School district slaps warning labels on books with LGBTQ characters

[Libertas]

https://twitter.com/PENamerica/status/1 ... 4H--c2CJCQ

NEW: 110 books have been slapped with a “warning label” in Collier County, FL, after a local interest group objected to them. Books with these warnings disproportionately include stories featuring LGBTQ+ characters and plot lines and communities of color.

This is a physical, to the death war, by righty including those here against all others. Make no mistake about it.

[ProfX]

That latter tidbit is ... well, special. (The whole law is idiotic, but.)

"Warning: this book contains nonwhite characters. Read at your own risk."

[Libertas]

That latter tidbit is ... well, special. (The whole law is idiotic, but.)

"Warning: this book contains nonwhite characters. Read at your own risk."

This isn't "proposed", this is done, did and done. But you know better than any of us for several reasons about all this.

How far we have fallen in such a short time. Over 200 years to get where we were in 2016 and only 4 years to completely go off the cliff.

[ProfX]

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-new ... -rcna41779

Here's the label.



Allow me to translate: the local Hyper-Puritan Anally Uptight Citizens' Brigade objects to this book, so because our county and state are sometimes being run by morons, we are required to notify you of this.

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Some of the titles that appear on both lists — and now have an “advisory notice to parents” warning label in Collier County Public Schools — include LGBTQ- and race-related books that have landed on banned-book lists across the country. These titles include “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe, “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson, and “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. The list also includes literary classics like “Beloved” by Toni Morrison and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou.
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Maya Angelou got the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Ban her books!

As for Gender Queer, yeah, that was the book where the local idiots closed the public library because they wouldn't remove it from the shelves.

[carmenjonze]

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-new ... -rcna41779

Here's the label.



Allow me to translate: the local Hyper-Puritan Anally Uptight Citizens' Brigade objects to this book, so because our county and state are sometimes being run by morons, we are required to notify you of this.

White supremacism is destroying this country.

[ProfX]

Next up in the nightmare that is deSantis Country ...

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/es ... 276112002/

An Escambia County public school teacher resigned this week over what he characterized as racist behavior by a school district employee.

The teacher, Michael James, emailed a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis and Escambia County Superintendent Tim Smith in which he wrote that a district employee removed pictures of historic Black American heroes from his classroom walls, citing the images as being "age inappropriate."

Images that were removed from the bulletin board at O.J. Semmes Elementary School included depictions of Martin Luther King Jr., Harriett Tubman, Colin Powell and George Washington Carver, James said.

"It really floored me," James told the News Journal. "I've been teaching special education for 15 years, and it just really floored me when she did that."

James chose the board's theme because the majority of the students and the residents in the neighborhoods that surround O.J. Semmes are Black, and he wanted to motivate his students with inspirational leaders they could easily look up to and see themselves.

James, 61, of Daphne, Alabama, sent his letter to the governor Monday night. He officially resigned from his position as an exceptional student education teacher at O.J. Semmes Elementary School on Tuesday morning.

His resignation came in the midst of a national teacher shortage, a day before the start of the new school year Wednesday.

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In his letter, he explained he recently purchased approximately $58 of school supplies with his own money at the Teacher Store in Pensacola.

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WTF is "age inappropriate" of pictures of those people?

[Libertas]

Color appropriate.



ONE side and ONE side only engages is all out attacks of anyone and everyone who is not MAGA.

[carmenjonze]

WTF is "age inappropriate" of pictures of those people?

blk

[carmenjonze]

But really, it's Black people who pushed back at their white supremacism, and won using their own tools.

These conservative whites do NOT want their snotnose brats learning about that.

What will the neighbors say when they start joining in