An informed populace makes it easier to challenge authority. That’s why they’re banning books. And it’s all fueled by white Christian nationalism.
by southpawFA
An informed populace makes it easier to challenge authority. That’s why they’re banning books. And it’s all fueled by white Christian nationalism.
by southpawFA
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>Mason City, Iowa schools employed the unique method of determining which books needed to be removed without actually reading them. Entering data into the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, the school administration generated instant responses after asking it to come up with books that contained depictions of sex.
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The bot created a list of 42 entries, including such classics as:
* ***Beloved by Toni Morrison,***
* ***The Color Purple by Alice Walker,***
* ***I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou,***
* ***An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, plus***
* ***Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger,***
* ***Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar, and many others.***
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>*Power-hungry autocrats understand that an informed, awake populace increases the chances of mass challenges to their authority, as history has clearly shown. But if the white Christian power structure can severely restrict and downgrade the education of people they deem outside this structure – people of color, non-Christians, non-cisgender, and non-heteronormative individuals – then they believe their domination will be assured.*
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>*Allowing free and age-appropriate discussions, however, of the “hard” history connected to race and racism unmasks this Christian nationalist myth of “white innocence.” And free and age-appropriate discussions of topics around sexuality and gender knocks out of the water the propagation of their invention of some sort of Christian “purity culture” destined by God.*
Do the Bible next.
Totally true. I never read and I’m gullible as f*ck.
Keep em dumb and pregnant.
They’ll cling to the barely recognizable shreds of humanity while trying to prevent progress and advancement. Hang onto it just a little while longer so they can get their piece of the pie. The class system is alive and smoldering in the bowels of Amerikkka. Fighting progress to preserve their class system is in their own best interests, not those of the populace. Let them burn, so long as theirs is on the take. Fucking hypocrite bible bashing Neanderthals.
If they’re banning books I want the fucking bible banned. They should read some of the shit in that R rated fairytale.
This is 100% true and with social media it’s impossible to stop.
“They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove ’em.” ~Rage Against the Machine, Bulls On Parade, 1996
Well hell, many of us have been saying this for ages.
Since no Christian faction is opposing these “white” Christian’s then just say Christian. They’re all guilty by association.
Young people are saying , **Oh No !!!**… Miss me with that “fictional” brand of Christian Nationality !!!!!!
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Could it be when it comes to equality among diversity of racial and ethnic people, that these 30 something, 40 something and certainly many of these 50 something plus aged people have some mental sense of insufficiency element in their character that makes them fearful they won’t measure up, on humanity level, integrity level, dignity level, and spiritual truth level****?****
* *as they continue to see everything they tried to ban non white people from, are the very cultural things that non white people are out performing them.*
They try to block black and brown people out of technology, but that’s not working either, because non white people continue innovating and creating as well as developing new and improved ways to utilize it as well.
* *They have spent centuries hoarding money, but what happens is the poor whites are feeling the impact of the well to do and wealthy’s hoarding money, in what they thought would only make it difficult for black and brown people, but as it turns out it doubled back, and now, the working poor and poor whites are feeling the devastations.*
They try attacking the system of education, but more and more black and brown kids are getting grade levels that result to be solicited by the very Ivy League Schools they tried so long to price black and brown and working and poor whites out of.
For centuries and decades these same type of white people built massive homes, that after generations, their kids end up loosing them, or selling them off so they could live in the “spend fast material imagery chase”. We see many of them now making more than $150k and upwards, crying about being unable to do anything but live pay check to paycheck, still trying to live that spend fast material imagery chase.
They have spent massive time and focus on the “thin frame, big breast play toy imagery of women, and they chase it with all they have, and end up and find that the character is not matching the imagery they promote in media. And sadly more and more of the women are claiming depressing when they can’t shop and keep up the imagery, and others are finding out they have been used and abused and joining the “Me Too” movement, and exposing the sexual abuse that has been rampant for centuries and decades.
More young people have come to realize that push of claiming Christian Values does not match with the mentality, attitude and conduct in their segment of society and the kids want no part of that version and model of Christianity.
They’ve watched the history of priest and child molesting, they’ve seen the massive amount of people who claim to be Christian, get caught and arrested for child sex abuse. in the past few years with the openness of the internet, how many times have we seen almost weekly, women teachers from this segment of society, being charged with sexual crimes upon students**?** That *fictional delusion* pushed in TV’s for decades of *the non sexual inclined docile female* is not a reality.
