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erronis

(15,817 posts)
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 09:24 PM Jan 2024

Florida school district pulls dictionaries for 'sexual conduct' descriptions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/11/florida-schools-ron-desantis-ban-books-sexual-content

Apparently that also means that legal texts that discuss sexual acts/predation must be censored. Next: the courts will not accept any word that denotes sex: "man", "woman", "she", "he", ........

A Florida school district is facing a federal lawsuit after it decided to remove copies of dictionaries, encyclopedia and other books because the works included descriptions of “sexual conduct”.
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The Escambia county school district, located in Pensacola, Florida, removed several dictionaries and encyclopedias from school libraries after school officials determined that the books violated Florida law HB 1069.

The law, signed by the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, last year, restricts access to materials containing “sexual conduct” in Florida classrooms.
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Florida school district pulls dictionaries for 'sexual conduct' descriptions (Original Post) erronis Jan 2024 OP
And don't forget the Bible. I hear that it contains some sexual content, too. TheRickles Jan 2024 #1
Way more than any dictionary. TwilightZone Jan 2024 #3
Wow...what's left? Demovictory9 Jan 2024 #2
When I worked for a doctors' office as a teen, in my spare time, I researched no_hypocrisy Jan 2024 #4
Sounds more like an orgy /nt bucolic_frolic Jan 2024 #6
Why stop there? bucolic_frolic Jan 2024 #5
I guess they will have to look up words on the internet Emile Jan 2024 #7

no_hypocrisy

(46,691 posts)
4. When I worked for a doctors' office as a teen, in my spare time, I researched
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 09:34 PM
Jan 2024

all the "naughty" medical terminology.

My favorite to this date is "sexual congress" for f*cking.

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