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A book about late Afro-Puerto Rican MLB legend Roberto Clemente can’t be found in the shelves of public school libraries in Florida’s Duval County these days.
“Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates” by Jonah Winter and Raúl Colón — and other books about Latino figures such as the late Afro-Cuban salsa singer Celia Cruz and Justice Sonia Sotomayor — are among the more than 1 million titles that have been “covered or stored and paused for student use” at the Duval County Public Schools District, according to Chief Academic Officer Paula Renfro.
School officials are in the process of determining if such books comply with state laws and can be included in school libraries.
Welp.
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"my struggle" has been rewritten as a picture book by ben shapiro, and will be required reading for all elementary schoolers in florida.
I come from a reasonably strict background. My parents were teetotalers, dragged us to church and refused to let me see R rated movies until my senior year and made me do a lot of sports and social activities. It seemed incredibly restrictive compared to my peers but I'm glad they did it now.
EDIT: Also Ted Frank:
Preferably by sawing it off and letting it float out into the Atlantic. It can then declare itself the Peoples Republic of DeSantisgrad and live happily ever.
RDS will declare his POTUS candidacy sometime between June and August so you, the even further-left geniuses here, and very-online MAGA types might wish to prepare by stocking up on copium.
It is sad as I used to enjoy going there - my parents used to go there in the winter and many of their friends there seemed like good people, but given many voted for that hateful monster I seriously wonder.
I know a few transgender people, including a child under 10, and the idea that they'd be forced to detransition by government mandate if they were American scares the crap out of me. So much for the party of 'family' and 'letting parents decide what is best for their child'. So much for 'small government'. I also know many who are homosexual and am related to a few (I refuse to out anyone) - they too are scared to death of going to the USA now given the bizarre hateful laws being passed. Book banning is sadly the least of the crimes being done by government down there, when that should be the worst one. If DeSantis takes over in 2024 I fear what comes next - I expect a flood of refugees to be coming across the US-Canada border and a war to be coming shortly afterwards. What a mess. I just hope saner heads prevail down there but after 2016 and the lack of charges post 2020 I fear what comes next.
I'm slightly surprised that you didn't catch my pilfering of Barry Goldwater's original proposal, which was to saw off the entire Eastern Seaboard.
RDS will declare his POTUS candidacy sometime between June and August so you, the even further-left geniuses here, and very-online MAGA types might wish to prepare by stocking up on copium.
Okay, let's assume for sake of argument that Trump outwears his welcome in the GOP and DeSantis wins the nomination. Would you like to reprise our 2016 wager? Even odds, Biden (me) vs DeSantis (you), and the usual caveat about both Biden and DeSantis having to be on the ballot come Election Day. All bets off if Biden gets replaced by another Democrat, because that gets us too far into the Unknown.
As it now stands, I'm up 1000 Washingtons from 2020 and down a pair of Clyde's dinners from 2016, so here's a chance for you (and Clapper, if he wishes) to take advantage of my blind partisan wishcasting. Easiest dinner you'll ever win.
Also, I have Ray's contact info if you need to improve your luck. (smile)
Also also, if RDS wins, how many folks here promise to declare themselves refugees and storm the Canadian border? Let's get a headcount.
Is the book banned or not? If it is, and it "just has to go through the legal process to prove the bounds of the statute were overstepped", then #### off with your dancing monkeyism.
I believe you.
Total horseshit as a quick trip to Wikipedia would show. Why am I not surprised.
It is sad as I used to enjoy going there - my parents used to go there in the winter and many of their friends there seemed like good people, but given many voted for that hateful monster I seriously wonder.
I know a few transgender people, including a child under 10, and the idea that they'd be forced to detransition by government mandate if they were American scares the crap out of me. So much for the party of 'family' and 'letting parents decide what is best for their child'. So much for 'small government'. I also know many who are homosexual and am related to a few (I refuse to out anyone) - they too are scared to death of going to the USA now given the bizarre hateful laws being passed. Book banning is sadly the least of the crimes being done by government down there, when that should be the worst one. If DeSantis takes over in 2024 I fear what comes next - I expect a flood of refugees to be coming across the US-Canada border and a war to be coming shortly afterwards. What a mess. I just hope saner heads prevail down there but after 2016 and the lack of charges post 2020 I fear what comes next.
