@Aroace tiger- Banning books while pushing for laws requiring every school child to read the Bible. 🙄 You can’t make this stuff up.

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Of course the Bible or any religious text shouldn’t be in schools. I believe in 100% separation of church and state. But requiring books to be age appropriate isn’t banning them.

True, but banning them IS BANNING THEM. They aren't moving them to another section of the library titled by age, they are removing them from the library because somebody decided they don't think children, that aren't their children, should read them. They must have forgotten that their children, can find much worse on the phone that's in their hand.

You move them from the elementary school library, to the high school library.

No, the Republicans just throw them in dumpsters.

Buzzy, I guarantee we didn’t and don’t have the same level of reading comprehension. Who are you (or anyone) to say what’s age appropriate? Oh, it includes rape and 12 or 13 year olds shouldn’t be reading about that? Are you kidding?

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So you think a 7-8 year old in second grade should have the same reading material as juniors in high school, or freshman in college?

Buzzy, I think children's parents should be making those choices, not you, me or politicians, librarians or teachers.. and especially not "moms for liberty"

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Except the “progressives” don’t want parents involved. Student changes pronouns? Hide it from the parents. Student wants a chest binder? Hide it from the parents. You can’t have it both ways.

CajunBreaux - Out of the 70,000+ public schools in the USA, please name the ones where this is happening. Please be specific. I'm sure there are thousands, because why such a fuss over 1 or 2, right?! So, to make it easier, you only have to list as many as BP will let you fit in a comment. I'd like to look into this further, as I for one, appreciate FACTS. Thanks in advance!

I bet CajunBreaux believed the lie about litterboxes in bathrooms too.

@Aroace tiger could you clarify who "we" is please?

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We are now, don't you know what is happening out there? 😔

Did Tori miss the /s at the end of her comment?

I like you, Arkham.

@Arkham Wohlfert Serious question - why are all Murricans Online™ religious and political extremists? The attitude appears to be "everything we do is right and must never be questioned, everything the other side do is wrong by default. They're so stupid the we should ban them from speaking, and we should remove their right to vote because we all know they'll get it wrong". It's exactly the same regardless if they worship the blue Ayatollah or the red Ayatollah, it's the *exact* same behaviour. Is there any kind of reason behind it do you know, or is it just one of those "we've always done it this way" things?

Ummm… What, Steve?

Is that a “level of reading comprehension” issue Nikole?

No, it’s a “Steve is rambling and is completely incorrect” issue.

@ChickyChicky- “Woke” means being consciously aware and attentive to important social issues, typically related to racial and social injustices. Some Americans feel history relating to the civil rights of black people and Native Americans is considered “offensive.”

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Calling mothers “birthing persons”, calling breastfeeding “chest feeding”, calling men “persons with a penis”. That’s what people are referring to when they use woke in a way you don’t agree with. There are hundreds of examples like this. A grown ąss college student being “triggered” or needing a “safe space” when they are exposed to opinions and world views different from their own.

Conservatives are snowflakes, holy hell. And so small minded to think that just because they don't personally benefit from changes like more inclusive language, that change has no reason to exist.

What's wrong with those terms? How does it hurt others to use those terms? That's weird that "chestfeeding" is on that list. I am a woman, both by sex and gender. I did a form of "chestfeeding" with my baby because she wouldn't latch at first. A tube was taped to my chest and we used a syringe to put pumped milk into her while we tried to get her to latch. Eventually she figured it out and was simply breastfed. Chestfeeding is a feeding technique, same as bottle feeding. Strange that someone would be offended by that.

Everything is wrong with those terms. It tries to erase womanhood. They try to hide the fact that men and women are different. The word for a person with a penis is man. The word for someone who can give birth is woman.

Intersex people exist. How does using more inclusive terms hurt you?