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Disgusting.
Party of “free speech” ಠ_ಠ
Party of Free Hate Speech
FTFY
This is exactly it. Conservatives don't want free speech for others: they want free speech for themselves, which in their minds also means that no matter what they say nobody can react negatively to it in any way. They specifically don't want anybody else to have any freedoms; the core of conservatism is social dominance over the Other
would include any discussion of homosexuality
Guess that bible is right out of those libraries
It is a slightly amusing irony that this necessarily includes any books that tell kids that homosexuality is evil and wrong.
I’m sure they’ll carve out an exception for those eventually.
Probably not in any way that wouldn't involve malicious compliance like putting them on a special bigotry display. They would have to write a law so long and with so many specificities that it would be virtually impossible. Maybe if they actually listed the "acceptable" books by name and said that they could not be mocked?
I was thinking something like Christofascist parents bringing a list of books to the Christofascist school boards that have been deemed sufficiently full of hate as to be individually approved to be in the classroom.
I dunno. I’m just so cynical on all this stuff these days that it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if they found a way. Keeping my fingers crossed I’m wrong.
That wouldn't shock me since they're already presenting lists of books that should be banned, but putting a list of the names of all of the approved books into law would be so unprecedented in terms of a first amendment violation that I don't even think the SCOTUS we have now would be okay with it.
At least the version we know.
If someone actually reads and studies the bible they can come to the realization that god loves all equally, and all the hate is just from what parents and your congregation has taught you.
They might have a different bible (trump bible) or it may be already in the works that they plan on replacing it with.
Heck, they might have plans from banning any holy book that isn't their approved bible from everywhere, even people's homes if trump is ellected, sort of like how they did in the movie "v for vendetta".
Unless you are white, male, CIS-het, and an evangelical Xian, they are coming for you to. You're just a bit further down the list.
They're coming for you even then if you aren't rich.
But surely the leopards won't eat my face
Given the number of rich white cis men that fall out of windows in Russia, I'd say that they eventually come for them too.
They’re coming for you even then if you aren’t rich.
Yep. There's "rich" relative to most folks, then there is couldn't-spend-all-my-interest-income-in-a-thousand-lifetimes rich.
The real leopards know which is which.
Damnit Idaho, again with the bad behavior :/ One of my niblings is trans, they've got to grow up in that state, it's not going to be easy. I grew up in that state before I knew I was trans but everyone including me sensed something off and even that wasn't easy. I wish there was more I could do from where I am now but best I know is to make sure they know I support them and have their back in what ways I can
Nibling is a gender-neutral term used to refer to a child of one's sibling as a replacement for "niece" or "nephew". The word is thought to have been coined in the early 1950s, but was relatively obscure for several decades before being revived in recent years.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-were-watching-nibling
Huh. TIL. Thanks.
My wife is a librarian here in Indiana and they've already tried passing a law like this once, so I don't have any doubts they will try again and it's terrifying.
Freedom of speech baby. Some have it, some don't.
Americans are in the don't category.
Don't fuck with librarians... They have access to the chemistry books and are friends with the people who know how to use the magics contained within....
Seriously though, if you are on the opposite side from librarians, you're doing it wrong.
I'm my state the librarian can charge you with theft if you don't return a book after they send you a notice to return it.
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