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Those books have been there likely for years, but only now they are an issue? SMDH.

I want to see all the youth that are corrupted by these books... while literally everyone has full access to the entire Internet on their phone. It's a hell of a lot easier to find graphic violence or pornography on a phone than in a library you nerds.

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See this is where you need Anonymous to hack into the accounts of these commissioners and expose any pornographic material they may posses on their computers or search histories. 

But yes, MAGAlano, let's get rid of libraries. Only dirty libs go there anyway. What with all their learnin' and whatnot. 

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I don't want to get into a logic of semantics debate with you assclowns, but this to me is essentially the same as "Well, if that hospital is gonna perform procedures we don't agree with...shut down the whole damn hospital!  We'd rather everyone suffer!"  

I mean, I've worked with library grants for a decade and I even I didn't know that you could just voluntarily shut down a fully-funded library for no reason.  It's like closing down a funded fire station.  Why would you even bother?  

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1 minute ago, YGIFS said:

I don't want to get into a logic of semantics debate with you assclowns, but this to me is essentially the same as "Well, if that hospital is gonna perform procedures we don't agree with...shut down the whole damn hospital!  We'd rather everyone suffer!"  

I mean, I've worked with library grants for a decade and I even I didn't know that you could just voluntarily shut down a fully-funded library for no reason.  It's like closing down a funded fire station.  Why would you even bother?  

Is the fire station woke? I hate woke. Texas is where woke goes to die. Puddin' cup told me that when he came to speak.

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I googled for the list of books they banned, and only found a "including these".  Not sure if this is the whole list or just the highlights.

 

  • Caste: The Origins of our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
  • Spinning by Tillie Walden
  • In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
  • It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health by Robie Harris
  • My Butt is So Noisy!; I Broke My Butt!; and I Need a New Butt! by Dawn McMillan
  • Larry the Farting Leprechaun; Gary the Goose and His Gas is on the Loose; Freddie the Farting Snowman; and Harvey the Heart Has Too Many Farts by Jane Bexley
  • Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
  • Shine; and Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale by Lauren Myracle 
  • Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
  • Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark

 

 

 

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If we do this right, we can wind up enough morons in Llano County via social media and letters to the editor to have these people come out in droves and physically burn the books from the library before it closes.  Would prove a very powerful image for happens when stupid people get ideas.  

$50 and my vast book collection says certain state legislatures are gonna skip the library step and start prohibiting the very publishing of these books on their state's soil.  Why bother with the school board/library book review commission when you can prevent the ideas from ever being mass produced in the first place?  

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25 minutes ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

I just hope no one tells them about the internet. I want it to be a surprise.

Texas legislature is already considering making Texans show a government-issued ID before viewing porn or R-rated stuff online, so don't count them out.  In theory the legislation will die in session because it hasn't advanced out of committee, but May is still a ways away.

4 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Not sure Oklahoma can even outdo the type of shit we're seeing down there in Texas.  I know UT is a bastion of civility in that state full of backward ass clowns but Jesus...

I'm expecting the legislature to full-on attack all public libraries in Texas.  It's coming, just a matter of when.

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It's not dumb. Scaring the shit out of mothers is the GOP strategy for getting their votes. It's a bloc they've been very poor at influencing unlike my fellow white males. They're finding their bait for the hook of hatred and fear.

In the past, this bouts of hysteria were at least founded in some errant moral/religious belief. The war on CRT, LGBTQ, and books that could make a child reflect on history are now just cynical moves to rustle the jimmies.

Absurd? Of coure it is, but these guerilla tactics in the school districts and public libraries are not to be laughed off. Reason will not prevail. When has it prevailed in the last ten years?

The enemies of the republic know what they're doing.

 

Edit to add that an article in New Yorker about this kind of activism finds that most of the agitators are not local. It's an oganized effort. 