Yes, we can see how horrible Florida is by the fact that 550,000 people moved there in 2021, and another 320,000 in 2022. Half the Democratic congressional caucus vacationed there during the pandemic to avoid the moronic policies in the Blue states.
The idea that NOT allowing the drugging and amputation of perfectly physically healthy minor children makes you similar to the Nazis is batshit insanity. The best science before the recent insanity was that 90% of children with gender dysphoria self-resolve by 18 with no medical intervention. 80% of them turned out to be gay.
edit...there's a link to 176 books that were removed, and a lot, after review, were returned to the libraries. I wonder which ones still haven't been? How can a book about Roberto ####### Clemente be questioned?
Noted and bookmarked.
Also, I have Ray's contact info if you need to improve your luck. (smile)
I've got that contact info, but I think he learned his lesson after 2020. OTOH might take you up on a GOP primary wager, since I think he's still sold on Trump's kavorka.
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Not much confidence in Joe even making it to the general? I guess that means you think he has less chance than Hillary did in 2016? You may be on to something.
So does this mean that you're also on? The contingencies apply for both Biden and DeSantis.
Of course if Trump turns out to be the nominee vs. Biden, I'm sure both of you will be glad to try for a second dinner. From everything I've heard coming out of Mar-a-lago, TFG is totally invincible, unbeatable, and still irresistible to every Hot Babe in Leisure World.
Yes, yes, think of the poor priests who will be missing out on all of those underage genitals.
At least those kids kept their genitals. That's more than you're willing to allow them.
I'm saying it's not my place to have a say in what a family privately decides when it comes to this issue. Nor is it yours, just because you're weirded out by it.
The people who support this are fascist trash!
He just doesn't like all the fuss.
What an excellent job of fearmongering. Vanishingly few minors have gender-reassignment surgery: and those few have worked extensively with doctors and parents to make sure they are not among the 90% of cases that you claim “self-resolve.” What the GOP culture warriors are trying hard to do is to “other” minors all along the spectrum and block minors from taking medications their doctors and families determine is right for them.
Books are very different than movies: rating books R, and restricting access is generally a bad idea. It’s a terrible idea when you’re keeping kids from learning US history in order to protect oversensitive white people from knowing that slavery and colonization is part of our history.
This would be my first assigned book, just to get people thinking.
P. S. That doesn't mean I wouldn't be teaching the positive things, but then few people seem to mind about that.
Small government, bro.
But hey, the Streisand effect is a thing.
While I'll have grave concerns for the trajectory of the USA if DeSantis is elected President, I'm not leaving. Nazi Germany was plausible to flee from. America going full fasch is an existential threat to the hominid genus. So, I'll be staying to be part of the opposition, even if that leads to dire consequences. I already had my front window shot in from running for state legislature in the then R+38 district in 2012. I'm not going to run.
If America is so terrible that people have to do bizarre things to "make it great again" and are mad that America isn't doing those things, why don't they voluntarily move to somewhere with appropriate politics, like Russia, Hungary, or whatever.
When DeSantis' state is blocking Clemente's book....when Clemente is one of the examples held up of a "good Afro-latino", you're really not being subtle anymore.
Who's keeping kids from learning about slavery causing the civil war? Send me a link to current textbook that talks about the civil war and forgets to mention slavery. Colonization ? Who did we colonize? The Brits colonized the world: the US, Canada, large parts of the Caribbean, Asia, Africa. So did Belgium, Portugal, and France and the Netherlands. But, of course, you know that. At least get your terms right unless you mean we were victims of British colonization.
