And now they're advocating book burning....

[Nevilledog]

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Jeffrey Sachs
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A Virginia school board has ordered schools to begin removing "sexually explicit" books from high school libraries. Two board members have urged the district to burn them as well.

https://fredericksburg.com/news/local/education/spotsylvania-school-board-orders-libraries-to-remove-sexually-explicit-books/article_6c54507a-6383-534d-89b9-c2deb1f6ba17.html…
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10:31 AM · Nov 10, 2021

https://fredericksburg.com/news/local/education/spotsylvania-school-board-orders-libraries-to-remove-sexually-explicit-books/article_6c54507a-6383-534d-89b9-c2deb1f6ba17.html


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The criteria for pulling books from circulation this week is “sexually explicit,” but the board plans to refine how material is determined to be “objectionable” for a further review of library holdings.

The board voted 6–0 to order the removal. Berkeley District representative Erin Grampp was not in attendance for the vote on that issue.

Two board members, Courtland representative Rabih Abuismail and Livingston representative Kirk Twigg, said they would like to see the removed books burned.

“I think we should throw those books in a fire,” Abuismail said, and Twigg said he wants to “see the books before we burn them so we can identify within our community that we are eradicating this bad stuff.”

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[Journeyman]

1. Shades of Drake, North Dakota . . .

[iemanja]

2. There is no dystopian novel that they won't emulate

The Handmaid's Tale and now Fahrenheit 451.

Life is stranger than fiction.

[Srkdqltr]

3. Wait... the dirty old men have to read them first.

[Celerity]

4. ages are prototypes of other ages, the winding course of time brings us round to the same spot again

[Carlitos Brigante]

5. But whatever you do don't call them...

[Whiskeytide]

6. Burning books is in the second chapter of the ...

… fascist handbook, so I’m surprised it took them this long to get to it. But, you know, that handbook is a book, so…

[irisblue]

7. May 1933

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/book-burning.

"The book burnings stood as a powerful symbol of Nazi intolerance and censorship."

Much much much more at the citation

[madaboutharry]

8. I would wager that most of the people on this school board haven't

read a book since 10th grade.

Does anyone believe these people have read any of the books they want banned? I am almost certain they haven't.

[Solly Mack]

9. The dangers of authoritarians with even a little power. They seek to suppress and even that's not

enough for them - they seek to destroy.

[kairos12]

10. "Where they burn books, they will burn ultimately burn people also."

Heinrich Heine.