Florida School Bans Book About Book Bans

Or maybe the school board just read the title and stopped right there, then proceeded as instructed.

 

After they ban that book they should steal this banger from The Coup

 

New season of GOT starts tonight.

Those of you who are wearing those wone out knee pads, get current or face The Breath!!

 

love the coup!!

 

and Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book

 

I dig My Favorite Mutiny.

In other words, the crackpot school board was saying . . .

 

Authoritarianism is an inclination of all groups with too much power. If it's your group with the power, you're ok with it. The good citizen in a democracy resists, even if it's the citizen's group with too much power.

Notice I didn't reference any particular group. It happens to be the GOP at this point in our history, but it could just as easily be the Democratic parry.

 

Reminds me of this, always stuck with me.

 

To be clear. My gif above was not my support for one sided censorship. It was me mocking the drama of the entire thing. All of it.

1.The fact that a book ripping banning books would be banned shouldn't really shock anyone.

2. The idea that such a book breeds "rebellion" is also being dramatic.

Drama. Drama. Drama.

The truth is, many subjects being banned today would have been banned in the past also. We don't have to keep sliding down the slope until there are absolutely no limits.

But limits on content have always existed, so can we all just calm down with the world is ending hyperbole?

And when countering the left can the right calm down on looking for a reason to flex?

It's all so tiring.

 

That's the second time recently that I've seen "flex" used. Does it mean as in "flex your muscles" or does it have a special meaning?

 

Yeah. The image of someone flexing to intimidate.

 

You used to use gifs like this in threads about Trump. Don't see that from you so much any more.

 

Sounds to me you’re agreeing with what one side does, which is fine. But, are you ignoring Republican gerrymandering? If you are, then you reflect the attitude that keeps the sides at each other’s throats. Each side has to recognize what it does wrong and seek compromise with the other side.

 

We both agree with that v