As for Florida (and a Georgia and Texas), they are by far the fastest growing states attracting people and talent from all over the country while the traditional blue states bleed people like crazy. Just look at the census - people have been voting with their feet for decades. It's all there in black and white. I would think a bunch of stat-minded people could easily see that.
"In July, a new Florida law went into effect that allows parents to register concerns about books taught in schools and petition local districts to ban them.
Nevertheless, many prominent people on social media have been claiming that a slew of books were immediately banned in schools and libraries statewide by the law. They have circulated an image of 25 book titles listed on a piece of paper.
The book list includes novels that have been taught in schools for generations, including "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Catcher in the Rye" and "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." It also includes the Harry Potter series and the biblical Song of Solomon.
The image of the banned book list has been shared by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Star Wars actor Mark Hamill on Aug. 21 and 22. Hamill's tweet has racked up more than 30,000 retweets and 150,000 likes.
But the list is a fiction.
While school districts can ban books through a process created by the new law, Florida has not banned any books at the state level, a spokesperson for Gov. Ron DeSantis told USA TODAY.
In fact, several works on the list have been recommended to school districts by the state Department of Education.
Weingarten corrected and deleted her tweet within several hours of posting it. Numerous other posts featuring the list, such as Hamill's, have remained online.
at least five of books on the list are endorsed as exemplary of a "rich literary tradition" in a guide to the state's current educational standards for English Language Arts, including "To Kill a Mockingbird," "1984," "Of Mice and Men," "The Call of the Wild" and "Lord of the Flies."
As far as I can tell, there's nothing keeping school administrators from drafting a list of these banned books, and distributing it to the students with a strong "DO NOT read these books! Strictly forbidden! Stay away from them! We will not carry them in our libraries, they're that bad! Danger, danger, danger!" warning. :)
For now.
something something boomer something something.
as for georgia and texas, yes, we know that their population is growing; that growth is why democrats control the senate.
i mean:
and, yeah:
full disclosure: I did NOT see that plot twist coming.
at all.
not sure what the national reaction will be, if/when it goes viral.
and given the lengthy tradition of the BBTF fondness for shooting the messenger, I sure as hell ain't posting it !
#ducksforcover
(it's easy enough to find)
Just stop.
This argument feels flimsy coming from the same party that thinks similarly aged girls are apparently old enough to be forced to carry an unwanted baby to term regardless of the circumstances surrounding that pregnancy.
Why, what do you have against circumcision, you heathen? ;)
I was raised Catholic. I get it.
Cry some more over co-ed bathrooms.
Herschel Walker was cheated!
Because the Culture Wars must be fought on all fronts, all the time, every minute of every hour of every day. (Hell, why did we build all these barricades if we aren't gonna use them...?!)
As I said at the time, "This is not peace, it is a grift-business for 20 years."
Many volks never accepted the defeat, and the mythology would inevitably grow: Santa never lost a battle in the field, the Christmas army was stabbed in the back by big library, big tech, big elite, and big book, etc.
All it would take would a be flashpoint - a shootout at a German server farm where factions of the CIA were fighting to retrieve evidence of ballots altered by Italian satellites for example, children dressing as cats - and we'd end up right back where we started, with roving bands marching in the street, demanding a do-over, bellowing their Worst Weasel anthem, etc.
I know, right? It would be so nice if the left would stop screaming about M&M's and drag shows and CRT and higher-education "indoctrination" and "offensive" books and Satanic panic and...
Mutilating and sterilizing children makes me uncomfortable. Yes. I'm the monster. Removing perfectly healthy body parts in response to a mental disorder only makes sense to people who have imbibed a bizarre cult worldview.
What do you say to the growing ranks of de-transitioners who regret the mastectomies and hysterectomies performed upon them when they were too young to consent to a tattoo?
The "party of science" indeed.
"I don't see color" MAY be a good philosophy to apply in certain situations in one's everyday experience.
It is NOT gonna get you far when applied as a methodological principle for historical and social analysis.
