While I didn't think that they would go after a dictionary, it's not surprising that fascists would go after a book full of definitions.

Check this bit from the end:

In a brief submitted by the State of Florida in support of Escambia, Attorney General Ashley Moody argued that the school board could ban books for any reason because the purpose of public school libraries is to "convey the government’s message," and that can be accomplished through "the removal of speech that the government disapproves."

I'm not surprised. I haven't read the dictionary but people tell me it talks all about what homosexuals are and what transgender means and it actually defines the word 'lesbian!'

I hope they've alerted their groundskeepers that all trees, shrubs, bushes, and flowers must be mowed over, because pollen and flowers are Nature's pole-dancers and sluts. Not sure if they can have grass.

Parents NEED to lodge formal complaints with the police and school boards in EVERY district that still has dictionaries and encyclopedias in the libraries.

Whittle down every district until they're only allowed to work on coloring books for every grade K-12, or as close as they can get.

Don't forget to target private schools with massive social media campaigns to inform all parents that dictionaries = grooming. If the private schools refuse to respond, convince the dumber wealthy parents to pull their kids and put them into a safe school, without books.

because it exposes students to "alternate sexual ideologies." Baggett said she was concerned "a second grader would read this book, and that idea would pop into the second grader's mind… that these are two people of the same sex that love each other."

This is the kind of people we are dealing with. They are literally trying to prevent children from developing accepting attitudes towards minorities. That is their stated goal. It's not often I read such blatant disgusting hatred coming from a teacher. The book she was referencing was And Tango makes three. Which is unbelievable in the context of her statement. Were the penguins, who were real actual penguins, somehow a part of an "alternate sexual ideology"? How badly rotten does your brain have to be to think "sexual ideology" when you see 2 penguins raising a baby together?

That book defines "racism" and "slavery" and may contain examples. Conservatives definitely don't want white kids finding out their ancestors may have been conservatives.

Is no one else looking at this line the school district is at this point just pulling every possible book that could match the description of the law in purpose to make a point?

One teacher made a complaint about a couple of books so they said fine, well just remove everything else that this bill could possibly touch. Just to prove how ambiguous and far stretching this law can go?

Of course they shouldn't pull a dictionary but it matches the description. This is to test the law.

/m/MaliciousCompliance is leaking :D

Fantastic. Now those pesky kids won’t know what fascism means.

HB 1069 gives residents the right to demand the removal of any library book that "depicts or describes sexual conduct," as defined under Florida law, whether or not the book is pornographic.

I was going to ask how their bible gets around this, but then I found several instances of its removal in Florida.

These librarians. I like them. Assuming they're doing this as a statement.

Not sure I trust a librarian that writes "indefinately"

The reality in Escambia County serves as a rejoinder to DeSantis, who has described concerns about book removals as a "leftist activist hoax" and a "false political narrative."

If Floridians had a dictionary to look up "rejoinder" with, they'd be very upset.

Soon: "All books are now banned because they contain the letters L, G, B, T and Q. Any books containing these five letters will now be banned from public libraries."

Guess they got tired tired of hearing "words have meanings" in response to their mindless rambling.

Fascism

I thought this was an Onion article when I saw the title.

I wish I was right.

We should also ban math books, and history books. Full of sexual descriptions and imagery. Ban economy books too, full baabout advice on how to rape the poor, and the bible too with its incest and rape stories, and you know, let's ban all the books and then just go to school to hold hands and sing hallelujah and praise Jesus.

I see a number of Republican politicians getting very wet at this idea...

They did keep guns though. Those are more important.

DeSantis has a stranglehold on people here in FL because he kept stuff open during Covid. So people mindlessly co-sign everything he does and Dems pretty much have given up here. They are going after all forms of education and history they don't agree with.

With rights to request removal of books when they have descriptions of sexual activity, I'd say the bible is definitely a prime target. It has incest, rape, and even those are kind of fan favorites for republican politicians, they too must recognize that Bible's are evil and must be banned.

lol to the bit about Atlas Shrugged. Although yeah there are a few passages in there that are basically erotica, forgot about that. It's been a long time but I remember them being "NC-17" not "R" rated.

(usual thing I have to say here about this book here: I'm aware it's badly written and terrible as philosophy excersize, I just liked my steam-punk sci-fi with trains)