Now it’s a matter if Texas children having a shitty education is legal or not.
But hey, if that’s what they want for their kids, go for it. Being outpaced by kids raised in other states. There’s 49 other states out there. Plenty of people educated out of state ready to be your kid’s boss.
Great!
Meanwhile in the Bible, David and Jonathan are naked in bed together and laughing at the hypocrisy behind conservatives’ effort to ban books with LGBT content.
You think?
Yeah, no shit
Republicans don’t care about the Constitution. They want to live in a Fascist state. As soon as they can get Don in power, they’ll probably burn it.
wait, Fifth Circuit *and* at least one Trump-appointed judge made this decision?!?!
Not a lawyer, but NO FUCKING SHIT
It’s wild to me how the GOP spends 90% of its time focused on fictitious problems that were invented out of thin air to provoke the culture war voters.
The books in libraries were not a problem until Republicans decided to be fake aggrieved.
If they spent as much time on real problems as they do on pretend problems, imagine how much our government could get done.
The Texas GOP has had a focused and concerted plan to subvert the educational system in their state for well over a decade.
Their goals are very specific:
1. Eliminate teaching “critical thinking.”
2. Ban any teaching that “undermines parental authority”, and
3. Ban anything that “challenges a student’s fixed beliefs.” (which are the beliefs they forced on children, and don’t want changed by allowing those students to hear anything else.)
This isn’t something new. The first time I saw it was in the official 2012 Texas GOP platform, voted in by the party, that set the above listed goals.
Here is the quote from their platform:
> Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), **critical thinking skills** and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
Texas violates the constitution more than any other state.
Hello from r/bannedbooks! 🙂 We’ve put together a giant collection of 32 classic banned books: if you care about book bans, you might find it useful. It’s got Voltaire, Mark Twain, The Scarlet Letter, and other classics that were banned at some point in the past. (And many of them are banned even now, as you can see yourself.)
I have that book Maus, I have it because it was required for college history class, that I took some 24 years ago.
Ya think?
‘Likely’ because despite that it is clearly unconstitutional, the Federal appeals court was not 100% if the Supreme Court Clerics would decide so too.
Don’t worry, by the time they get repealed Texas will have come up with sixteen more versions of the bill to pass through the legislature so they can do it all over again.
We’ve already seen it with abortion bans – they just keep going until one sticks, or until they can rig the court.
Why do they use the term “likely” in their ruling? Shouldn’t it be as simple as it does or does not violate the constitution?
“Fine. We’ll put the books back. But they’re gonna have guns attached to the covers.”
— Texas
pistils and stamens heh heh
Of course they violate the U.S. Constitution, hell that shit ain’t even American! Nazi’s ban books, Communist ban books, Fascist ban books, authoritarians ban books. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” – 1st Amendment U.S. Constitution. And, don’t give me that states rights bullshit. The law starts at the top. If Congress can’t abridge freedom of speech, then bumble-fuck backwoods state government shouldn’t be able to either….
No guys the rules are freedom of speech and it’s super simple to understand. It specifically means some asshole ranting about minorities in YOUR business is covered. It then does not cover the written word, that can be censored to shit, hence why Texas is on the up and up here. Freedom of Speech definitely does cover speech done by an obscure financial donor blasting the airwaves with disinformation as well. That is good free speech shit. Don’t believe me? Ever heard the phrase “money talks?” That’s right dumbasses, TALKS. That means freedom of speech. If you convert that book into one of those read aloud versions then your bases are covered.
Likely? Likely? Are f’n kidding me?
Likely? They fucking do.
>Texas likely violates Constitution
FIFY
Wait Maus is banned in Texas? What’s wrong with this state?
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I could’ve told you that.
Now it’s a matter if Texas children having a shitty education is legal or not.
But hey, if that’s what they want for their kids, go for it. Being outpaced by kids raised in other states. There’s 49 other states out there. Plenty of people educated out of state ready to be your kid’s boss.
Great!
Meanwhile in the Bible, David and Jonathan are naked in bed together and laughing at the hypocrisy behind conservatives’ effort to ban books with LGBT content.
You think?
Yeah, no shit
Republicans don’t care about the Constitution. They want to live in a Fascist state. As soon as they can get Don in power, they’ll probably burn it.
wait, Fifth Circuit *and* at least one Trump-appointed judge made this decision?!?!
Not a lawyer, but NO FUCKING SHIT
It’s wild to me how the GOP spends 90% of its time focused on fictitious problems that were invented out of thin air to provoke the culture war voters.
The books in libraries were not a problem until Republicans decided to be fake aggrieved.
If they spent as much time on real problems as they do on pretend problems, imagine how much our government could get done.
The Texas GOP has had a focused and concerted plan to subvert the educational system in their state for well over a decade.
Their goals are very specific:
1. Eliminate teaching “critical thinking.”
2. Ban any teaching that “undermines parental authority”, and
3. Ban anything that “challenges a student’s fixed beliefs.” (which are the beliefs they forced on children, and don’t want changed by allowing those students to hear anything else.)
This isn’t something new. The first time I saw it was in the official 2012 Texas GOP platform, voted in by the party, that set the above listed goals.
Here is the quote from their platform:
> Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), **critical thinking skills** and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
They have only doubled-down since then.
[Source](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html)
Texas violates the constitution more than any other state.
Hello from r/bannedbooks! 🙂 We’ve put together a giant collection of 32 classic banned books: if you care about book bans, you might find it useful. It’s got Voltaire, Mark Twain, The Scarlet Letter, and other classics that were banned at some point in the past. (And many of them are banned even now, as you can see yourself.)
You can find more information on the Banned Book Compendium over here: https://www.reddit.com/r/bannedbooks/comments/12f24xc/ive_made_a_digital_collection_of_32_classic/ Feel free to share that file far and wide: bonus points if you can share it with students, teachers, and librarians. 🙂
A book is not a crime.
I have that book Maus, I have it because it was required for college history class, that I took some 24 years ago.
Ya think?
‘Likely’ because despite that it is clearly unconstitutional, the Federal appeals court was not 100% if the Supreme Court Clerics would decide so too.
Don’t worry, by the time they get repealed Texas will have come up with sixteen more versions of the bill to pass through the legislature so they can do it all over again.
We’ve already seen it with abortion bans – they just keep going until one sticks, or until they can rig the court.
Why do they use the term “likely” in their ruling? Shouldn’t it be as simple as it does or does not violate the constitution?
“Fine. We’ll put the books back. But they’re gonna have guns attached to the covers.”
— Texas
pistils and stamens heh heh
Of course they violate the U.S. Constitution, hell that shit ain’t even American! Nazi’s ban books, Communist ban books, Fascist ban books, authoritarians ban books. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” – 1st Amendment U.S. Constitution. And, don’t give me that states rights bullshit. The law starts at the top. If Congress can’t abridge freedom of speech, then bumble-fuck backwoods state government shouldn’t be able to either….
No guys the rules are freedom of speech and it’s super simple to understand. It specifically means some asshole ranting about minorities in YOUR business is covered. It then does not cover the written word, that can be censored to shit, hence why Texas is on the up and up here. Freedom of Speech definitely does cover speech done by an obscure financial donor blasting the airwaves with disinformation as well. That is good free speech shit. Don’t believe me? Ever heard the phrase “money talks?” That’s right dumbasses, TALKS. That means freedom of speech. If you convert that book into one of those read aloud versions then your bases are covered.
Likely? Likely? Are f’n kidding me?
Likely? They fucking do.
>Texas likely violates Constitution
FIFY
Wait Maus is banned in Texas? What’s wrong with this state?