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Re:Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022 by akomtu on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:11PM (#35283342)
We could also argue whether teaching about the "benefits" of dog eating would have negative effects. The goal of such "educators" is to uproot the morals early and normalize the abnormal things.
Re:Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022 by geon on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:21PM (#35284270)
What’s wrong with eating dogs?
Re:Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022 by wizofaus on Friday March 24, 2023 @07:01AM (#35287448)
Sex is abnormal now? FWIW I don't see any need to push descriptions of sexual activity into kid's faces, most of them are unlikely to find it terribly interesting anyway and there's something to be said for the fact that we can enjoy a short period of our life without being unduly influenced by sexual desire. But the idea that we need to ban books from school libraries just because they hint of a more complex adult world where sexual impulses are part of life (even in ways that inevitably affect the children who live with and around them) seems very hard to justify.
Re:Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022 by akomtu on Friday March 24, 2023 @10:02AM (#35289193)
Obsession with sex is abnormal, just like obsession with food. I'd buy the "complex adult world" argument if the schools equally taught about the dangers of meth addiction, with graphic depiction of those addicts to explain where those "impulses" lead. Right now it looks like the books are trying to whitewash those impulses, make them look good even.