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So kids, as we know now, our ancestors, the hominids that came before us, they all had big butts apparently. Ha! I said butts! Now they can't ban my book on evolution!
Sometimes I wonder why America is a called "the land of the free".
I have one question why
Not even close to the most ridiculous things in books Texas had tried to ban.
Reminds me of Stephen Colbert and Hugh Laurie pointing out the sheer ridiculousness of censoring words:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x12t3st
I swear Captain Underpants already negated this like a decade ago lol
Good. Fuck Butt Fart Texas. Books should not be censored for words. I remember a teacher in maybe 7th grade reading a book outloud with the word fuck in it, and he just said it and kept reading, he.knew the book well. I gained a lot of respect for that teacher and listened to him because I felt like he wasn't going to censor what he taught us.
Good teacher. Authors choose their words intentionally. I'm guessing "fudging", "friggen", and "ducking" (thanks iPhone) are not great replacements for the subject matter.
what, trying to equate "butt" and "fart" with porn didn't work?
-moron GOP who think everyone is as dumb as they are
Imagine being all worked up about books mentioning raging obscenities like 'butt' and 'fart', only to get slapped in the face by Judge 'Wiener'. 😂
Imagine having that much of an issue with barely offensive words that their kids will never read because most don't use the school library anyway.
And imagine letting your kids come home and access whatever media they want including actual pornography on the internet. Most of these parents have zero clue how to block internet sites on their home computers and laptops let alone the phones that their kids all have.
But of course, that's another problem some parents are asking the government to solve by forcing porn sites to require visitors to affirmatively identify themselves and their age. Of course, that only applies to the major porn sites that play by the arbitrary rules anyway. All so stupid.
Theyre trying to ban him next
Didn't Trump fart all the time while in court? I'd expect them to love farts and huff them all the time. Their lord and savior deemed it good enough for his behind, so it shall be good enough for their noses. It was his political statement, banning farts from books is political motivated terrorism or something like that, I don't know. I'm not insane enough to understand their intentions.
Imagine being that offended by Captain Underpants
These are the same people who tried to get Mr Rogers taken off the air and tried to shut down PBS entirely.
I think the average city-American doesn't fully appreciate how backwards most of our country really is. As someone who grew up in the rural outskirts I can tell stories of the people and communities and attitudes that would probably be shocking to many people, but there are so many people like this that they have significant power over our land. We have to be a lot better about enforcing education in our country, we need to bring the morons back up out of the dark-ages, because there are a fucking LOT of dark-age imbeciles across the US shaping policy for all of us and most of the time they run unchallenged because everyone just fixates on presidential elections every four years and nothing else.
Sadly they slowly dismantle public education at every turn. I'd be curious to see the uptick in the past 40 years of homeschooling, particularly those doing so for religious reasons.
It's not the last 40 years, it's been since Civil Rights legislation and the Brown vs Board decision.
Curious to see the numbers for any time range, just suspected a growth in past few decades.
The desenting opinion called the court the "library police" for refusing to let the state police the library.
All they know is projection
Unfortunately, we know how this is going to go: "If you won't let us ban books from the library, we'll just ban the library."
Already happening in some places. Local governments are cutting library funding because they don't like the some of the content that their libraries are stocking, but the courts won't let them ban it all.
Time to open private non-profit libraries, offer classes on social tolerance and apply for public grants?
Which was probably the intent from the start.
Btw, I absolutely ADORE that the acronym for the system used by libraries to weed out old books is MUSTIE 😆❤️
What does MUSTIE stand for? You can't just leave us hanging! 🤓
Llano County applies the “MUSTIE” factors in weeding books, as recommended by experts in the field, under which a book is evaluated for whether it is (1) “Misleading and/or factually inaccurate,” (2) “Ugly (worn out beyond mending or rebinding),” (3) “Superseded by a new edition or a better source,” (4) “Trivial (of no discernable literary or scientific merit),” (5) “Irrelevant to the needs and interests of the community,” or (6) “Elsewhere (the material may be easily borrowed from another source).”
From the "fuck your feelings" crowd lol
No, no, no! You got it all wrong. It’s the kiiiiiiiids.
Kids fucking live for fart and butt jokes. I've never seen a group of children giggle harder than when I watched a teacher read "I Need a New Butt."
My older kids went through a phase where they were just randomly saying “butt” for like a year. By the end of it I couldn’t stand my own ass.
“Hey dad, dad, DAD!”
“What is it kiddo?”
“Butts! Ahahahahaha. Just picture it, crack down the middle, poopin’, just hanging out being a butt.”
When I realized I hadn’t heard the word “butt” for a few months, my sigh of relief could have changed the orbit of the planet.
Butt
Republicans are NOT Snowflakes!
I think it says something that one of the books they were trying to ban was Called Themselves the K.K.K: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
If you look at the books that were banned and take out all the humorous ones about butts and farts, you're left almost exclusively with books about past conservative atrocities and books about current targets of conservative bigotry.
The people who want to ban these books were too bigoted for the 5th Circuit. They'll probably try to close the whole library next.
And in 5 years they’ll all be wearing “Make Butt Fart Again” hats.
I want that hat. It should be brown.
Now I want nothing more than to parade around in front of a bunch of conservatives in a "Make Butt Fart Again" hat
I haven't farted in like twenty years. You have no idea how much you start to miss it.
Jesus, I am propelled everywhere I go by farts. Makes the kids laugh so I guess I’ll be alright.
Scrottie McBugger-Balls (the book they wrote in South Park)