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Next comes the mandatory display of pink triangles when outdoors.
Conservative cancel culture involves cancelling the constitution.
Theyâve long since cancelled respect for others and for differing viewpoints. Now theyâve moved on to bigger things.
Truly amazing that something like this would happen in a high wealth, heavily conservative enclave.
âI donât want a kid picking up a book, whether itâs about homosexuality or heterosexuality, and reading about how to hook up sexually in our libraries,â Glenn said.
Ok, so why does hooking up in libraries immediately occur to this guy? Just wondering.
And to any school employees who might have different political beliefs, Glenn said, âYou better hide it.â
IOW: Get with the pogrom.
So, heâs ok with giving children guns, but donât dare teach the about S-E-X!! As Lenny Bruce famously remarked, âWe canât let kids see two people making love; they might want to do that when they grow up!â As far as removing LGBTQ materials, this further shows Mr. Glennâs homophobia and ignorance about those who are different from him.
No kidding. Weâre just a short step away from the repubs accusing liberals of being anti-putin and pro-democracy. smh
Repressed Van Halen fan?
He noted that members of Granburyâs school board â his bosses â were also very conservative. And to any school employees who might have different political beliefs, Glenn said, âYou better hide it,â adding, âHere in this community, weâre going to be conservative.â
There is nothing conservative about fascist extremism.
Can confirm that Hood is a shithole county. Unfortunately, any remedies under federal law go through Reed OâConnor and the Fifth Circuit, so donât expect anything to be done about this.
âCancel Cultureâ and âCensorshipâ all begin with âCâs!â
I canât think of a single time history has looked favorably on banning books. Itâs always âconservativesâ who want to do it to uphold their values and beliefs. What nobody asks them is, why arenât your values and beliefs sustainable against other ideas? If theyâre so great, why do people turn away from them when exposed to ideas about compassion, tolerance, acceptance and fairness?
If you only have one source of information that source will form your ideas. Thatâs how the USSR and modern day RF work. Itâs the reason FOX news exists. If you yank information from kids then give them what you want you own their minds and thatâs what this is about. They arenât being educated in North Texas theyâre being prepped to be what âconservativesâ want them to be. In the end that will blow up.
Itâs un American but you can do it here. However itâs destined to fail.
The âfuck your feelingsâ crowd are pretty successful in expressing their feelings.
âThere are people who want to tear down values and force theirs and then also force acceptance,â Monica Brown
No Ms. Brown, thats what youâre doing. A book with a gay protagonist in the library isnât forcing you to accept anything. Do Agatha Christie novels force acceptance of strychnine poisoning? On second thought, donât answer that.
Before we get too deep into writing off the community of Granville, I want to highlight the LGBTQ+ kids who are speaking out and standing up for each other. They didnât choose their hometown and they have a fundamental right to an education- an education where they are safe and accepted for who they are. We ought to go to bat for them. Itâs too bad there wasnât a link to their tshirts.
Here we go⌠My state. Beto, we need you to be the best candidate you can be. They gonna black out the bible passages with naughty sexy talk too?
Post-Nazi Germany banned Mein Kampf for decades, and it still has serious restrictions on Nazi materials and Holocaust denialism. And Iâm totally fine with that. I think it was Mill in On Liberty who predicated his idea of free and unrestricted discourse on a society having been sufficiently matured that it can handle bad speech with more good speech. WWII and the Holocaust demonstrated pretty conclusively that Germany canât just handle Nazis with reasoned discourse, so theyâre out.
To the contrary, most 20th century book banning was done by far-left communist and other radicals regimes. Counter-revolutionary books and ideas are prohibited, Comrade.
I am always amazed when I learn about a radical anti gay personâs crusade against a community is later identified as potentially affiliated with self-loathing because the person has remained in the closet.
Those kids have more courage than the superintendent. Lots more. Good on 'em.