• @Case
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    3 days ago

    As a Texan, this makes me happy.

    I don’t believe in book bans. If a kid can read it, they should. Will they agree with the message? Maybe, maybe not. However, they were exposed to different thoughts. This isn’t a bad thing. It is up to the reader to determine how valid that line of thinking is in their life.

    The bible… whew, the bible… Violence, sexuality, fucking incest, rape, etc. It isn’t a “clean” book.

    However, if they’re gonna ban books for questionable material, the fucking bible is chock full of it.

    I say this as someone who had southern baptist grandparents I spent the summer with, and have read the bible cover to cover more times than I ever cared to, but it was the only reading material available.

    • Flying Squid
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      273 days ago

      I wouldn’t complain if they banned truly dangerous books… like Atlas Shrugged or anything written by a Republican politician.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 days ago

        Then you’re exactly the same as the people who passed the book ban in the first place.

        If your ideas cannot stand up to the existence of other ideas, then they aren’t good ideas.

        • Flying Squid
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          62 days ago

          And if you can’t take an obvious joke, then you’re in the wrong part of the internet.