getting a better job as soon as possible,
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LMS, if the schools went back to the curriculum and books that were being taught in say 2012 during Obama’s first term, none of this would be an issue.
The Republican response is a reaction to what has been pushed in the schools and public libraries, i.e. drag queen story hour and the trans gender ideology.
Parents found out about it during COVID with remote learning and aren’t going to go along with it.
LibsofTickTock became famous or infamous by simply posting what actual teachers (among others) were recording themselves doing.
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“I think this is another demonstration of the phenomenon Jonathon Haidt described in his book The Righteous Mind, specifically the inability of people on the left (and it was distinct to people on the left) to accurately understand and characterize what people on the right think.”
To be fair, if you solely went by the MSM coverage of the issues, you wouldn’t be able to accurately characterize the right either.
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To be fair, if you solely went by the MSM coverage of the issues, you wouldn’t be able to accurately characterize the right either.
Haidt thinks it is because leftists/liberals have a much narrower range of moral values, and so are only able make sense of those who oppose them by assuming the outright rejection of the moral values they hold in high regard, rather than understanding that other moral values are being weighed.
You are right that if one only ever pays attention to the MSM, you can’t accurately characterize the right. But then the fact of only paying attention to the MSM, which is demonstrably dishonest and deceptive, needs an explanation.
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Interesting explanation of what reparations are meant to address.
I draw a distinction between reparations for generalized harm to people who didn’t originally suffer the harm (i.e. paying reparations for slavery to people who were never enslaved) and restitution to individuals for specific bad acts, especially by the government under the color of law.
I think compensating homeowners whose property was seized through eminent domain is legitimate, especially for dubious purposes like “urban renewal”.
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I suspect we are talking about tenants here. So they didn’t suffer any taking.
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Article says they were homeowners. My impression is that they were paid out based on the property being “distressed” even if they didn’t want to sell.
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So it looks like De Santis is going to try and outflank Trump on abortion.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/16/desantis-trump-florida-six-week-abortion-ban-00097154
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It’s ultimately Trump’s own fault, you see.
Imagine dying on this hill.
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Jonah is on the other side now.
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It is sad. He traded whatever integrity he once for a bigger paycheck, I guess.
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Jesus H. Crackers. Jonah is a smart, smart guy. Either this is a huge but sincere, class-induced blind spot and he thinks these words are rational or it’s a strategy to defend a indefensible position.
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I’m just going to say this so you all know where I stand re LGBTQ+ issues. We have family and friends who fit all of the above and we love them all….does that mean I support young children being groomed to be trans, of course not. Does that mean I think schools should just ignore the fact that there are single parents, gay parents, or whatever kind of parents and make young children believe they are outside of the norm………….nope, I don’t believe that either. I think there is an age appropriate discussion of all of this. Banning books is a slippery slope that I doubt most of you support…………….right?
Banning books re the Holocaust, black history, women’s suffrage, our history of civil rights issues is just denying the truth………right?
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Nobody is banning books.
This is nothing more than a pissing contest between woke educational governmental bureaucrats and a governor.
Wake me up when DeSantis takes legal measures to stop McGraw-Hill from publishing any particular books.
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Hah, wake me up when I respond to anything you or Scott has to say!!!
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True. You always remind me why I avoid arguing with women.
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Heyoooo!
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lms (responding to Brent):
Hah, wake me up when I respond to anything you or Scott has to say!!!
Ummm…time to wake up?
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McGraw-Hill is in the business of putting out whatever the state tells them to, as far as textbooks are concerned. If the state demanded all math books discuss polygamous lesbian marriages between racially ambiguous disabled womyn with every math problem, McGraw-Hill would make that book.
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Am I the only one turned in thinking about a textbook like that?
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Banning books re the Holocaust, black history, women’s suffrage, our history of civil rights issues is just denying the truth………right?
Is it your contention that these books are no longer available, legally, in the state of Florida? If not, would you please define what your understanding of the word “banning” means?
Thanks!
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I expect there are books on those topics in Florida school libraries and even in the curriculum.
It’s unlikely that any school system has every book on slavery, the Holocaust, or women’s suffrage, either in their curriculum or in their libraries. So all you have to do is collect a list of all books on a topic not included in the curriculum (you could make California look like MAGA country, taking this approach) and list them as evidence of what a bunch of troglodyte mouth-breathers those SCARY OTHERS WHO AREN’T LIKE US are.
A huge number of books on the list provided should not, IMO, be in any school library or in their curriculum.
Which bring up something else—I’m positive that list includes books removed from curriculum, not just removed school libraries. This is universal and will often reflect classic and beloved titles being removed … because they aren’t what gets to be part of the curriculum this year. Guarantee you it happens every year in almost every state. It’s not the result of crazed right-wing censors, just decisions about what is included in a limited curriculum space.
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Hah, here’s the short list of books banned in FL schools, I don’t even have time or the will power to check them out………………maybe there are some that should be on the list but I kind of doubt they all should be……………
here’s a list of books banned in Florida’s school districts since July 2022, according to PEN America. Among them, you’ll find titles by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, satirical novelist Kurt Vonnegut, and prominent author and poet Margaret Atwood.
