New Jersey becomes latest state to prohibit bans on books
New Jersey becomes latest state to prohibit bans on books
Growing up I was under the impression that no one could ban books in the US. Fahrenheit 451 was a book we read and studied in sixth grade. I think that's around 12 years old-ish. That's when we also started learning the constitution and basics of law.
It blows my mind we're going through this nonsense right now
The second I heard Trump got elected, I gave standard ebooks $10 and grabbed their entire library, and did a "shopping spree" on zlibrary.
how do you...
Grab fiction and nonfiction from their collections page. That covers every book.
History repeats itself. Left, right, left, right. One foot after the other. It'll be here soon. Who knows, you might live to see a bread line four blocks long by age 70.
Perk up!
Might also want to check out https://gutenberg.org, it's got about 70x the books that standard ebooks has, even if its not as well refurbished.
Growing up I didn't think abortion was controversial, only very religious conservative people standing outside abortion clinics find it controversial. Wasn't until we overturned roe v wade when I realized there are way more people who disagree with abortion than I initially thought.
interesting perspective. i grew up in a super conservative circle and i was under the impression that most people found it morally wrong. in reality, the vast majority of Americans support access to abortion in some way, regardless if they would personally have one themselves
I remember learning through multiple personal experiences some time during highschool that some adults were vastly less intelligent and wise than some of my fellow 16 yr olds, it was shocking to me. Honestly I think some people hit puberty and just began coasting, ego and entitlement outweighed curiosity, and they began to live with the belief that society's collection of history, science, and reasoning, was worth less than their own personal opinion.
Them banning the bans makes me chuckle.
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden thi yer?
I recommend reading the US constitution. Basically this is what the Bill of Rights is.
Also many States added bans on banning of abortions to their Constitutions for the same reason.
We need a lot more of these, like bans on bans of encrypted apps without backdoors. Bans on bans of "vagrancy" and other laws made to target black people. Bans on book bans in prison.
The land of freedom has reached the point that we must ban banning things rather than framing it as guaranteeing the right to d9 a thing.
I’m interested how this works, technically. I’m against banning books. I’m also against elementary school kids picking up Naked Lunch in the school library and leaving through it. I presume no librarian would elect to have that book anyway, so it will never be tested whether it can be barred somehow. There are also probably soft mechanisms that get used like “it’s in the library and you can check it out with a parental permission form.” Anyway how to handle obscene material has been a question since the beginning of time.
The bill permits restriction in the case of “developmentally inappropriate material” for certain age groups. The measure also requires local school boards and the governing bodies of public libraries to set up policies for book curation and the removal of library materials, including a way to address concerns over certain items.
The school would still have to be the one buying the books so they just won't buy any book they deem inappropriate. I'm sure this is mainly just to stop zealots from banning everything related to evolution. Also, I haven't read Naked Lunch but from what I know of it, I doubt it has anything kids can't get on the Internet nowadays.
From the article:
The bill permits restriction in the case of “developmentally inappropriate material” for certain age groups. The measure also requires local school boards and the governing bodies of public libraries to set up policies for book curation and the removal of library materials, including a way to address concerns over certain items.
I somehow took this to mean the exact opposite of what the title meant and was confused how this was uplifting news. I think it's time I had a little nap.
Well considering what the last dozen or so headlines you've read about banned books were probably about, I can see how you would make that assumption
Yeah, I had the same reaction as well, through I may have an excuse as my fibromyalgia is flaring up :/
I'm glad they're taking steps to oppose fuckery. I'm disgusted that these steps have become necessary (or at least prudent).
The bill permits restriction in the case of “developmentally inappropriate material” for certain age groups. The measure also requires local school boards and the governing bodies of public libraries to set up policies for book curation and the removal of library materials, including a way to address concerns over certain items.
I was thinking that probably not all books are suited to a school library lol
Tbf most of the ones "banned" are banned because of language (I found as many of the PDFs as I could one time and searched the documents for "fuck," which many of them contained, or other words that would be banned in schools), or in one case a graphic novel with a panel depicting a blowjob, and I have been corrected before that it "wasn't technically a blowjob it was 'strap on play,'" but, c'mon strap on play is banned in schools too whether it's between straights or gays. Sure it's educational, but it's not the same as an anti racist book that has the N-word in a historical context (TKAM) or something. Most of those are still going to be banned due to that, the rape scenes in a few, "fuck," "cocksucker," etc.
This seems more like a feel good measure just to say "See we fixed it! All those same books are still banned, but now we're claiming the actual reasons instead of homophobia." I'd be interested to see an itemized breakdown of the ISBNs before/after.
For reference, here's a PDF to Gender Queer on Archive, one of the most popularized, at the top of every "they banned these books" list:
https://archive.org/details/gender-queer-a-memoir-by-maia-kobabe-z-lib.org/page/62/mode/1up
A) Share it with anyone who needs it! I don't believe in limiting the free flow of information online or at the public libraries (bans there are eggregious flat out), but
B) Check out page 62 and page 168, this would never fly in my schools whether it was straight or gay, let's be real.
can they prohibit foundations of geopolitics?
Probably not, seeing as that is also a book. Making Dugin’s ideas harder to find doesn’t fix anything anyway, challenging them on the merits does.
“It was just the prelude… Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too.”
Heinrich Haine
Based
So Hitlers and nazis books cant be banned? Im literally shaking uncontrollably and convulsing. New nazis