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Banned: Books on race and sexuality are disappearing from Texas schools in record numbers (NBC "news")
NBC News (cough) ^ | 2/1/22 | Mike Hixenbaugh

Posted on 02/01/2022 10:37:30 AM PST by MAGA2017

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To: MAGA2017

“Exposing children to this filth is child abuse. Good for Texas.”

True, and I’m not at all sure that “it’s been really, really important to [a gay girl] that I have access to these books”.

Maybe it would depend on the book.


21 posted on 02/01/2022 11:09:59 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: MAGA2017

Today’s Captain Obvious quiz:

What does this girl have in common with the Urban Spaceman?

The answer’s at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVr2hbE6aW0


22 posted on 02/01/2022 11:16:58 AM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: toddausauras
Kids don’t read books

Cogent point - the books are PUBLICALLY PURCHASED copyrighted material, that gives credence, legitimacy and profits to those actively promoting non-traditional lifestyles.

It's hard for them to get much traction or profit from some kid Googling incognito.
23 posted on 02/01/2022 11:21:24 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: toddausauras
Kids don’t read books

They do here in WA, where the Freemasons have a Bikes for Books program for schoolkids.

24 posted on 02/01/2022 11:23:47 AM PST by RideForever (Loose lips sink ships)
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To: Raycpa

That passage sounded totally phony to me, as well. At the very least, they edited out all the “likes”, “y’knows” and “totallys.”


25 posted on 02/01/2022 11:32:07 AM PST by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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To: MAGA2017
So they pulled her porn.

She can always go to the actual library and check out all the porn she wants.

26 posted on 02/01/2022 11:37:03 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: MAGA2017

Maybe the libtard school boards should have thought that this might happen when they banned “Huckleberry Finn”?


27 posted on 02/01/2022 11:42:03 AM PST by T. Rustin Noone (the angels wanna wear my red shoes......)
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To: MAGA2017
BURN ALL THE DEVIANT SEXUALITY BOOKS.

Make homosexuality a crime again!

28 posted on 02/01/2022 11:50:15 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (HONK HONK! (standing with the Canadian truckers))
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To: MAGA2017

Once again I find I’m glad I don’t have any kids.


29 posted on 02/01/2022 11:53:43 AM PST by Scarlett156 (Someone with "comedian" on his social media profile is invariably a self-hating sadistic loser.)
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To: MAGA2017

“As I’ve struggled with my own identity as a queer person, it’s been really, really important to me that I have access to these books,” said the girl, whom NBC News is not naming to avoid revealing her sexuality. “And I’m sure it’s really important to other queer kids. You should be able to see yourself reflected on the page.”
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1. There is no such thing as “a homosexual”, there is only rebellion. Why would books which lie to you be allowed?

2. Why would they be featured in school libraries except to recruit juveniles?

3. Why would ANY book about sexuality be allowed in schools? Schools have the purpose of teaching readin’, writin’, and ‘rithmetic’.

If your parents want to teach you that it’s okay to be gay then they should look elsewhere.

P.S. Tell us who would do that to children.


30 posted on 02/01/2022 12:01:50 PM PST by nagant
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To: RideForever

There are lots of reading programs here in WA but it is rare to see a kid reading a book, except where it is specifically required as a school assignment. Phones have totally taken over in the last five years, just like they have with me.


31 posted on 02/01/2022 12:02:02 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: MAGA2017

GOD BLESS TEXAS!


32 posted on 02/01/2022 12:18:15 PM PST by rhinohunter (“Being woke means you’re a loser” — Donald J. Trump)
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To: Raycpa

Does this quote actually sound like it came from a teenager?

Sadly yes, although as Albion Wilde pointed out the "like"s and "you know"s have likely been edited out.

33 posted on 02/01/2022 12:39:02 PM PST by FormerFRLurker
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To: MAGA2017

That is good news. Schools shouldn’t be grooming children.


34 posted on 02/01/2022 12:39:04 PM PST by Trillian
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The forbidden fruit is always sweeter, though. After some school boards banned “Maus”, a graphic novel about the Holocaust, because it contained swear words and a naked female mouse, it is now #2 on Amazon’s Best Sellers while the “Complete Maus” is #3. If there’s one way to guarantee a teenager will read a book, it is to ban it.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books?asc_campaign=commerce-pra&asc_refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.insider.com%2Fmaus-amazon-bestseller-after-tennessee-school-district-ban-2022-1&asc_source=browser&tag=biauto-53282-20


35 posted on 02/01/2022 12:43:48 PM PST by FormerFRLurker
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Sounds like made-up BS. Even so, you telling me teeens who think they're homos need the school library for support? Homos are all over TV and the internet.

Why are leftists enthralled with 19th century technology like libraries and trains?

36 posted on 02/01/2022 12:44:03 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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It sounds like the district library is just removing books with sexual content that they have deemed age inappropriate, whether heterosexual or homosexual-it is up to parents to decide what is appropriate sexual content for their kids to see/read-not the school librarian(s)-and that is going to vary from parent to parent-and that is not the school’s business, either-they do not have the right to encourage sexualization of someone’s kid...

When I was in middle school and HS, there were couple of romance-y novels in the library that had sexual content, “Winter Wheat” was one but it was not graphic and didn’t include any of the 4 letter terms-I did read novels that did-but they were obtained from the regular library, older cousins-or in secret from my mom’s nightstand-but not from the school library-and of course there were those true confession type magazines available at the drug and grocery store. It was still like that when my cub was a young teen-in the 80’s-I think it was a better way-let each kid’s parents monitor and decide...


37 posted on 02/01/2022 1:15:46 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: FormerFRLurker

naked mouse... it’s a small frame pictured in a GAS CHAMBER!!!

now i read this years ago, and i think the story line is a little much for “children”, more so because it’s true

so i found it again, judge for yourself as to why you think it’s appropriate or not

https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/spiegelman-maus-ii.pdf


38 posted on 02/01/2022 1:18:47 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: 4Liberty

Well said.


39 posted on 02/01/2022 6:01:43 PM PST by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: carriage_hill

Ha! In the early 1950s, we read National Geographic.


40 posted on 02/02/2022 4:18:33 AM PST by octex
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