Brevard County
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
I Never by Laura Hopper
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold
Broward County
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss
Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn
It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
Melissa (George) by Alex Gino
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman
Clay County
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Alt Ed by Catherine Atkins
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
Breathless by Jennifer Niven
Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Embrace by Jessica Shirvington
Fable by Adrienne Young
Fade by Lisa McMann
Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Flamer by Mike Curato
Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
Is He a Girl? by Loius Sachar
Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human (A Graphic Novel) by Erika Moen
Light It Up by Kekla Magoon
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Love Lies Beneath by Ellen Hopkins
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe by Preston Norton
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
Novels for Students, Vol. 9: Presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels by Deborah A. Stanley
Ramona Blue Julie Murphy
Ready or Not by Meg Cabot
Rumble by Ellen Hopkins
Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
Shine by Lauren Myracle
Someday by David Levithan
Stained by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Haters by Jesse Andrews
The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
ttyl by Lauren Myracle
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
We Are Not Your Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
Woke: A Young Poets Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne
Yolk Choi by H.K. Mary
Escambia County
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell
Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Beautiful by Amy Reed
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
Black Brother, Black Brother Parker by Jewell Rhodes
Black Girl Unlimited: the Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard by Echo Brown
Born Ready: the True Story of a Boy Named Penelope by Jodie Patterson
Boy Girl Boy by Ron Koertge
Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
Boy2Girl by Terence Blacker
Breathless by Jennifer Niven
Bumped by Megan McCafferty
Burned (EH) by Ellen Hopkins
Chosen by P.C. Cast
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Deogratias: a Tale of Rwanda by Jean-Philippe Stassen
Dime by E.R. Frank
Doing It!: Let’s Talk About Sex by Hannah Witton
Drama: a Graphic Novel by Raina Telgemeier
Draw Me a Star by Eric Carle
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Empire of Storms by Sarah J.Maas
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fade by Lisa McMann
Finding Cinderella by Colleen Hoover
Forever… by Judy Blume
Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin
From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Girl in Pieces Glasgow, Kathleen
GLBTQ*: the Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens by Kelly Huegel
Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Grit by Gillian French
Ground Zero by Alan Gratz
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
Guyaholic by Carolyn Mackler
Hear These Voices: Youth at the Edge of the Millennium by Anthony Allison
Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
I Never by Laura Hopper
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
Infandous by Elana K. Arnold
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Jesus Land: a Memoir by Julia Scheeres
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout
l8r, g8r by Lauren Myracle
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles
Lexicon by Max Barry
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Lush by Natasha Friend
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Melissa (George) by Alex Gino
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe by Preston Norton
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
Push by Sapphire
Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager
Race and Policing in Modern America by Duchess Harris
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
Ready or Not by Meg Cabot
Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Rumble by Ellen Hopkins
Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place by Jackson Bird
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Stamped from the Beginning: the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Stella Brings the Family by Miriam B. Schiffer
The 1619 Project: a New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The 57 Bus: a True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Breakaways by Cathy G. Johnson
The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger
The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale: the Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Haters by Jesse Andrews
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle
The Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg
The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
The Truth About Alice: a Novel by Jennifer Mathieu
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho
Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball by Mark Weakland
Where I End and You Begin by Preston Norton
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Yolk Choi by H.K. Mary
Flagler County
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Breathless by Jennifer Niven
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
l8r, g8r by Lauren Myracle
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Push by Sapphire
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Haters by Jesse Andrews
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Hernando County
Burned (EH) by Ellen Hopkins
Collateral by Ellen Hopkins
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
Glass by Ellen Hopkins
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins
Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
Traffick by Ellen Hopkins
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
Highlands County Schools
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Drama: a Graphic Novel by Raina Telgemeier
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything by E. Lockhart
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren’t Complicated, I Wouldn’t Be Ruby Oliver by E. Lockhart
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Lake County
A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
In Our Mothers’ House by Patricia Polacco
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Manatee County
Both Can Be True by Jules Machias
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe
I Am Jazz by Jazz Jennings
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
l8r, g8r by Lauren Myracle
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
Light It Up by Kekla Magoon
Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
My Jim: a Novel by Nancy Rawles
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Protesting Police Violence in Modern America by Duchess Harris
Push by Sapphire
Race and Policing in Modern America by Duchess Harris
Ready or Not by Meg Cabot
Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The 57 Bus: a True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth by Wade Hudson
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
Palm Beach County
Ana on the Edge by A.J. Sass
Anne Frank’s Diary: the Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman
Big Bob, Little Bob by James Howe
Call Me Max by Kyle Lukoff
Calvin by J.R. Ford
Frankie & Bug by Gayle Forman
Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown
Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
I Am Jazz by Jazz Jennings
It Feels Good To Be Yourself: a Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn
Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
Melissa (George) by Alex Gino
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino
My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis
My Rainbow by DeShanna Neal
Pride: the Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders
Rick by Alex Gino
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Pants Project by Cat Clarke
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
St. Lucie Public Schools
Mixed: a Colorful Story by Aree Chung
Red: a Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall
The Breakaways by Cathy G. Johnson
Seminole County Public Schools
10,000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert
Date Rape (At Issue) by Christine Watkins
Deogratias: aTale of Rwanda by Jean-Philippe Stassen
I Am Jazz by Jazz Jennings
Jacob’s New Dress by Sarah Hoffman
Let’s Talk About It: the Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human (A Graphic Novel) by Erika Moen
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Push by Sapphire
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
Volusia County Schools
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
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How, precisely, are these books “banned?”