I'll go even further: Everyone should just stop complaining about everything! Stop whining! Please sir, may I have another? No? OK! I'm not complaining!
I skimmed his comments and here's how I read them: Leave small children (new readers) out of it. Kids don't see color.
I grew up in Boston. I was in the second grade when they started school busing (1965). One day, there was a knock on the classroom door, and when the teacher opened it, there stood the school principal and a black kid from a few neighborhoods away who stood there with a sign hung around his neck that read "May I join your class?" We looked at each other and shrugged and said "yeah why not?" because, again, at 7 years old, you don't "see color". More to the point...you don't know that society has a racism problem, and would be horrified to learn about it.
If these books are presented to first and second graders, then no, they aren't appropriate. By the 4th or 5th grade, they are.
edit...then again...kids of color are more likely to have experienced racism by the time they're 7 than white kids, so, why not have books that speak to 7 year olds about racism? Maybe the Clemente book isn't that book. I don't know. But I'm sure there are some talented writers out there that could write such a book (one geared to 7 year olds).
Manifest Destiny was literally the United States colonizing from coast to coast...
And you may want to read up on the history of Hawaii...
This belief that the state knows what's best for your children has driven a backlash. We used to believe the various govts had our children's' best interests at heart. Parents checked out and were happy for 30-40 years. Not so anymore. They found out during the pandemic all the crazy #### being taught their kids and things have started to change. Whether it's gender stuff or CRT or guns/drugs or hiding things from parents about their own children, a lot of people woke up (so to speak)
Some new normal will return once parents rally and put sane people back on school boards and get rid of teachers who want to indoctrinate their children instead of teaching them. Except in a handful of rich enclaves the public school system (and the elitist rich kid private school systems) are completely incompetent and/or corrupt. The only good alternatives now are catholic schools and home schooling, and there aren't that many nuns to go around. Public schools epitomize the phrase "you get what you pay for".
I was educated in public schools but had the good fortune to grow up in a super rich community so the schools were top notch.
My niece taught in the catholic schools and then had to move and teach in Floridas public schools. She had to quit after a couple years because the public system was utterly dysfunctional. She said the catholic schools had plenty of problems too but performed their basic tasks pretty well.
You know what the MAGAs would tell you, snapper: #### YOUR FEELINGS!
Those people are so rude.
I have some bad news for you...
4 stories from Washington Post in a 2 day period:
1. No one is coming after gas stoves
2. Republicans are just making gas stoves an issue to wage culture war
3. Why regulators are banning gas stoves
4. Why banning gas stoves is good actually
Your peeps push loony ideas, then kvetch when we have the chutzpah to respond.
It's always projection with the left. Always.
I skimmed his comments and here's how I read them: Leave small children (new readers) out of it. Kids don't see color.
I think Bivens has it right in his reading of what Clemente Jr. wrote. You can agree or disagree with it, but it's not an over-the-top opinion.
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Implied in 76 is that the "old ways" of teaching were unbiased, but this new era is not. LOL!
No current textbook dealing with American racial history, no matter how "woke" its accusers make it out to be, could possibly be 1/100th as biased as the sort of History textbooks that were prevalent up through the 1960's and in some places even later, and not just in the South. That book I recommended yesterday afternoon cites hundreds of such books, many written by mainstream authors like Henry Steele Commager, Samuel Eliot Morrison, Allan Nevins and the like, all of whom basically parroted the Lost Cause line on Reconstruction and the demonization of the abolitionist movement. The "lessons" those books taught about inherent Black inferiority are still held by many millions of Americans today, even though those books have been out of print now for many decades. You don't have to buy all the arguments of Nikole Hannah-Jones is order to understand just how much traditional mainstream history has distorted the realities of what American life was like in the past.
And please, stop kidding us that this is about rape or incest. The days of "safe, legal, and rare" that Bill Clinton espoused during his presidency are long forgotten and folks like you support abortion whenever, wherever.
Like sunsetting SS and medicare?
