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This is getting sadder every day
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I'd be willing to bet the people frothing about these books have never read these books.
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Not in Texas, but I have spoken to many of them, and every time they admit that they have not read the books and should not be expected to.
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I wish I could say I was surprised. It's stuff like this that just makes me feel so *tired*.
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For daring to attempt to open young people's minds, something conservatives don't want. People are supposed to be slaves to THEIR beliefs.
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in days without the internet this may work but are they going to ban the Kindle in TX ?? yes in libraries access is easier but take these away and kids with enquiring minds will read them ... is this not against the first amendment ? no authority can suppress speech ?
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Always lovely how the folks who are okay with the government banning books, which is EXACTLY what the 1st A is there to fight, are always claiming 1A rights when they are 'cancelled' for being asshats.
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Stealing these books and distributing them in illegal roaming libraries, would not be a bad thing.
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Summon the Quakers
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We're at the stage of the dystopia where they're banning "The Handmaid's Tale" in schools.
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Of course. That's the end game. Can't have people realising too early.
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They banned SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE?
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If there is a point in your life that you are embodying the bad guys in 1980s musical drama you need to sit down and think about what went wrong.
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Library books helped me survive as a kid. This makes me so sad and angry. 😔
"Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." -Heinrich Heine Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
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We can’t deny it anymore. The US is already in the middle of a Civil Cold War. And there are a lot of people who would be glad to take the Cold part away.
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Like I said, Texans have to decide they are sick of this dictator shit and the 5 million non-voters in 2020 need to register to vote and remove these fucking MAGA GOP'ers from office. Texas is supposed to be a blue state.
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Texas, if I remember right, should only need another million votes across the state. Does the state Democratic party there have a plan for how to get there? This should be extremely doable for a competent state organization.
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Biden only lost the state by a little under 632,000 votes.
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That is so frustrating. So close…
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Yep. And 9 million Texas adult American citizens didn't vote in 2020 out of 30 million total people.
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Who thinks Cristin never read a book? Especially by Vonnegut, Morrison or Atwood?
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Breeding a generation of uninformed, uninquisitive & pliant citizens. It's a lot easier to run with unquestioned power when questioning power isn't a concept you're aware of.
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Sometimes those books end up getting back into students' hands... jaxtoday.org/2024/01/05/b...
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I thought these laws were struck down? Did I mis-read? :(