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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida school district pulls dictionaries for 'sexual conduct' descriptions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/11/florida-schools-ron-desantis-ban-books-sexual-contentApparently 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.
US-POLITICS-CONGRESSUS House of Representatives member-elect Maxwell Frost (C), Democrat of Florida, arrives for a group photo with member-elect Harriet Hageman (L), Republican of Wyoming, outside of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on November 15, 2022. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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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
When I worked for a doctors' office as a teen, in my spare time, I researched
no_hypocrisy
Jan 2024
#4
TheRickles
(2,151 posts)1. And don't forget the Bible. I hear that it contains some sexual content, too.
TwilightZone
(25,685 posts)3. Way more than any dictionary.
Demovictory9
(32,634 posts)2. Wow...what's left?
no_hypocrisy
(46,691 posts)4. When I worked for a doctors' office as a teen, in my spare time, I researched
all the "naughty" medical terminology.
My favorite to this date is "sexual congress" for f*cking.
bucolic_frolic
(44,069 posts)6. Sounds more like an orgy /nt
bucolic_frolic
(44,069 posts)5. Why stop there?
Many things connected to "sexual conduct". In supermarkets, what about milk & eggs?
Emile
(24,263 posts)7. I guess they will have to look up words on the internet
where there is no sexual content.