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New Jersey becomes latest state to prohibit bans on books (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago by annHowe to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/16010933

Source https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new-jersey-latest-state-prohibit-bans-books-school-116604778

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

A ban ban. How novel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The US is bifurcating. Has it ever been this divided since the Civil War? Maybe during the Jim Crow Era and the Civil Rights movement?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Book ban ban lol nice (seriously though this is good with all the red scare 3.0 shit getting pushed right now).

Well fuck they left open an exception for transphobia motivated bans

The bill permits restriction in the case of “developmentally inappropriate material” for certain age groups. The measure also requires local school boards and the governing bodies of public libraries to set up policies for book curation and the removal of library materials, including a way to address concerns over certain items.

Fuck this country

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The technical term is a book ban ban.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's crazy that such measures are necessary at all. Why are today's fascists still such fans of book bans? Because Hitler thought it was great?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Book bans are about control.

That's why it appeals to fascists.

[–] annHowe 3 points 1 week ago

Yes. That's probably one of the reasons.