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ekZepp@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Bad Influence.

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Bad Influence.

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ekZepp@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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Art by Alex Krokus https://bsky.app/profile/alexkrokus.bsky.social

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You said yourself that this law you mentioned is still under consideration, so everything concerning that is basically speculation until it has actually been passed.

    Are you shitting me? I was talking about a specific law in Indiana about public librarians that would affect my wife if passed (and every indication is that it will pass). Such laws have been passed all over the country already regarding school librarians.

    https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-libraries-lawsuits-fines-prison-0914fa6cbb2a99b540cbbd28a38179b4

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/school-librarians-banned-books-investigation-texas-rcna161444

    https://www.infodocket.com/2023/05/18/washington-post-school-librarians-face-a-new-penalty-in-the-banned-book-wars-prison/

    It’s even already a law about school librarians in Indiana:

    https://wsbt.com/news/operation-education/educators-librarians-criminal-prosecution-level-6-felony-controversial-books-teachers-transparent-state-law-obscene-harmful-minors-ban-library-indiana

    But you being fine with librarians getting imprisoned for corrupting the vulnerable youth with evil, evil books is noted.

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      3 months ago

      Did you actually read these articles, or are you just trying to stoke a panic?

      The first one explicitly says that “no librarian or educator has been jailed” (as of April 9 last year), while the second details an apparently extremely far right LEO in friggin’ TEXAS (which I assume is likely on the forefront of these efforts) spending a whole TWO YEARS gathering evidence to indict a couple of small town librarians for making these books available, with nothing to show for it (because the county judge declined to even hear the case).

      So if Texas can’t even indict anyone for these “crimes”, what makes you think that Indiana will?

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        3 months ago

        “It hasn’t happened yet therefore it will never happen” is a pretty stupid argument when laws are already being passed.

        20 million people haven’t been deported and trans people haven’t been erased yet either. So I guess those will also never happen. No tariffs, not going to happen because it hasn’t happened yet.

        Trump and Republicans only care about saving the children after all.

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