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A Florida public school staff member, risking her job, documented a glimpse of whats currently happening at her school. The state has come in and removed hundreds, thousands of books from their school library deeming the books inappropriate. 👇
Walleye
(31,028 posts)These books mustve been deemed appropriate at one time, what happened? Has anybody read them besides the students?
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)has either criticism of how Native Americans were treated.
OR
contain stories about how Native Americans actually helped Lewis and Clark accomplished their mission.
Either way, the racists won't like it.
Walleye
(31,028 posts)That might make the white kids feel bad about their ancestors killing Indians
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)Not only discuss cooperation with Native Americans and treat them like human beings...
But many of the entries are on the racy side. In some parts of the journals, we learn that some Native Americans were quite, er, impressed with the black man in the party (a slave, IIRC), and how they were throwing daughters at him to mate with him.
Plenty of not-child-friendly material like that in the originals, but not sure if they're in the abridged versions that most primary school libraries would carry. After all, the originals run into the hundreds of thousands of pages. Lewis and Clark copied each other's entries quite often for the sensible reason that one or the other one could get killed or their journals lost somehow. The longer the expedition went on, the more copying went on.
That's why few publishers have bothered to release "unabridged" versions--it takes fricking forever to get through the duplications alone, and never mind the "creative" spelling issues. Even then, most of these cleaned up versions run 5,000-10,000 pages. I think the highly-regarded Moulton set runs some 13 volumes at ~300-400 pages each. Not cheap, either, at $370 for the complete set.
honest.abe
(8,678 posts)I fear for the future of this country.
Blue Owl
(50,423 posts)Keep DeSatan away from the rest of the nation please
Deuxcents
(16,246 posts)What are they gonna do with the books? Are we ever gonna recover from this madness?
Nevilledog
(51,121 posts)Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)That shit is woke AF!
ShazzieB
(16,420 posts)It must contain info about how mammals reproduce that the censors are afraid kids might be able extrapolate to figure out how human mammals reproduce! In other words: s e x. That has to be it!
God, trying to imagine how those prudes think makes my head hurt!
Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)ShazzieB
(16,420 posts)This reply jogged my memory!
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Darwin was RIGHT.
Initech
(100,080 posts)Seriously, Fox News, Desantis, and the MAGA Christian Taliban can go fuck themselves with a rusty bayonet.
Rebl2
(13,523 posts)Blue states would start taking books out of librarys that are related to republicans, especially trump, pence, both bushes, Cheney etc. They wont do that because they know its wrong. Wrong to keep people from reading what they want.
Initech
(100,080 posts)I went to a Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago and was browsing the non fiction section. Literally every single book was right wing garbage and it was all negative. No wonder they're so angry all the time.
Rebl2
(13,523 posts)end up on the sale table for $2 or less.
Vdizzle
(383 posts)Im sure when Ron hears about this video, theyll all be gone. Welcome to fascism Florida! And if we arent careful, the rest of the US too!
Deuxcents
(16,246 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Burning books has been deemed too Nazi-like.
Shredding them and converting them into toilet tissue is perfectly fine. And yea, I thoroughly expect someone to come up with DeSantis Brand ass wipe recycled from woke books!
even though theyre effectively the exact same fucking thing.
TeamProg
(6,139 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)reymega life
(675 posts)WE need a president that uses his power to send in federal officials too stop this from happening we need a strongman democrat to send in federal troop units to protect books.
NowISeetheLight
(3,943 posts)Florida should be renamed Dystopia. The book bans and other laws are so un-American.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)it's in the range of hundreds to thousands of books removed.
They shouldn't be removing any, but we don't help our case by being as loose with the facts as they are.
Nevilledog
(51,121 posts)Tickle
(2,525 posts)by any stretch but my cousin in 1986 was forced to do that. It was devastating. This was in Boston Massachusetts. My point is that this is not new procedure. if someone with an understanding of this would speak up I would appreciate it.
Iris
(15,659 posts)Who is the state
What is this staff members role
Is this a high school library?
How many books are still on the shelves?
What is available electronically?
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)This isn't about parental input for what kids read, it's actually the opposite. They want to take these decisions away from parents in regards to what their children read and give those decisions to the state or to a smaller set of extremist parents.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)Some pretty racy stuff in the Bible!