Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries. The guidance by Charlotte County Superintendent Mark Vianello and the school board’s attorney, Michael McKinley, was obtained by the Florida Freedom to Read Project (FFTRP) through a public records request and shared with Popular Information. FFTRP requested “electronic records of district and school decisions regarding classroom and library materials.” In response, FFTRP received a document memorializing a July 24 conversation between Vianello and district librarians, known in Florida as media specialists.
Uh, “LOL 1A?”
“But the gays are yucky and the founding fathers obviously meant no Constitution for yucky people” /s
It’s alright people, we can pretend that portion of the population just simply doesn’t exist and all will go back as it was in 1950.
Well jeez, at least it only sucked for gay people in 1950!
It’s a school board which afaik had nothing to do with DeSantis. Well, maybe DeSantis pushed passed the kind of less that authorized school boards play around like this.
But this is more of a direct result of residents of the county voting this kind of people for school board (or… only a specific group attending the ballot and others sleeping) and the people elected by the citizens in that county doing banning things like that.
I think US could be a much better place if simply everyone went to ballot
Imagine being that afraid of who other people love. The world has never seen such cowardice.
They’re just afraid of love in general. All fascists are. LGBT people just get it worse and (since they’re minorities and thus easy to target) first.
So what happens to the books that get removed?
Trash? Donated to public libraries?
Something something Celsius 232.8
Wait, was the book title actually localized to Celsius when it was exported? In America the original book is titled Fahrenheit 451, which honestly rolls off the tongue fairly well.
I think they said it the way they did to make it clear they were talking about the library books burning, rather than referring to the book with that title
No too my knowledge the titwl was never localised in any way besides too accomadate other languages ways of writing fahrenheit
Wow purging lgbtq books in Florida while Ontario is purging any book written before 2008… can we all please stop purging books it never ends well!
Jesus told me to love my brother 👀
Allegories aside, the Bible definitely has a few LGBTQ characters, even if they’re not portrayed in a very positive light. I suppose that means they’ll be banning the Bible from school libraries? Not to mention a fair amount of historical literature… including anything featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Florence Nightingale, King James (yes, that King James), William Shakespeare, King Richard I, or Julius Caesar.
It will be interesting to see whether this makes the history classes easier, for lack of material to cover, or harder, for lack of references.
Isn’t Joseph’s pronoun in Hebrew she/her? Hence the perfume cart and the shocking response from pharoahs wife once “he” was naked?
And my step brother 👀
This is about homophobia not being appropriate or not.
Florida has really turned into crap over the past few years. Politically, it wasn’t great to begin with, but it has certainly gone south for a while now.
Please support Foundation 451 and consider donating. It is a Florida teacher-led organization that has already provided thousands of banned books to Florida students and is opening up banned book libraries all over the state.
Meh. Teachers should just lead themselves to different states and let the effects take care of florida.
If they want to be a bunch of uneducated slaves, go right ahead.
Do you have any idea what teachers in Florida make? That aside, pushing all the good teachers out of the state is exactly what DeSantis wants. They’ve drastically lowered the qualifications necessary to be a teacher. You seem to understand why. Why do you think they’ll stop with Florida.
Why do you think they’ll stop with Florida.
Because other places will have learned from florida’s mistakes, and they’ll be better educated.
That’s very optimistic, but nooses never loosen. You have to cut them off entirely.
The republican long game is to make public education so terrible and underfunded the next step is to abolish it. Then it’s expensive private Christian schools for those that can afford it, which is less and less each year, and sotdrt for the rest, which has very little to no oversight depending on what state you live in. Then straight from “graduation” to for-profit prisons, the military, or wage-slaving to make billionaires richer.
Cruz seems to be hopeful that segregation (oops I mean school choice) will be allowed back in schools in the next couple years
Is the goal to create places so inhospitable to open minds, that those who possess a shred of empathy flee, creating a conservative gravity well of votes? Is that even sustainable
I don’t know whether to be appalled or hope that the gravity well becomes large enough it generates an event horizon that no stupidity could cross out of.
'Wish I could upvote a second time for great use of the term “event horizon”!
“We’re leaving.”
“No, we can’t leave. Our orders are specific.”
“Rescue the liberals, salvage what’s left of Florida. The liberals are dead, doctor. Florida killed them.”
“Where we’re going you don’t need books to read.”
Something something accretion disk
That’s half the goal.
The other half is to make areas so hostile that the people who can’t flee just keep their heads down and stay closeted so no one hurts them.
And to increase suicides
The goal is to create little Republicans.
I have a high school age kid in rural FL. If that is the intended effect, it’s not working.
I work at a high school (in a library, actually) in California, and we’ve had student walkouts for much less. Are the angry students doing any major protesting that you’ve seen? Or are the schools cracking down so hard already and they don’t want to risk it, or a high enough percentage of kids are assholes so they mock kids who care and it keeps those kids from protesting? I’m sure there’s a lot happening that we don’t hear about, so I’m curious what it’s like for Gen Z who overall doesn’t seem to stand for bigotry in general.
They haven’t finished fucking with the educational system yet.
Florida the fascist state.
Fuck censorship - posted for the kids of Charlotte County.
can somebody actually do something about the continually encroaching evil? i feel like you shouldn’t be able to demand that
I keep thinking about the 1960s and the feds. Florida has to he breaking federal laws.
Mass organisation would work. Protests and strikes. Not just from LGBT+ people, but from the population broadly. But that seems unlikely, sadly.
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The only person you can rely on to stop them is yourself first, then second everyone else.
Start by killing the Nazi in your own head, to paraphrase a slogan. Then oppose them and find others to oppose them.
Only one thing could have broken our movement — if the adversary had understood its principle and from the first day had smashed, with the most extreme brutality, the nucleus of our new movement.
A paraphrase/translation from Hitler.
Understand them. Do not mistake their intentions. Do not think they only want what they say they want or that they will only use their current methods to get it. They want genocide and they’ll use whatever means they think they can get away with to get it.
That means opposing them at every turn everywhere you see them in your own life and encouraging others to do the same
I also think Hitler suffered from a lack of imagination. It’s not only crushing their movement that will stop them, though that is vital. In the long term, and we may still be at a moment where we can worry about the long term, building a world that takes their power away is also a solution. Even better is building a world where they couldn’t take power to begin with.
Build a world where LGBT people are not an easy target and the fascists will stop having them to be an easy (first) target. Build a world where low grade scam artists like Desantis can’t take over a state and it’ll make the next Desantis have to do that much more work. (Admittedly that probably does require abandoning our current democracy…)
When is DeSantis holding the book burning?
