Sigh. Way to guarantee all the young adults are going to read the Twilight of shitty vanilla fairy melodramas.
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You’re allowed to read them, it just has to be inside a dark bag with only magical stones for illumination.
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Implementation guidelines say that banned materials must be “legally disposed of” and “may not be sold or distributed”.
So, a book burning. Got it.
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Fucking imbeciles.
While I hate this, I'm left wondering why we even mention the authors gender.
Is it to indicate that lawmakers go against women's freedoms?
Yes. A lot of book bans have been focused on books written by women and minorities.
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"so, any progress on the school shooting problem?"
"nah, we needed to fix the superfudge problem. now we're going to work on the pokemon problem. it doesn't glorify god!"
Pokemon don't evolve! They become more intelligently designed!
Yes. Banning fairy porn will fix all of society's ills.
Its not even very spicy fairy porn, if I am remembering right. Been a few years since I read the series.
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That list is 13 books by 7 authors.
Not good, but the summary is wrong.
Edit: the article needs some proof reading
Yeah. An editor checking the headline would help.
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FFS Utah, your lucky you have pretty rocks, but you got to knock this shit off.
Outlaw Utah. Call it a day.
Free speech in USA is a joke, it's both poorly protected and poorly regulated at the same time. Worst of both worlds!
So. I have this... Stance. Humanity has at no point evolved past tribalism. We all live in tribes. The tribe with the most power waxes poetic about the importance of free speech, but the truth is, they only allow as much free speech as allows their tribe to maintain their position. All the rest of our tribes can squabble over whatever remaining scraps of power are left after the controlling tribe is full up.
That's certainly true for some people.
But I don't see the Democrats out there banning books.
Speak for yourself. I'm all for banning ghostwritten books by conservative talking heads so they can launder money and game bestseller lists.
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Why can't we ever get rid of fascists? Every generation they try the same crap and get away with it.
Why can't we ever get rid of fascists?
I believe this is where the second amendment comes in.
100%
I suspect it’s just a personality type. Maybe we could use eugenics to get rid of this undesirable trait. Oh wait. Dammit
Because the same people taking away the rights are the ones saying that we can't retaliate for taking away our rights.
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WHAT.THE.FUCK.
Motherfuckin' can't read 'Superfudge' in Utah anymore? This is truly the darkest timeline.
It's listed in the article. It's "Forever" by Judy Blume. Not sure that I'm familiar with it.
Really? I assumed it would be Are You There God it's Me Margaret. What could they possibly find offensive about Superfudge?
What could they be against a book that mentions God in the title?
It's about a girl and her friends discussing menstruation, and wishing they could menstruate, and being jealous of other girls who already menstruate, and praying to God that they menstruate soon. I can see where that would frighten pearl clutchers.
Rhetorical! Thanks for the answer reminding us how against women these fuckers are though!
Tbf in not sure if.its against women or against bodily functions. I assume they'd probably have issues with a similar book about male puberty.
The people banning it are against books about Menstruation...........which women do...........
"An entire book about a girl asking if God is there!? What a waste of time! The answer is 'Yes, God is there.'. We just saved you like 10 hours! (Though sometimes he may let you suffer or die without ever showing himself. But he's a silly ole God, and it was probably for your own good anyways.)"
"Sometimes"
If it takes you ten hours to read a Judy Blume book, that might be why you’re banning books.
“I’m gonna need you to step back about 20 paces there… You’re talkin’ about a woman, reading?”
Whoa whoa whoa...women can read??????
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK! I'VE BEEN LIED TO. CAN THEY ALSO VOTE AND BE OUT IN PUBLIC?????