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Well, they are eliminated from school curricula and sometimes “banned” from school libraries. Which is a ban, in the same sense Hustler magazines are banned from my house. They can be printed and sold and read elsewhere, just not here.
I do find it … a little creepy, how they worry almost exclusively about books with themes of sexuality not being made available for children that are not their own. As of course the books that aren’t in the curriculum are often actually in the school library, and books not in the library are available elsewhere and any concerned parent could acquire them for their child. The books are available—just not in school.
But that’s not good enough, they want to make sure that children not their own can access such sexualized material irrespective of what other parents and often the community at large actually wants.
I dunno. Seems creepy. But it seems to me like once a thing is no longer forbidden, it’s not long before that thing moves from now-permissible to mandatory.
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Creepy indeed!
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Every school system in the country has both limited library space in their buildings and a general goal as to what the library’s exist to accomplish—and also what kind of hassle the school board wants to put up with. By the same principle, every school system has hundreds of thousands of “banned” books.
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How any school district in the US can ban “To Kill a Mockingbird” is abhorrent to me! Such an important piece of work!
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lms:
How any school district in the US can ban “To Kill a Mockingbird” is abhorrent to me! Such an important piece of work!
You keep using that word, “ban”. It doesn’t mean what you apparently think it means.
And interestingly, most modern attempts to “ban” TKAM comes from the racist left. They object to Atticus Finch as a “white savior” and the lack of strong, activist black characters.
https://ncte.org/blog/2020/11/atticus-finch-abraham-lincoln-imagination-white-educators/
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Seems a little excessive to me!
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especially since the left is defining “banned” as “elected not to use”
by that logic, the entire Library of Congress is banned.
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Hah, be careful what you wish for!
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On the other hand:
“A teacher gets in trouble for assigning a “gay book” to teenagers. But NBCNews never tells us what was in the book that was controversial so we can actually know what this was all about, and judge for ourselves. This is not journalism; it’s virtue signaling.”
https://substack.com/profile/12296303-andrew-sullivan/note/c-16231452
“Andrew Sullivan
The Weekly Dish
From what I can see, the book is a lot of fun much of the time, but no teenager needs to be taught about shit-fetishism and other explicit sex practices as part of a public high school education, which is also in the book. That’s what Pornhub is for. It’s just nuts that NBC withholds the actual facts of the story to virtue-signal about “book-banning”.
https://substack.com/profile/12296303-andrew-sullivan/note/c-16234247
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I’m shocked that NBC would do that. Oh how I yearn for the days when there were gatekeepers in the media.
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Back when they strapped explosives on a truck to prove it was unsafe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/02/10/nbc-apologizes-for-staged-crash-settles-with-gm/fe1d1da2-9939-4076-a7e2-8e625d7ddede/
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It was obviously a one off. Mistakes were made and I for one will not condemn our media gatekeeper betters because of one false flag plant!
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Taibbi’s latest, on the Durham report.
https://www.racket.news/p/durham-is-too-late-to-stop-the-madness
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We need more empathy not less, we need more tolerance, not less, and we need fewer guns of mass destruction, less loss of autonomy and misogyny. Conservatives are taking our country back to the 1800’s and it’s not a winning strategy!
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The modern left is authoritarian and utopian. They are the same breed of cat as the fascists, communists, eugenicist progressives and the Jacobins.
They are everything they claim the other side is doing. Which is why they are so hot to disarm the population. And why they will gain zero traction on that.
As bad as Trump was, he goaded the left into letting the mask slip.
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There is a strong desire on the left to make every knee bend for the sake of, well, making sure we all know our place.
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Brent:
They are everything they claim the other side is doing.
Indeed. But many of them can’t even recognize it. They suffer from the greatest lack of self-awareness that I have ever seen.
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lms:
We need more empathy not less
Agreed. Progressives need to develop empathy for people who don’t fit into their traditionally perceived victim classes.
we need more tolerance, not less
Agreed. Progressives need to develop some tolerance for views other than their own, along with the people who express them.
we need fewer guns of mass destruction
What is a “gun of mass destruction”?
less loss of autonomy
Agreed. Progressive support for things like mask mandates and vaccine mandates should never happen again.
and misogyny.
Agreed. Progressive advocacy for the misogyny that is fundamental to trans ideology should end.
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“Conservatives are taking our country back to the 1800’s”
More like the 1950’s, to the extent that they have a coherent strategy to do so.
And as EJ Dionne noted in a prescient article a decade ago, each side has 1950’s nostalgia, just a la carte.
I think that analysis holds up pretty well after ten years.
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