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I hate kneejerk bullshit, so this teacher is going to teach some real shit books because the author included enough hate speech and perversion that it's clearly not suitable for school age kids?
You think the media teacher has the same attitude 'they said I couldn't show you this in class but screw them! get ready for hard core porn...'
There have been good books banned but also we need to be reasonable and live in reality, not all books are suitable for children. The conversation should be about criteria for banning books in school or the process, etc. it's incredibly dumb just saying 'i don't care if it's three hundred pages of glorified rape and racism if you try to stop me teaching it to children you're the baddie'
And yes I know 'but we actually mean something different to the meme we're upvoting...' it's ok upvote this post because I do too, right, that's how it works?
It's so strange that you clearly understand the intent of the comic, but are still getting wound up by something you admit the comic isn't saying at all.
I know what it's trying to say but it's not saying that - this is defund the police all over again, why is it so hard to say fund better alternatives rather than relying on police in situations they're not suitable...
Like this is a very simple logic on the comic, banned book list becomes reading list - a commonly held foolish notion it seems. This isn't what anyone wants to happen, everyone here minus a few wingnuts is saying that it should be a process based on merit - one person even said it should be tasked to people with masters degrees in determining suitability of literature for children.
What's the next one 'kick puppies' where we say everyone should kick puppies,' by which we mean of course stroke them gently and cuddle with them.
I don't understand why supporting sensible thungs that might actually convince people is anathema to the left. You don't need to just say the dumbest thing and hope people assume you mean something totally different and sensible.