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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by AroundTheWorld, Aug 10, 2024.

  1. AroundTheWorld

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    I like that Harris/Walz are bringing the censorship and book banning issue up during their campaign events.
     
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    The leftists are the ones doing the censoring.
     
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    And your premise has already fallen apart. That didn't take long for you to sabotage your own thread.


    If you’ve been following the news recently, you’ve likely seen headlines about an escalating push to ban books in schools across the country.

    Be it the removal of the Holocaust graphic novel Maus from a Tennessee school district’s eighth-grade curriculum or attempts to yank classics like The Handmaid’s Tale from library shelves, incidents of grassroots (and mostly conservative) pressure against schools to control the materials children can access have seemingly grown in frequency and intensity.

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22914767/book-banning-crt-school-boards-republicans


    There have been attempts to censor more than 1,900 library book titles so far in 2023...

    Most of the titles under scrutiny this year were written by or about people of color or members of the LGBTQ+ community, the group said.

    https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200647985/book-bans-libraries-schools

    Walz has a history of fighting back agasint the censorship.

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    • Minnesota and other Democratic-led states lead pushback on censorship. They’re banning the book ban

    Last fall, Shae Ross and fellow students in Bloomington, Minnesota successfully persuaded their district not to ban certain books dealing with sexuality, gender and race. Now, legislators are pursuing a prohibition on similar bans in schools across the state. (AP video: Mark Vancleave)

    BY STEVE KARNOWSKI AND MIKE CATALINI
    Updated 11:15 AM PDT, April 23, 2024
    ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A movement to ban book bans is gaining steam in Minnesota and several other states, in contrast to the trend playing out in more conservative states where book challenges have soared to their highest levels in decades.

    The move to quash book bans is welcome to people like Shae Ross, a queer and out Minnesota high school senior who has fought on the local level against bans on books dealing with sexuality, gender and race. Ross, 18, said she is encouraged to see her governor and leaders of other states are taking the fight statewide.

    https://apnews.com/article/book-ban...ce-libraries-d52fee70d8e3d4f158068de37ce8194b
     
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  5. AroundTheWorld

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    No common sense person has an issue with children being protected from your sick, perverted "books".

    The issue with freedom of speech is when political opinions get suppressed, deplatformed, censored, and when speech gets punished harder than violent crimes.

    That's what socialists have always done.
     
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    Ahh, so you are in favor of censorship. Thank you for clarifying.
     
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    Protecting small children from p*rnography and LGBTQIA+ or other sexualized indoctrination is not "censorship". The fact that you as a teacher do not understand that is gravely concerning.

    Censorship is what leftist governments have been doing in collusion with large social media operators.
     
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    So you support censoring things you don't agree with and don't support censoring things yo agree with.

    That's still supporting censorship.
     
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    Nope.
     
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    You've stated that pretty openly in this thread.
     
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    You lack a basic understanding of what free speech means.

    Exposing small children to p*rnography or sexual indoctrination is not it - as much as you are keen on that.
     
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    As you attempt to justify your censorship, you are expressing your support of censorship.

    I'm so against censorship, that I am okay with not censoring things with which I disagree.

    I would hope that you realize that not wishing to censor something is different than actually supporting that thing.

    Of course, the language and tactics used by those who wish to censor is to try and merge those two things in order to discourage people from speaking out against censorship.
     
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    I haven't seen you speak up against what is going on in the UK or the leftists' attempts to censor and de-platform whatever they deem "misinformation", "disinformation" or "hate speech" (speech they hate).
     
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    I'm not in favor of censoring those things.

    It is difficult to sort through the unhelpful, biased social media crap that floods those threads in order to find a real examination of what is happening there.
     
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    Giving you a like for clarifying your stance. Will remind you, maybe.
     
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    It's not all p*rnography and you're too smart to think that

    One of the most controversial books banned in Texas is The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

    It's about not acknowledging past racism and it's destructive psychological effects
     
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    Yup. The Handmaids Tale should be readily available to students to read to.
     
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    As I said before, it is well possible that mistakes were made when picking books to be excluded. These mistakes should be addressed.

    The general direction - protecting children and parental rights - is still correct.
     

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