Thursday, March 23, 2023

Remember When Republicans Were All About "Small Government"?

Yeah, that was actually kinda nice.
One R rep repeated a regular talking point: if parents knew what was on the shelf, they would want this government oversight.
What, the classroom is closed to them?  They're afraid of books?  Of ideas? Do they imagine school teachers keep The Story of O on their shelves? Or Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book? Or The Communist Manifesto?

One of those is hard-core porn.  The others would just be incomprehensible to most public school students.  I was reading Kierkegaard in high school, and while it wasn't the Sunday school lesson I'd gotten in church, it was actually 20 years later before I really began to understand it.  

"Inappropriate" is such a stupid standard for censorship.  Hard-core porn is unsuitable for anybody.  Below that, you're just fretting that your kid will know something you don't.  And frankly, I don't want government oversight over that my kid can read in a public school.

I'm guessing these people don't give their kids much access to books anyway.  That's not a reason to use government to keep my kids, or everybody else's kids, away from books.
Is it fascism if it only takes one person to overrule all the rest of us? Asking for a friend...

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