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Old 01-24-2023, 07:23 PM   #122
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Originally Posted by detbuch View Post
Yes you do. Because you said that this was under your notion of part of an entire Republican agenda. Different states have different policies. States run by Republican agendas do not all have the same policies. But you generalize a specific example to falsely paint a picture of being an "entire" agenda.

Here you give a broad brush example of a specific which is supposed to categorize an overall picture. You paint a singular hypothetical that is supposed to cover the entire range of the Republican agenda in the domain of books in school libraries.

As far as I know, Florida does not, in general, felonize giving an inappropriate book to a child. But in a Florida Public School classroom, the material must be, “free of pornography” and “appropriate for the age level and group.” Public schools throughout the nation have traditionally done this sort of thing. Who decides that is determined by district school boards. Florida House Bill 1467 makes what materials are being used and what are being considered for purchase far more transparent to the public and allows more public input. A major objection to it from the left is that it is an "extreme, developmentally inappropriate, and often outright harmful level of parental control over access to information". So who's freedom are we talking about here? The Freedom of the citizens, or the power of the bureaucracy? The bill empowers the citizens over the "system."

Allowing the people to have a say is not fascist. Telling the people to shut up and take it is.
It’s a class 3 felony for a teacher to give a “bad” book to a child, not a hypothesis.

ALEC currently has the same legislation in every Republican legislative body in the country.
Claiming it’s different in every one is baloney, the same people are funding and writing the bills nationwide.

Just what did Ron DeFascist tell Disney?
You think other weaker businesses didn’t see that?
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