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It's odd people just hear someone say book ban and not look into it. They're taking sexually explicit books out of schools for 5-9 year olds.

I think nothing is odd anymore. Humans are just humaning. Lol

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I guess the definition of "sexually explicit" is different in your dictionary

Taking about eating pussy and blowjob's seems pretty explicit to me.

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What's your definition?

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What sexually explicit book did your kid bring home from school?

People pick and choose the parts of the Constitution they support/don’t support all the time. The ones that hate the Second Amendment crack me up, though, since that’s the one that protects all the others.

One of the headline today was Missouri defunding all libraries, not just for kids. Not just schools.

How many books do that?

Florida literally banning kids books about black people and Asians, not to mention non-nuclear families

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Books about race theory. Not about black people. I don't know anything about the non-nuclear books. I'd be interested to see.

I'd recommend following up and looking into it yourself. News is more about agenda than news anymore. Both sides.

Doesn't matter the number. Get them out.

Not allowing children to read sexually explicit Books doesn’t seem like a book ban to me 🤷

All of the books? Or just the very few that have offensive materials? What defines offensive? Should a puritan be able to decide for me what my child has access to? What about the Bible? Murder, incest, cannabilasm, child murder. Should that be included? Biology books that explain human reproduction?

I mean a banned book nya's long walk is about retrieving water in south Sudan.

I feel that the veil is thin when it comes to this shit.

Just read up on it... "Since it was first enacted in August, librarians and other educators have faced misdemeanor charges punishable by up to a year in jail or a $2,000 fine for giving students access to books the state has deemed sexually explicit. The Missouri law defined explicit sexual material as images “showing human masturbation, deviate sexual intercourse,” “sexual intercourse, direct physical stimulation of genitals, sadomasochistic abuse,” or showing human genitals." They aren't following the law, so they're shutting down funding

No, it shouldn't be included. If you as a parent want to show your kids porn, snuff or religious materials, that's your prerogative. But that's the parent's decision. Get it out.

If that's banned, I have no idea why and would oppose it.

These are the books banned in one county. Seems like maybe too much control was given to ban books. https://pen.org/banned-books-florida/

Why should a parent be allowed to censor/traumatise kids any more than a school?

I don't think any parent should. But some people are pissed about graphic and pornographic material being banned. I'm saying if they want to damage their kid, that's their issue. Leave my kid alone.

If they want to damage their kid, that's their kid's issue (but not responsibility), and is just as much an issue as if a school did it.

Go like Rick from Rick and Morty. Nothing really matters anyway. Life gets so much easier after the realization of this.

Here's a pro-tip. School libraries don't show snuff or porn to kids. Most parents don't either. Religion is fine within society, but has no business in public schools as not all children believe in the same God(s) ( there's close to 3000 of them)

Yes, there are a handful of instances of inappropriate content in schools, but that number doesn't justify this full on attack on public education.

You're missing my point. I'm saying I don't care how people feel about these topics. Keep them away from my kid. I don't think they should show it to their kids either. But absolutely no way are they to expose my kids to it.

So your kids should have more what you would consider benefits than other people's? They're all children and they don't choose who they're born to.

Here's a pro tip, I said keep all that, including religious materials out. The attack on education is saying keep the garbage out. Teach reading, writing, arithmetic. Don't teach gender ideology, race theory, religion or sexual orientation.

What are you talking about?

Why do you think your kids should have special protections other kids don't? Because they had the random chance to be born to you rather than someone else you think they should have a different treatment?

Again. What are you talking about?

Are you saying since I care about my kids and other parents don't care about their kids, then fuck it, screw all the kids? I'm so lost on your logic.

There is material suitable for children. Stick to it. There is material not suitable for children. Don't use it

I think I misunderstood what you meant then in your previous comment. I'm okay with children( 8th YEAR +) being taught that there are different sexual orientations ( and that it's okay to be that way-in terms of consenting ADULTS) This could/should be a part of sex education.

There are instances of homosexuality being observed in 500+ species. I'm not saying showing pictures or describe in depth the behavior or have repeated lessons on the topic, but being gay shouldn't be stigmatized any more in society.

I don't know what race theory is, but a lot of historical events are based in race and history should be taught objectively in a way that doesn't teach inferiority/superiority. Just the facts.

Gender psychology is a college level class, it's fine where it's at.

Ok so it sounds like we agree on all fronts.

They don’t reject the right to read books. They want to keep certain books away from their kids. They are not asking to have them made illegal by the government to own or read or study academically.

Everybody has SOME books they wouldn’t want their kids reading until they’re old enough. We just draw the line different.

Caveat that these are generalizations and there are always SOME people out there that actually advocate for truly insane things. Pick the worst idea imaginable, someone out there is a proponent of it. But that’s beside the point.

It is. I've never met anyone in my country that wants to prevent adults from reading any books. We do have some people that want to prevent children from reading books that contain images of child pornography.
In fact, our most banned book is such a book. It's called Gender Queer and it's banned for containing images of children engaged in oral sex with each other. Some parents don't want children to see one child's penis penetrate another child.
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10

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