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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.
Exactly this. You want to ban because of content you don’t like, well you don’t get to cherry pick. The content is or isn’t what it is. They learned that.
Did they learn it? A Republican would eat their own shit if it meant a Democrat had to smell it on their breath.
This is not leading to better policies. Just expanded bannings. The physical Bible doesn't play a role in day to day schooling. But some of the banned books would make real differences to people. Republicans lose nothing here, in fact they're getting vocal support for more bannings from people on the left.
I see your point, but I offer this:
This happened in a school, but it could happen at a higher level too. If it truly didn’t affect them that much in day to day schooling, then why the reversal at the school level after this ban went into place?
My thoughts:
It sent a message and despite them not wanting to admit it, they know deep down that the same bullshit hate they are spewing can be used against them at a content level. It didn’t change their minds on how they feel about the issues - no, that will never happen but perhaps it’ll curb some frivolous grass root efforts when the logic is applied to them.
This article only mentions that the school district reversed the ban on the Bible because it “has significant, serious value for minors which outweighs the violent or vulgar content it contains.” It does not indicate that the banning process was removed altogether, or that any other books were unbanned.
This is exactly my point. They don't care about being hypocritical, they'll update laws to be explicitly and overtly hypocritical to get their way. This gotcha means nothing to them.
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.