100 year old woman provides a dose of reality on book bannings

There is none so blind as those who refuse to see. Akin to alcohol? Are the titles in question illegal.... yet? Are those titles addictive, or a physical health risk, or fatal? The books are simply casualties in the invented culture war of a political party. Censorship.... all the really good fascists do it.

 

I guess if parents do not want their children to read books about the Holocaust or the history of racism in the US including slavery or do not want their children exposed to the existence of LGBT persons they should have that option. And once again what's inappropriate for elementary school children would be appropriate for older children.

Although you apparently read it, it seems that you completely missed the message of this post.

 

"We had good reasons for restricting alcohol to kids, but you don't have good reasons for only providing age appropriate books in school libraries for children."

 

I guess if teachers and librarians do not want students to read books about the Holocaust or the history of racism in the US including slavery or do not want students exposed to the existence of LGBT persons, they should have that option.

 

Apparently you missed my response:

 

Not all drinks (or unhealthy drinks for that matter) are being banned in school, only alcoholic ones.

Your analogy on the other hand is sheer nonsense because schools or children or anybody we deem incapable of informed consent have no part of that analogy.

 

My analogy stands. I didn't move the goalposts.

Are all books being banned in schools? If not, does that automatically mean no books are being banned in schools?

 

I guess we never made it out of prohibition.

 

You see, jj, that's the problem. Parents saw what schools were teaching their kids during COVID. These "professionals" have lost their trust.

So the question becomes "who do you trust more raising your kids?" You? Or some government bureaucrat?

 

From where jj?

 

• I agree and fully understand the libertarian positions on what a government should and shouldn’t be. I think that their perspective deserves a seat at the table as an “honest broker”. Both major parties have contributed to the shitshow that is the current state of affairs in the US. Name the issue, both are at fault and neither has a solution. Healthcare? Both parties contributed to the current shitshow called Obamacare.
  
  Deficit/Debt? Neither has done a thing except print and spend.
  
  The list can go on but you get the point.
  
  I believe that the libertarian position of dismantling the overreach of the USG has to start with redefining what the government will and won’t do and reset spending to those levels.

 

No, he's not. Parents can provide kids with whatever books they want provided that they're not pornographic. Kids can take pretty much all of these books to school, yes even the Hank Aaron book. All this is about is instruction provided by the school and books available in school libraries.

"The state should have the responsibility to determine what's in course curriculum, but the problem lies when the state determines what's in course curriculum."