For years, Florida has been at the vanguard of removing books from school libraries. Florida Republicans, including Governor Ron DeSantis (R), insisted that school librarians were seeking to "groom" children with pornographic materials. Florida's Republican legislature passed — and Ron DeSantis signed — several pieces of legislation that made it easier to take books off the shelves of the state's public schools. This was all seen as smart politics, appealing to parents seeking to protect their children from inappropriate content.
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
    812·
    10 months ago

    The majority of book challenges in the United States came from 11 people.

    I knew it would be few, but it’s very very few.

    • Jaysyn@kbin.social
      43·
      10 months ago

      I’ve actually met one of those 11 scumbags at a Florida school board meeting. Gave my wife & daughter the ick just being in the same room with him. Bigtime Pedo Preacher vibes.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    10 months ago

    How about this? Repeal the whole god damned thing and put the books back on the shelves where they belong.

    And after they’re all put back on the shelves, if people sincerely believe a book should be removed, let them go in front of the school board, or whatever, pay the $100 a whack, and explain in detail which books need to be banned and why. Cite literal pages, illustrations, and/or quotes, and explain why it’s inappropriate.

    Watch how quickly shit like this stops when the people submitting hundreds of frivilous bans at a time when they actually have to have some skin in the game. It’s easy to come up with titles of 2800 books they’ve probably never read; I could probably compile a list like that in an hour. But now let’s see them have to not only cough up the dough for wasting everyone’s time with this frivilous nonsense, but their own time as well not only reading the books but having to stand up there and testify to why it needs to be banned.

  • IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
    21·
    10 months ago

    Anyone remember that lady that was using the book ban in Texas to remove Scholastic books and do away with the book fair and failed to mention that she was employed by Scholastic’s competitor?

    I sure do.

    Neither Brave Books nor Burkhardt disclosed that Burkhardt is an employee of Brave Books

    That’s always the fun thing about any law, but especially of really stupid ones. Give people and inch and they will abuse the fuck out of anything for their own gains.

  • Aesculapius@kbin.social
    4·
    10 months ago

    The wheels of democracy turn slowly, but they do turn. Should it have gotten anywhere close to this far? Hell no. But this does bring me some very very cautious optimism.