Georgia school district is banning books, citing sexual content, after firing a teacher
Georgia’s second-largest school district says that it has removed two books from 20 school libraries, saying the books had “highly inappropriate, sexually explicit content.”
The announcement, sent in an electronic message to parents in some Cobb County schools on Monday, comes days after the Republican-majority school board voted 4-3 along party lines to fire a teacher for reading a book about gender identity to fifth-grade students.
Although not new, book removals have surged since 2020, part of a backlash to what kids read and discuss in public schools. Conservatives want to stop children from reading books with themes on sexuality, gender, race and religion that they find objectionable. PEN America, a group promoting freedom of expression, counted 4,000 instances of books banned nationwide from July 2021 to December 2022.
I wonder if they included the bible, koran and torah since they cite sexual content and much worse.
I see this commented a lot, and I don't get what the idea is. Are the expected outcomes:
Never underestimate the capacity for Republicans to remain willfully hypocritical. It's literally the foundation of today's Supreme Court.
Malicious compliance is a form of protest.
It’s not an argument made to convince the opponent, rather it’s a comment to highlight the oppositions glaring hypocrisy and bigotry.
Right. They don't care.
From the article.
I’ve read flamer and it’s kind of telling how people want it banned. It makes me wonder if people who are deeply opposed to it feel called out by it’s core messaging
You act like they read it before banning it...
Cognitive dissonance is one of hell of a drug for some people, don’t underestimate it
The irony of this statement is that it is not a hell of a drug for people. Cognitive dissonance does not refer to the state of having contradictory beliefs, it refers to the feeling of discomfort one should experience from hold contradictory beliefs.
You get what I mean at least I think though 🤷♀️
Yeah of course, I don't think we should stop using it the colloquial way
They think too...
It's just about stuff they dont understand. So at least you have something in common with them
Dude it’s 9am where I am, I just woke up and posted a comment without fully proofreading it. Maybe consider not being an aggressive asshole and gently correct me instead? My intention was to say that they likely do read it and reach the conclusion they want and the irony of that goes over their head. I simply stated I assumed you understood what I actually meant
That was about as gentle a correction you can get on the Internet.
@JackbyDev@programming.dev was more than capable of doing so without being a condescending asshole, so it’s possible.
What kind of proofreading would have got you to learn what the word meant?
You didn't know, now you do.
Move on and be happy you learned, pretending you always did doesn't help. Especially since you think I'm someone else.
Ironically enough, you're acting even more like the people you were talking shit about now. You all have more in common than you think apparently
Calm down and stop being so condescending.
Chill out the hell out and stop being so condescending. We aren’t bringing that shit over from Reddit. And no, I didn’t think you were someone else.
Oh man, I finally got around to clicking your username and you mod a bunch of writing subs and have a "tip jar" on your account...
No wonder you took this so personally.
It's not a big deal, you learned something, it's a good thing. Don't let your ego get in the way at improving in something you clearly care a lot about. Who cares if ~20 people saw you didn't know what cognitive dissonance was?
I didn’t take it personally. It was just really aggressive and rude hence why I pointed it out as such. Saying that I have something in common with book banners was just not needed.
You act like they have read any book before...
If the message is understanding for gay children it stands against their whole fascist agenda.
These people want to white wash the gay away. What is the end goal. To make people forget that being gay is a thing. Ugh like 10-15 more years and most of the bigots will be too old to remember why mad.
Then go in and remove all Bibles, see how they like that.
But, yeah, they don't know what's in their bible as 99.99% of these fucks never read a book, let alone actually read the book they are ready to kill people over.
Fascism has arrived waving a flag and a bible. As the legends foretold.
"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."
Padme Amidala the Philosopher
I'm from that county and spent most of my childhood in that district. Not really surprising, tbh. Had a biology teacher in high school that was a staunch creationist and refused to teach anything other than what aligned with his beliefs. Failed that class pretty hard. Which started a snowball effect which lead to me quitting high school. The only class that I had that I felt comfortable in was art and that's because the curriculum wasn't laced with religious doctrine.
Be sure to use a photograph of early readers when discussing banning books aimed at young adults.
At least it wasn’t a photo of “Gender Queer” for the umpteenth time — which is a book aimed at college age readers.
Now do the Bible.