Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books to be moved from the children’s and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author’s last name is Gay.

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    And as always, the library has a copy of Mein Kampf that no rightwinger has a problem with.

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        Hey, the Bible is totally child friendly. Like that passage where Lot’s daughters get him drunk and have sex with him in order to have his babies.

        Or the one that describes how a guy’s brother died without having an heir. So the guy got to have sex with his sister-in-law in order to give her a son. Except he pulled out at the last second and “let his seed spill on the ground” and was killed for breaking his word.

        Or maybe the passage where Dinah was raped and her rapist wanted to marry her. Dinah’s brothers agreed, but only if all the men in that village got circumcised. Then, when all the men were “indisposed,” the brothers ran in, killed all the men, and took the women and children captive.

        See? So totally child friendly!

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          “Let the heathens spill theirs on the dusty ground. God shall strike them down for each sperm that can’t be found.”

          • Book of John ^(Cleese)
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      Mein Kampf has very interesting parts about reproductivity of animals. Statements such as

      “the stork goes to the female stork, field mouse to field mouse, house mouse to house mouse, wolf to wolf, etc…”

      are truly remarkable in his incomprehensibly big brain revelations about biology. Then he moves on to explain how the same would apply to humans, completely brushing over the fact that storks and mouse are different kinds and he is too stupid to differentiate between race and kind.

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      Fyi since I’m assuming you didn’t read the article, the book was just moved out of the Children’s section. Obviously a mistake in instance, but it’s not being banned. Mein Kampf is not in the children’s section. I think it’s fine for sexually explicit books (i.e. the book “Gender queer”) to be moved out of the children’s section

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        “See, it’s not really censorship because…” is an argument anyone should be ashamed to make. Conservatives never have a problem with Mein Kampf in any context.

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          Mein Kampf is not in the children’s section, which is what this article is about. The comparison is useless in this circumstance. Read the article before commenting.

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            So then are you suggesting that it’s totally ok to remove a book from the children’s section because the author’s last name is “Gay”? Because that’s what this entire post is about.

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              I’m saying the process of removing books from the children’s section is an appropriate policy, even if it was misapplied in this case. It’s not banning books, like many people in here seem to believe.

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                Hiding children’s books from children at the behest of bigots kinda defeats the purpose of having children’s books. It’s effectively a ban, which is why you’re defending it.

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    Alabamians are so proud of being some of the dumbest and hateful people on the planet.

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    Is this the family everyone keeps talking about when they say The Gays are destroying everything? Are they like the Sachlers?

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        It’s mostly a family Christmas newsletter-type deal with updates on what all the Gays are up to. Mary Gay tends to get a lot of coverage.

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        Today : Gay

        Tomorrow : Also Gay

        Oh wow, looks like I’ve got “be Gay” down every day for the whole year!

        You know what isn’t here? Forcing other people at the point of a sword to follow my religious beliefs about sexuality, gender, and expression. Not a single minute of that in the whole schedule.

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    Reminds me of that time when some Christian website had put an RSS news feed on their home page, but of course the owner had insisted on putting a word filter on it.

    So the website had a headline about “Tyson Homosexual” winning gold.

    People immediately started wondering what kind of headlines the website would have on the anniversary of the historic flight of Enola Homosexual and the Hiroshima bombing.

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    Soon there will be a law to change her name automatically into “Marie-Louise Straight”, so that administrators will be happy.

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    I’m impressed. The author is so committed to brainwashing our innocent children into having sex that she went back in time and gave herself the name Gay.

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    These loons are to books what Frankenstein’s monster was to fire. I want to know who told them what’s inside those buildings the smart people hang out in.

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    Wait until these people remember that the bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, an act of heroism and a very much necessary slaughter of 100,000 civilians (don’t worry, they were the bad guys), was christened Enola Gay.

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    I may be off my rocker here but I will bet the author has a discrimination lawsuit, if he finds a cleaver enough lawyer to argue the semantics of it… also gay used to and still does mean happy and was used as late as the 80s in the USA… it only recently changed since the 90s to mean an orientation… so I bet this author could have an interesting day in court…

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            I don’t see how that detracts from the point being made about a lawsuit. “Your honor, my client was discriminated against and has potentially experienced damage to her career because defendants don’t enter libraries or read books except to see if they can find a reason to ban them, and they latched onto this book without realizing the word “Gay” can be a name, or can mean happy, and this ignorance exacerbated their homophobic bigotry, leading to this undesirable outcome.”

            Or some more sterile and legal way of pointing out what fantastic illiterate idiots these homophobes are.

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            Yes… and? Still not understanding why you assume they didn’t look at the picture. The entire point is that the author potentially has a discrimination lawsuit because of their name, and I’m not seeing how the picture changes that in any way.

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        You couldn’t even be fucking bothered to look at the picture?

        Remember that time when we all thought folks would be a little nicer and a little less quick to rudeness and interpreting everything in the worst possible way on Lemmy and Kbin? (Like 3 months ago?)

        Pepperidge Farm Remembers.