US Politics Thread

Trevor Morley's Tache said:
You've read it then, or did you just listen to the carefully selected reading by Senator Kennedy?
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You don't believe what he read is pornographic? It doesn't matter if the rest of the book is about picking daisies.

It's banned for a reason.

www.marshall.edu

Banned Books 2024 - All Boys Aren't Blue

Banned Books 2024 - Marshall University Libraries - George M. Johnson's Lawn Boy. Page on books banned/challenged around the United States for various reasons over the past year. Ron Titus
www.marshall.edu
 
mexico1970 said:
You don't believe what he read is pornographic? It doesn't matter if the rest of the book is about picking daisies.

It's banned for a reason.

www.marshall.edu

Banned Books 2024 - All Boys Aren't Blue

Banned Books 2024 - Marshall University Libraries - George M. Johnson's Lawn Boy. Page on books banned/challenged around the United States for various reasons over the past year. Ron Titus
www.marshall.edu
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Do you actually understand how those books make it onto the 'banned' list?

In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a noncommittal ruling. In Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico (1982), the Court deemed that “local school boards have broad discretion in the management of school affairs” and that discretion “must be exercised in a manner that comports with the transcendent imperatives of the First Amendment.” In essence, a single school board member, unqualified in the field of education can propose that a book be banned because they personally 'find it offensive'.

Given that all those school districts quoted on the Marshal Libraries list for that particular publication are deep red/ultra-conservative in terms of their politics (and largely religious, aka hypocrites) you don't think that might be why it is banned?

Edit: I'll just add that the Supreme Court at that time (1982) was a 10:2 Republican nominated majority.
 
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mexico1970 said:
You don't believe what he read is pornographic? It doesn't matter if the rest of the book is about picking daisies.

It's banned for a reason.

www.marshall.edu

Banned Books 2024 - All Boys Aren't Blue

Banned Books 2024 - Marshall University Libraries - George M. Johnson's Lawn Boy. Page on books banned/challenged around the United States for various reasons over the past year. Ron Titus
www.marshall.edu
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No, as I'm aware of the context, it is a quote from a piece of literature, a memoir from a respected author/journalist, and not a quote from Debbie Does Dallas.

There is a difference between literature and pornography.

I'm going to make a presumption from our interactions on this topic, that you believe any description of a sexual act is pornographic and books that contain any reference to a sexual act should be banned from High Schools?
 
ROCKET80 said:
No, as I'm aware of the context, it is a quote from a piece of literature, a memoir from a respected author/journalist, and not a quote from Debbie Does Dallas.

There is a difference between literature and pornography.

I'm going to make a presumption from our interactions on this topic, that you believe any description of a sexual act is pornographic and books that contain any reference to a sexual act should be banned from High Schools?
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Presumably, this is also pornographic?

 
mexico1970 said:
You don't believe what he read is pornographic? It doesn't matter if the rest of the book is about picking daisies.
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Without wading into the fray very deeply having no familiarity with the book as a whole but having read this thread and taking everyone’s comments as truthful and at face value . . . I’d actually say it matters a lot.
 
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