An informal survey suggests that more than half of the librarians in Idaho are considering leaving their jobs.
      • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        This is exactly it. Conservatives don’t want free speech for others: they want free speech for themselves, which in their minds also means that no matter what they say nobody can react negatively to it in any way. They specifically don’t want anybody else to have any freedoms; the core of conservatism is social dominance over the Other

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      17·
      11 months ago

      It is a slightly amusing irony that this necessarily includes any books that tell kids that homosexuality is evil and wrong.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          10·
          11 months ago

          Probably not in any way that wouldn’t involve malicious compliance like putting them on a special bigotry display. They would have to write a law so long and with so many specificities that it would be virtually impossible. Maybe if they actually listed the “acceptable” books by name and said that they could not be mocked?

          • Confused_Emus@lemmy.world
            10·
            11 months ago

            I was thinking something like Christofascist parents bringing a list of books to the Christofascist school boards that have been deemed sufficiently full of hate as to be individually approved to be in the classroom.

            I dunno. I’m just so cynical on all this stuff these days that it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if they found a way. Keeping my fingers crossed I’m wrong.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              5·
              11 months ago

              That wouldn’t shock me since they’re already presenting lists of books that should be banned, but putting a list of the names of all of the approved books into law would be so unprecedented in terms of a first amendment violation that I don’t even think the SCOTUS we have now would be okay with it.

  • Digitalprimate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    11 months ago

    Unless you are white, male, CIS-het, and an evangelical Xian, they are coming for you to. You’re just a bit further down the list.

      • Digitalprimate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        They’re coming for you even then if you aren’t rich.

        Yep. There’s “rich” relative to most folks, then there is couldn’t-spend-all-my-interest-income-in-a-thousand-lifetimes rich.

        The real leopards know which is which.

  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
    35·
    11 months ago

    Damnit Idaho, again with the bad behavior :/ One of my niblings is trans, they’ve got to grow up in that state, it’s not going to be easy. I grew up in that state before I knew I was trans but everyone including me sensed something off and even that wasn’t easy. I wish there was more I could do from where I am now but best I know is to make sure they know I support them and have their back in what ways I can

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    29·
    11 months ago

    Freedom of speech baby. Some have it, some don’t.
    Americans are in the don’t category.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    29·
    11 months ago

    My wife is a librarian here in Indiana and they’ve already tried passing a law like this once, so I don’t have any doubts they will try again and it’s terrifying.

  • tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    11 months ago

    Don’t fuck with librarians… They have access to the chemistry books and are friends with the people who know how to use the magics contained within…

    Seriously though, if you are on the opposite side from librarians, you’re doing it wrong.