Some school districts in Florida, Uneducated States of A, I have read have banned maths textbooks because of CRT.
Which banned books are you planning on reading this year? Or this month?
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Maus is a superb book. Highly recommend it.
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It’s one of those books that is banned. I will check it out
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Tough subject matter, but we’ll told. Fuckin Republicans complain about cancel culture and then respond to it by banning books and shitting all over the 1st amendment. Asshole snowflake babies.
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That’s the strange part, you know. On the one side to cry 1st Amendment and on the other to ban books.
What I found interesting is that a fellow has decided to petition Florida to ban the bible.
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That would be wrong, too. He needs to be more like me and just mock the bible. That’s a lot more fun!😁
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I think he knows his petition will not go far but I think he is attempting to do what the Church of Satan has managed to do where the issue is that of separation of church and state.
Use the same standard that you applied to ban book a to ban book b, or remove the said books from the list
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Yes. I’m sure that’s his point. Sadly, the knuckleheads he’s making it for are too dense to see his point.
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That’s sad.
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As usual, I read whatever I like, regardless of whether it is “banned” or not. As for book burning, throw the idiots who burn books into the flames instead of the books! 🙂 Naked hugs my Kenyan brother!
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Most times, I look for a banned book to see why it was banned but I have discovered to my dismay that i do not suffer from the same delicate sensibilities as the censors.
Most times when a movie has been banned here, if I should watch it, I find mostly i was better off watching paint dry.
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Based on the actions of the Repukes, the kids in this country are going to grow up to be about as educated as the Neanderthals.
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Carl Sagan warned of this in Demon Haunted World..great book by the way, so it’s probably banned.
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I just finished reading this book. UFOs seems to be a big thing in the US of A
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It’s an excellent and forewarning book..it’s worse than he thought.
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Use them or lose them. That is what happens to freedoms.
That science education, in fact, education in general is suffering in most places is something that ought to be a concern to all of us.
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Yes if you don’t teach science, a country will fall behind and if uou don’t teach history there is no hope to prevent bad things from happening again. And to me this most important things to teach are critical thinking and ethics and this is only occasionally taught in some colleges.
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Actually to teach critical thinking would itself be enough.
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Now that I am reading Volney, his warning is even more relevant and for something written in 1789, it is almost prophetic. He writes in one place
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Just saw a poster warning that masks are the Mark of the Beast. I find them annoying but had no idea I was damning my soul🤪
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Too bad for you my friend. That’s an additional reason you are going to hell!
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or maybe worse
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C’mon, man. CRT is old school. LCD and plasma screens are where it’s at now.
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Tell this to those guys in Florida. I hope they get to know what you mean
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I suppose I could, but it seems imprudent to meddle in their affairs given that “We, the people of the State of Florida” voluntarily selected their current ruler via democratic means and grant him higher approval ratings than his rivals.
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hahahaha, you are washing your hands from this affair
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You are correct. All I can tell the people of Florida is that “I am innocent of this man’s actions. It is your responsibility!” (And all the people answered, “His dictates be upon us and on our children!”)
As Mr. Menken opined, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” 🙂
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This reminds me of the court case in Pirates of the Carribean, At the world’s ends where Jack Sparrow has a stooge for a judge who proclaims him guilty of not being Jack Sparrow.
Let the people get what they asked for.
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Tell me about it. I live in Florida. Same people who love trump, love DeathSantis and there are many of them..but then I look at Texas and Oklahoma and see that they are everywhere like flies
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It is surprising that a nation claiming to be the most liberal in the world operates in similar ways as most dictatorships when it comes to the right of publishing.
There can be no doubt fascism is on the rise!
Banned books
Another interesting thing to look at is how many books out of the top 100 classic volumes have been challenged or banned. Here is a list.
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
1984, by George Orwell
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Native Son, by Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burges
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron
Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
Naked Lunch, by William S. Burrough
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Women in Love, by DH Lawrence
The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
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Wow that is impressive. You have to really wonder why. This can’t be all CRT. Something else afoot.
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No. There must be something more.
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Why would Slaughterhouse Five be on the list? Is it because it talks of war, America’s past time?
Banning books is really a crazy thing to do.
We had a morality police here who would ban videos and songs he considered injurious to public morality as determined by himself.
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