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When the women in T-shirts first showed up, Welch had never heard of Moms for Liberty, and he didn’t recognize its members. The group’s leader, Robin Steenman, was in her early forties, with shoulder-length blond hair; in coloring and build, she resembled Marjorie Taylor Greene. Board of Education members struggled to understand why she’d inserted herself into a matter that didn’t concern her: Steenman had no children in the public schools.

Moms for Liberty members soon escalated the conflict, publicly asserting that Williamson County Schools had adopted Wit & Wisdom hurriedly, and in violation of state rules. The school board still wasn’t sure what Moms for Liberty was—who founded it, who funded it. 

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In September, 2020—four months after the murder of George Floyd, two months before the Presidential election, and a month into Williamson County Schools’ use of Wit & Wisdom—Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show, on Fox News, and called critical race theory “an existential threat to the United States.” Rufo capitalized on the fact that, given C.R.T.’s academic provenance, few Americans had heard of the concept. He argued that liberal educators, under the bland banner of “diversity,” were manipulating students into thinking of America not as a vibrant champion of democracy but as a shameful embodiment of white supremacy. (As he framed things, there were no in-between positions.) Rufo later called C.R.T. “the perfect villain”—a term that “connotes hostile, academic, divisive, race-obsessed, poisonous, elitist, anti-American views.”

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Last November, Glenn Youngkin, a candidate for the governorship of Virginia, won an upset victory after repeatedly warning that the “curriculum has gone haywire”—and promising to sign an executive order banning C.R.T. from schools. Jatia Wrighten, a political scientist at Virginia Commonwealth University, told the Washington Post that Youngkin had “activated white women to vote in a very specific way that they feel like is protecting their children.”

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On March 15, 2021, Rufo, in a tweet thread, overtly described a key element of the far right’s evolving strategy: “We have successfully frozen their brand—‘critical race theory’—into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category.” He added, “The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory.’ ”

That's enough. It's a New Yorker article so it goes on forever.

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14 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

I googled for the list of books they banned, and only found a "including these".  Not sure if this is the whole list or just the highlights.

 

  • Caste: The Origins of our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
  • Spinning by Tillie Walden
  • In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
  • It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health by Robie Harris
  • My Butt is So Noisy!; I Broke My Butt!; and I Need a New Butt! by Dawn McMillan
  • Larry the Farting Leprechaun; Gary the Goose and His Gas is on the Loose; Freddie the Farting Snowman; and Harvey the Heart Has Too Many Farts by Jane Bexley
  • Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
  • Shine; and Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale by Lauren Myracle 
  • Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
  • Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark

 

 

 

 

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34 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Not sure Oklahoma can even outdo the type of shit we're seeing down there in Texas.  I know UT is a bastion of civility in that state full of backward ass clowns but Jesus...

Llano, Fredricksburg, and Wimberley were all beautiful, wonderful places that have been ruined by stupid assholes.

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54 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

I mean, I've worked with library grants for a decade and I even I didn't know that you could just voluntarily shut down a fully-funded library for no reason.  It's like closing down a funded fire station.  Why would you even bother?  

It's a wonderful way to own the libz and make the government worse at the same time. It's a conservatives dream

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Today's Amazon order:

  • My Butt is So Noisy!; I Broke My Butt!; and I Need a New Butt! by Dawn McMillan
  • Larry the Farting Leprechaun; Gary the Goose and His Gas is on the Loose; Freddie the Farting Snowman; and Harvey the Heart Has Too Many Farts by Jane Bexley
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1 minute ago, BrickHorn said:

In a few years, underground pockets of resistance fighters will keep the torch of liberty burning by circulating bootleg copies of Larry the Farting Leprechaun.

I re-read "The Canticles of Leibowitz" awhile back, before all this anti-woke shit started.  It's a good story that's held up.  Reminds you of Farenheit 451.  And then my wife's cousin was in town the other day and we had a long night of intellectual conversations about knowledge and the church (he's a Jesuit priest).  And we talked about the history of his order keeping scientific knowledge alive in secret over the centuries as every third of fourth pope would order everything destroyed that was an affront to God.  But they kept the flame lit in secret.  

