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Peter's avatar

The stated reason will be that "Spin the Bottle" is porn. The real reason will either be mixing monkeys and aardvarks, DIVERSITY!!! OMG!!! or that Arthur made rich girls feel bad.

But let me ask a different question - when hundreds of challenges in multiple districts are coming from one guy, is there a time when his challenges need to be immediately directed to the circular file?

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Adam's avatar

There comes a time when one MUST consider the source and in doing so, give all challenges the consideration they are due.

In Friedman's case, that would be none!

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SeekingReason's avatar

Adam, we need more than that. Are the majority in this country asleep? Why allow this.? Time to remove federal funding to these states for incompetence & danger to society.

Could this person be making a point with Arthur?

Or perhaps it is time to disallow dangerous republicans or even christians to be served across this country. Make them national security risks, or a danger to society. Now I know this isnтАЩt realistic but a taste of their own medicine would be fun to watch.

I love the MoveOn Banned Books van. Time to buy up the Arthur books! I love Arthur! Such a great learning series for you g children. It is UP TO US to make sure this attack stops.

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Bruce Brittain's avatar

Seeking Reason, your question, "Are the majority in this country asleep?" misses a crucial fact. Tens of millions of Americans side with the Friedman, not with the rational, reality-tethered others (us). The dis-information industry preaches to and encourages people such as Friedman. The industry gives him and millions more the justification to be untethered from reality and act on it. Those same voters gave us Trump, DeSantis, MTG, Gaetz, Boebert, et al. Catering to that base, McConnell gave us a 6-3 majority right wing Supreme Court. These ills, not just the Florida attempt to educate their children to be trainable morons, are the consequences of letting the dis-information industry hide behind the First Amendment.

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Terry's avatar

10s of millions? It only takes 1 person to fill out a form. Like that lady who opposed Amanda Gorman's poetry book. The lady opposing didn't even know who wrote the poem, for God's sake. She wrote on the form that Oprah Winfrey wrote it. These people are unhinged and should be fought against. For every 1 of them, I think there's 100 that want the books and understand their child can learn something or they can simply not check the book out. Their first amendment right can't infringe on MY rights. Period.

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Bruce Brittain's avatar

I certainly donтАЩt disagree with your тАЬone personтАЭ observation but otherwise, I believe you missed my point. Perhaps I should have made it clearer. I do not agree that for every one of them there are 100 who disagree. If that were the case, Florida wouldnтАЩt have DeSantis as governor.

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Terry's avatar

I'm sorry! I didn't realize you were referring ONLY to Florida!

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MJ Maccabee's avatar

You're assuming that Florida represents a fair cross section of the US. It does not. The elder demographic skews conservative-to-right-wing, as does much of the Cuban community, among others. Not to mention that by now the infamously rightwing governor is attracting like minds.

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SeekingReason's avatar

Spot on Bruce! We really allowed a right wing monopoly of media way back. We need to get members in Congress who will put a definitive end to this outlet to destroy any sense of democracy or any form of fairness.

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Adam's avatar

Agreed. I'd love to make the maga folken CRAWL!

Not charitable of me I know but these folks are a danger to society. They would tear it all down with their own damn hands, then blame "the Libs" and the socialastic-communistic-woketywoke-softhanded-covidass-no gun zone-Marxo/Commu/Homo/Feminazi/Skirt wearing MFing... you get the picture.

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SeekingReason's avatar

Adam, never be charitable to the domestic deadly seditionists and terrorists. ЁЯШД ItтАЩs the last thing we should be to them!

IтАЩd like to see them rounded up for hard labor in the hot sun..no water allowed to be brought to the terrorists, following GeorgiaтАЩs rules!

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Adam's avatar

From your lips...

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SeekingReason's avatar

ЁЯШДтЭдя╕П

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antipode77's avatar

Allowing 3000+ book challenges by a single person is tantamount to the majority being governed by an extremist minority.

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Peter's avatar

And here we are, being held hostage by Matt Gaetz, Gym Jordan, Bobo, MTG, Mitch McConnell and Joe Manchin.

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