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Just figured this out eh?
The author of the headline is late to the garden party…
The nutbars interviewed in the article really are crazy dangerous nutbars. Children shouldn’t be exposed to signs that say “Equality”… and you should be willing to kill to protect your children from ideas you don’t like.
Cultists.
Watch teen suicides rise in this county over upcoming years. Watch an exodus of young people to Austin or further. Their precious innocent kiddies, if they turn out to be gay or questioning, will come to hate them, and they will deserve it.
Repubs want nothing so much as a return to the Dark Ages. Enlightenment offends them greatly, to the detriment of us all.
The next step will be for the right wing state governments to hand out scripts to all teachers that they need to read word for word on pain of dismissal. And no questions allowed. All test answers must conform to the party line.
Problem solved.
I’m surprised either of those books ever made it to the library shelves in the first place, I mean, it’s Hood County. If you need a reminder:
So, to recap, it's good to ban books like To Kill a Mockingbird, or Maus, but it's cancel culture to ask Spotify to let Joe Rogan go.
— Warren Leight (@warrenleightTV) February 6, 2022
The Reformation classics at work here. First arm the mob, then set them against the intellectual class. Next step, a reinterpretation of the founding texts - oops.
Time to carpet bomb Texas with banned books.
Funny these are the same vicious bastards that put the Catholics to death all over Europe. It’s a reformation they want. Put they smart to death and save the rich and tip their hat as always.
I disagree. The author is giving a timeline of events to explain how they in Hood County Texas got to here and now. I think it’s good to show how all these little events add up to the shit show that is now.
Right about now would be an opportune time to start a company that added closets to public schools.
In an email, Gore applauded the book removals and said the district is not taking aim at LGBTQ students or community members. “All students at GISD are loved and cared for by the amazing staff and administration,” she said. “With that, public schools are not the place for young people to express themselves sexually.”
So no holding of hands in the hallway? No mixed sexes at lunch tables or in classrooms? I guess there goes the cheerleading and pep squads. And last but not least any books that has parents as characters, because if there are “parents” that mean sex happened.
Just as Clinton campaigned on “building a bridge to the 21st century,” Rethugliklans want to build one to the 12th.
Do these people know about Bert and Ernie?
That advanced?
It is one sided partisanship. The Democratic party doesn’t sully itself with school boards. The Republicans, on the other hand, use them as the minor leagues for their up and coming politicians.
School boards have always been partisan. The far right have often moved aggressively to push an agenda or limit progressive ideas. It hasn’t worked. If anything, it’s more offensive now b/c the far right is more firmly in the minority here, and it’s just about creating some fodder to enable Fox to drive certain narratives to define the political news cycle, drive up GOP turnout and crowd out Dem messaging to create perfect storm environments like what happened in 2016 or most recently in the VA-GOV race last year.