Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries. The guidance by Charlotte County Superintendent Mark Vianello and the school board’s attorney, Michael McKinley, was obtained by the Florida Freedom to Read Project (FFTRP) through a public records request and shared with Popular Information. FFTRP requested “electronic records of district and school decisions regarding classroom and library materials.” In response, FFTRP received a document memorializing a July 24 conversation between Vianello and district librarians, known in Florida as media specialists.
So taking away those books is supposed to stop all kids from turning gay?
Why haven’t all the thousands of straight character books turned gay kids straight?Enough of this stupidity.
Nah. It’s supposed to make all LGBTQ+ kids feel like they are alone and that something is wrong with them so they hide who they are and are easier for others to manipulate.
If you find yourself googling art from YA fiction, you’ll soon realize that the straight characters have a better chance of turning the gay kids gayer.
Maybe the idea is to stop some kids from realizing or accepting they’re gay.
Fuck censorship - posted for the kids of Charlotte County.
I’d take out all the books that have any characters that don’t mention their sexuality and say that I’m protecting kids because Huck Finn could be gay.
They’d probably be fine with that. Honestly, they probably wish they could just shut the whole place down; you’d be doing them a favor.
Any character that isn’t actively pursuing someone of the opposite gender is clearly asexual. There is absolutely no other possibility.
Even those in heterosexual relationships could be bi.
Don’t forget to throw out the Bible!
Imagine being that afraid of who other people love. The world has never seen such cowardice.
Damn. Republicans really are fascist. As if we didn’t know already but God damn.
The fact that they are not taking out books with heterosexual characters as well shows this is only about bigotry.
i’m a christian and know the bible well. These types of actions do not match how Jesus instructed us to act. When asked by frustrated tax payers whether they should continue paying the unfair taxes, jesus looked at the coin, asked “who’s face is on the coin?” It was Caesar. And he said, “Then give to Caesar what is Caesars, and give to God what is God’s.”
You see, they thought he was going to affirm their desire to revolt and stop paying their taxes, because in their view, jesus was a rebel and of course he would support people rising up to collectively cut off the flow of tax money to the worst government the world had ever seen? No. Jesus said, no don’t do that. Just give it to them. Play the long game. Give up this battle, but win the war.
Similarly, when I as a christian am asked by another christian “shouldn’t we ban these books? they have sinful activity”…I say, no. let the books stay where they are. it’s a library. if what you believe is true, then mere pieces of paper with drawings and text in them should change nothing. Let God sort it out later. You just live your life.
Jesus was much more interested in the inner life of each person, and he made a specific point of telling people to mind their own business and get their own house in order before worrying about everyone else.
Cancel culture done right. Pun intended.
Florida has really turned into crap over the past few years. Politically, it wasn’t great to begin with, but it has certainly gone south for a while now.
Republicans are afraid that LGBTQ characters will humanize LGBTQ people and children might learn to empathize with them, which would reduce bigotry against them.
Uh, “LOL 1A?”
Is the goal to create places so inhospitable to open minds, that those who possess a shred of empathy flee, creating a conservative gravity well of votes? Is that even sustainable
That’s half the goal.
The other half is to make areas so hostile that the people who can’t flee just keep their heads down and stay closeted so no one hurts them.
And to increase suicides
Jesus told me to love my brother 👀
Allegories aside, the Bible definitely has a few LGBTQ characters, even if they’re not portrayed in a very positive light. I suppose that means they’ll be banning the Bible from school libraries? Not to mention a fair amount of historical literature… including anything featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Florence Nightingale, King James (yes, that King James), William Shakespeare, King Richard I, or Julius Caesar.
It will be interesting to see whether this makes the history classes easier, for lack of material to cover, or harder, for lack of references.
And my step brother 👀