We as a general society noted, the white Christian nationalist, had no issue or problem with Trump’s “grab e’m by the P—y”; in fact, they accepted that as acceptable.
As well as seeing some of these same types from these same segments of society, killing their mates for money, killing the whole family when they can’t get from under the credit debt they created. We see so many going to jail for every type and kind of financial crime imaginable.
Then, there’s the atrocity of their kids going out mass shooting up kids in schools, and going on mass killing sprees, because of their race hate motivations. We see women being abducted, and every kind of crime that boggles the minds that anyone could even thing up anything so sinister, horrible and evil to do to other human beings.
The whole world saw them back and support and many participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Now they attack the Judicial System, because the Law holds their White Nationalist Mouth Piece, Belligerence Promoting Criminal, accountable for his crimes and acts upon and against the country, in the stealing of Top Secret Material.
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People try not to listen to the children, but if they listen they will hear:
Young people are saying , **Oh No !!!**… *Miss me with that “fictional” brand of Christian Nationality* !!!!!! The young are not accepting the bias, bigoted, racist and discriminatory brand of Christian dogma. Even ones who grew up in those environments, get away from it as soon as they are able, and sad but true, some simply run away, other try to drown it out with many forms of addictions.
Many young white people don’t have the mentality of trying to destroy what they can’t dominate and dictate over, and many don’t even have the want to dominate and dictate over others. In the Christian White Right, they call these kids stray’s and misfits, trying to force shame them into coming under the white nationalism tent.
Young people are saying , **Oh No** **!!!** *That is not what they want in their future.*
Where they burn books they will, in time, burn people as well
Christain nationalism is on the rise it makes sense, the world is scary,and I need someone to tell me what to do. I believe on the east coast there are entire towns that are those good Cristian live in. Nothing new here only religion wants to tell you how to think and act.
It’s a lot of White Christian Nationalism, but there is also a bunch of Hispanic Christian Nationalism, and Black Christian Nationalism in the mix as well.
Fueled by greed, power and control. These people are not Christians
It just occurred to me that if you live in an extremist christian household, but you just happened to go a public school… you might not have unfettered internet access, but you’ll probably have access to the school library.
Even if they lose these book bans… the kids will probably still lose access to the “satanic” school library.
It’s profoundly dishonest to pretend that any books are banned in the United States. The first amendment guarantees that there never will be. Curating which books are available or taught to children in public schools is not censorship. Even if you disagree about where the line is set, most people agree that not all books are age appropriate for all children.
Religion/Qults bad combo for the civilized modern world. These people should’ve stayed in the Bronze Age. How we let these inbred cavemen gain any form of power is wild to me.
They say no one expects the Inquisition. At this rate, we really ought to.
Exactly. The consequences of a dumbed down public narrative is a country unwilling to push back against corruption, fascism, and injustice.
The poorly educated are more easily manipulated.
Kind of ironic that Mason City is “River City” in The Music Man, where the Mayor’s wife was always wanting to get rid of “dirty books.”
Christian nationalism = keep them stupid. Keep them pregnant.
It’s all correct, but what are we going to do exactly if the cult leader wins in 2024? This is their nationwide plan, in time. Secession shouldn’t be ruled out in the worst case.
*white supremacy nationalism. Think Nazis.
Smart people do not vote against their self interest. Republicans need to keep people stupid to get votes. End.
I think the Christian nationalists are being used by the oil industry
Religious faith is rooted in the suspension of logic. This book banning, unfortunately, doesn’t surprise me.
♫ Don’t ask no questions ♫
This is exactly right
An armed populace makes it easier to challenge authority. Who’s fueling gun control?
It’s more like white supremacy nationalism. True Christians wouldn’t act the way these people do.
Funny that the bible isn’t on the list.
What’s really alarming is that more than half of the US adult population reads at or below a 6th grade level.
The people who support the bans probably don’t read anyway
Problem is, our population does not seem to want to be informed.
I took a college trip to Brazil. It was like an exchange thing with a uni there and my uni in the states.. our guide took us im a classroom and basically explained that Brazil’s government doesn’t want people to be educated because then the people would rise against the government. You can tell uneducated people how to think. It was a very aha moment for me as to why higher education should be available to everyone.
Go fuck yourselves you evil pieces of shit lol
Fuck I hate christians….I love anyone and everyone that believes in something because if you don’t believe in something you’ll fall for anything but Christians seem to believe they’re the know all be all and I hate any and everything that thinks they’re the only way to source.