The examples earlier in the thread also included a book that showed a drawing of a naked boy running down the street. That's "sexual" to you?
Sorry, I laughed when I read the word "most". LOL
Exactly. "Liberty for ME, but not for THEE." Same old story for the hypocrites. Scream about freedom and rights but are only concerned for their own.
It’s not all about banning books. It’s also about whitewashing history. Slavery was good for Afro Americans right?
Examples were given. Just not good or convincing ones.
As I said earlier if you want to show your kids porn, then do it at home.
I have to respectfully say that I disagree with the premise of your entire post. To suggest that what we consume today with our eyes (or ears for that matter) has no effect on our future selves is false. If this were true, advertising (just as one easy example) would have zero effect on the choices people make. I believe what we see, read, and hear has a profound effect on what we think, what we say, and what we believe. You say you don’t believe the Bible nor the Koran are non-fiction. That’s cool. Maybe I don’t either. But is it possible that somewhere along the line something you were told or something you read (or the aggregate of multiple things over and over) made you decide to only believe in that which is provable? (Not trying to speak for you and imply that’s what you believe, just wondering out loud.)
Pornography is in the eye of the beholder, of course, but to some people, teaching history is being swept up in the same category as [what you consider] porn.
This is not the flex you think it is.
So well said!
Such laughable nonsense. Because that's OBVIOUSLY what is currently being done in schools across America.
What, may I ask, is the "flex [ I ] think it is?"
My guess is that you are currently rethinking that right now. So it would be premature of me to respond so quickly.
You're 0 for 2 right now.
It’s called manipulation and influencing. It doesn’t need to exist for people to form their own opinion of what is right or wrong. We have morons with power attempting to substitute for mindful thinking
There is a vast difference between school library books curated by a librarian who is educated and trained in the process and untrained school board members, parents, "concerned citizens" and legislators making those decisions. The latter entities are the ones who are removing books from school libraries. Banning them from being read/checked out by the students in that library. If a book is removed from a library where it had previously been chosen by a librarian trained in selection for a specific age group, what else would you call it?
Your flex of including your property tax and corresponding school tax payments in your post did not add any weight to your argument. You could move the decimal points in your figures to the left and the person paying these new amounts will get just as many votes as you. In fact, I would submit that when trying to convince other people to have a similar opinion to your own, you might try pointing out what makes you *more* like them, not less. Your property tax payment (if this applies to your residence and not a commercial or industrial property) is substantially higher than most people in this country, or most any country for that matter. Including those numbers in your post only serves to remind many who read it that they’re dissimilar to you. Therefore the reader has a further distance to travel to get to where you’re currently standing. Just an all around bad strategy on your part here.
I think they were merely stating that they had a financial interest in the equation.