One day when my children are grown and have children of their own, there will be libraries named for librarians and educators that kept literature alive during this dark time in our history.  They will be the Jesuits of our era.  

"Huckleberry Finn" and other works like it didn't last 150 years to be taken down forever by some Karen Kunt Klanswoman.

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1 hour ago, mdmost said:

See this is where you need Anonymous to hack into the accounts of these commissioners and expose any pornographic material they may posses on their computers or search histories. 

Books yada yada but for real tho, can they really do this?  

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Having read hundreds of rural library grant applications for the Texas Book Festival, I can also tell you from the Dept. of Unintended Consequences.  Rural libraries in Texas aren't just about grooming kids.  These are social and civic hubs.  Many counties in Texas don't have 50 meeting spot options for senior citizens, after-school tutoring, civic groups, book clubs, retirees, scouting, volunteer groups, et. al.  On weekends and evenings, it's the local library or bust.  You take away the books if you need to, but you cut off the G&A budget, and that community is proper fucked.  Not every shithole Texas county has a hate-fueled Cracker Barrel to rally around.  

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I served on the board for nearly a decade.  In addition to the festival proper, we do year around reading programs with authors in Texas public schools and also dole out library grants (typically to either very urban or very rural libraries that are underfunded).  It's not like a "platinum status" flex.  I'm a long-winded asshole, we all get it.  But libraries and literacy are important to me, I've busted my ass to improve them in my state, and it'd be weird for me to lie about that.  Call me all the names you want, but c'mon with the George Santos comparison.  I've worked my tail off for TBF and am goddamn proud for my service.  

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8 hours ago, YGIFS said:

It's like closing down a funded fire station.  Why would you even bother?  

Back in the late 80's there was a fight over the Chico VFD. They wanted to buy a new truck or something, can't remember exactly what touched off the fight. Anyway, the old leaders started a new VFD and for about 2 years they fought over who got to fight the fires and get the subsidy from the county. The old guys wound up with faster response times (since most were retired and didn't have jobs) and forced the original VFD into selling their equipment and closing. It would have been funny if it wasn't so stupid.

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17 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:


Wait until Llano finds out that the LFP put out fires at homes owned by minorities.

I just realized it accidentally.  It's a thread about books, and then somehow we all got to talking (organically) about fire stations.  JFC.  A Ray Bradbury novel is unfolding in our state in real time.  I don't want to get all Brisketexan on y'all, but I think about Margaret Atwood's conversation years ago and Trump.  And she said she couldn't make this kinda shit up for a work of fiction.  And we're probably just months away from a local VFD justifying its budget by burning the contents of a library.  Few years ago, all this shit would be paranoid hyperbole.  But a county pretty close to where I live is going to completely eviscerate an entire library system.  My own daughter's school library is canceling books left and right.  And the Texas Legislature has decided that instead of being viewed as intervening in local control, they're just gonna ban the physical publishing of certain books, their shipping into Texas, and then come for the online versions after that.  

And I am frequently reminded of watching a WWII documentary with my father when I was very young.  His father was a WWII vet and my father was a military history major in his short time in college.  I was maybe 7 years old.  But he wanted me to see it-images of the holocaust, bomb raids over London, island hopping slaughters in the South Pacific, train cars filled with Jews and Writers, death and destruction all across the planet.  And then a solitary clip of German children about my age tossing books into a massive pile with smiles as wide as Christmas Morning.  And I remember, for the rest of my life, he looked at me and said these chilling words, "That was actually the most dangerous thing they ever did."  And my little brain thought how the fuck is book burning worse than hauling off people for mass slaughter?  And he paused and said, "Once the Nazis took away individual thinking...the rest was easy."

Llano will be our Alexandria.  And most of our state will celebrate it.

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2 minutes ago, Bookman said:

There was a period of my life when I went to the Llano Public Library every morning to use the free Internet, and back then it certainly got a lot of use.

Interesting way to admit you jerked off in public, no judgement ;) 

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