I'm find with Clemente Jr. thinking kids not knowing that racism is a thing is better. But, I don't think he's right. Kids should have better ideas of how and why adults do things. I mean, I can still remember being four and the first time I can remember seeing a really tall black guy with a giant afro (yeah it was circa 1975 or so......and my parents had lots of assimilated black friends and associates, but, none with afros). So, in positive news, the black guy thought it was cool that I thought his hair was really cool, even though it was clear I'd never seen an afro in person before by age four. My parents looked scared as ####.....cause they were afraid the guy might be offended (he wasn't and even bent down to "low five" me). The memory stuck with me because my parents were wigged out......and it wasn't until I was older that I realized why.
We really think its wrong to let kids know #### like why my parents were nervous and why a black person might over-react?
If knowledge is wrong, I guess I support wrongness. But, I disagree that knowledge is wrong in almost any context. Sure, we don't want public schools teaching things like "how to make a WMD", but knowing racism isn't remotely in that territory.
So thanks for sharing another example of leftist projection.
By the way, this has nothing to do with the so-called culture wars.
* In the Democrat lexicon, slowing the rate of spending, let alone enacting a freeze, of a program constitutes a "gutting," and may result in ads portraying a Republican lawmaker like Paul Ryan pushing a grandmother in a wheelchair off a cliff.
The people that have convinced you of this are lying to you.
Rick Scott did. Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy say he did.
Sunsetting the entire legal code every five years is lunacy, yes, given how dysfunctional Congress is as the moment. Are we sure we can even agree in Congress to pay for things we've already legally authorized? Nope....we're not.
I suppose it'd be a libertarian dream, right until the gun nuts came and broke the non-aggression protocol and took "their stuff" that used to be protected by having a government which maintains property rights.
I can understand why JE the DM defends the gas industry, because he loves to light gas.
If a "top-notch" school is teaching its students that the US never colonized anyone (which would be news to Filipinos, Puerto Ricans and Samoans), then I would have no choice but to agree with the idea that American education is in a very, very dire state.
The only appropriate response to this nonsense is: this.
4 stories from Washington Post in a 2 day period:
1. No one is coming after gas stoves
Of course that's true. The closest thing to this is Berkeley's banning of gas hookups on new stoves. No state has banned gas stoves, while several states have banned municipalities from even proposing the idea.
2. Republicans are just making gas stoves an issue to wage culture war
If you haven't noticed this, congratulations on completing your successful defoxification program.
3. Why regulators are banning gas stoves
What regulators? Where?
4. Why banning gas stoves is good actually
I assume you're referring to some op-ed. The WP has op-eds covering pretty much every opinion on every subject from A to Z.
It may well be good in theory, but it's going to take a long time and a lot of advances in electric stove technology to make any thoughts of replacement a serious possibility.
** This "creature of the left" regularly publishes George Will, Marc Thiessen, Hugh Hewitt, Gary Abernathy, Megan McArdle, Ruy Teixeira, and Jim Geraghty, just to name a few. Not to mention several other columnists like Max Boot, Jennifer Rubin, and the late Michael Gerson, who were conservatives when the Post hired them, but when Trump came along they had to jump ship. As Ronald Reagan might've put it, they didn't leave the GOP, the GOP left them.
Rick Scott is likely to run for president, so we'll see if the other R candidates distance themselves from him on this issue.
Also, if you're suggesting that Joe Biden would have voted to end SS and Medicare...LOL!
"Scott “compounded that attack on earned benefits” by advocating for the repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act, legislation passed last year that allows Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices.
Scott argues that giving the federal government the power to negotiate lower drug prices is in effect a cut to Medicare, predicting it will stifle innovation in the pharmaceutical industry by cutting the flow of money to drug companies."
Cutting Medicare costs will stifle innovation by cutting the flow of money to drug companies, but sunsetting Medicare won't. Because you know, those Republicans are the good guys and can always be trusted to keep the flow of money going on social welfare programs. Got it.
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