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Publisher sues Escambia over book removal

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by rivergator, May 17, 2023.

  1. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    It's quite a place that Florida is carving out for itself. Is a Scopes monkey trial in our future?

    Florida county school district sued by largest U.S. publisher over book ban
     
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  2. mrhansduck

    mrhansduck GC Hall of Fame

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    Escambia County, located in Florida's panhandle and home to Pensacola...

    Sorry again, guys. It's crazy up here.
     
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  3. jjgator55

    jjgator55 VIP Member

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    That’s going to leave a mark but if the school district is just following state law then what’s the basis for the suit? All the state will do is hold them harmless so they can’t be sued.
     
  4. Emmitto

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    1st and 14th, I would guess. The county via the school board is the party that ordered the books removed, not the state. That law doesn’t ban a single book. But it (might) give(s) cover for book bans. I suppose we’ll find out because that will have to be the defense.

    The law doesn’t say to ban all the non-white and straight materials. Although that’s obviously the intent it isn’t that brazen. But now that that is the documented outcome, there is a way to litigate. But you have to sue the actual perpetrators of the action.

    A court is not an agent of the state. I believe Florida elects their circuit and county judges. I of course understand the recent vigor and success by the conservative movement to capture judiciaries to make this a moot point, but no court *should* simply rubber stamp any state law, illegal ones pass all the time. That is the ostensible point of separating legislators and judiciaries.
     
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  5. Gatorrick22

    Gatorrick22 GC Hall of Fame

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    LMFAO! Since when do publishers have the right to tell libraries which books that have to keep in their library? That's like a food product seller telling Publix which food they have to sell... or that they have to sell their food in Publix.

    Publishers DICTATING to Libraries which books to carry... Lol.

    Let us know when Playboy and Hustler sue Libraries for not showing their published works.
     
  6. docspor

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    but BIG GOV doing is perfectly fine!

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  7. Gatorrick22

    Gatorrick22 GC Hall of Fame

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    Lol.. yeah, We in the U.S.A. still have regulations and laws. But we are free to elect those that can change them... Say hello to your master Xj jinping.
     
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  8. Swamplizard

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    People who don't even live here complaining about living here? You can buy those books at any book store they just don't allow them in schools
     
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  9. Gatorrick22

    Gatorrick22 GC Hall of Fame

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    Yep, freedom and accessibility. BOOM!!
     
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    108 Premium Member

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    If parents have the right to get books removed based on their own bigotry, do other parents have the right to put them back, or is this just a one way street?
     
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  11. pkaib01

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    You can say that about any book in a library. Having to take your child to the book store to buy a book may be time and cost prohibitive for parents.

    library - A collection or group of collections of books and/or other print or nonprint materials organized and maintained for use.

    Benefits of a school library include resource access and the promotion of literacy. Students may not be aware of interests until they discover them by browsing. That discovery may be important to spark the love of reading. I know it was for me.

    I can't believe I have to explain libraries to an adult.
     
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  12. Orange_and_Bluke

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    No please keep your libbie trash out of the schools.
     
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  13. BigCypressGator1981

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    My hometown. A never ending source of shame and disappointment.
     
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  14. ajoseph

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    My big question to all of the pro-censors is this: Why don’t you police what your own child reads, and let other parents police what their child reads? Why do the censors get to hide books from others, merely because they find it offensive?!?! Start parenting your own child.
     
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  15. G8tas

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    I am just waiting for someone to file a complaint against every book in a school district and have every book in every library removed. Including text books
     
  16. ajoseph

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    I’d hope not, because it is nauseating to see children used as pawns in MAGA’s Hate War.
     
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  17. Swamplizard

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    Captain Underpants was banned from school libraries at one point so was the goose bump series school libraries are just that school libraries. There are public libraries that carry all the books you could want you can download them online also it's a shame an "adult" doesn't know that.....
     
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  18. pkaib01

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    ah... moving the ole goalposts. shame on you.
     
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  19. Swamplizard

    Swamplizard VIP Member

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    whataboutism shame on you
     
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  20. pkaib01

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    What is the whataboutism? Do I have to explain that term to you too?