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[Cosmic Wonder]

Mom’s for Liberty.

Who want to ban books.

Mike

[Tamarack]

Grrrr

[aquaduct]

Yeah, they seem to think schools exposing their elementary school kids to porn is objectionable. And then they go and think that they should have more control of their kids than the people who run the schools that they pay.

Go figure. Right wing fascists!

[millring]

Yeah, the gratuitous use of apostrophe's is more than I can suffer.

[Marty]

Jun 30, 2023 19:46:33 GMT -5 Cosmic Wonder said:

Mom’s for Liberty.

Who want to ban books.

Mike

But only the books THEY think are improper?

[howard lee]

To get specific about this very hot-button topic, here is the full list of books the Brevard County, FL, chapter of Moms for Liberty has sought to have removed from schools [courtesy of Newsweek]. It has been many years since I read any YA fiction, so no comment, but I thought this might help you do your own research:

Damsel by Elana K. Arnold

Forever by Judy Blume

Lucky by Alice Sebold

Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth

Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold

Sold by Patricia McCormick

This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki

What Girls are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Infandous by Elana K. Arnold

Push by Sapphire

The Haters by Jesse Andrews

The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

Tilt by Ellen Hopkins

Triangles by Ellen Hopkins

Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

Breathless by Jennifer Niven

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle

YOU: A Novel by Caroline Kepnes

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres

People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins

Beautiful by Amy Reed

Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Normal People by Sally Rooney

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

www.newsweek.com/moms-liberty-banned-book-list-schools-1756574

[jdd2]

[james]

Moms for liberty spout a repulsive and toxic mess of harmful and malevolent ignorance, cruelty, lies and bigotry. Unsurprisingly they have become powerful players on the right.

glaad.org/gap/moms-liberty/

www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/moms-liberty

[howard lee]

Moms for Liberty. The quote from Adolf Hitler on the cover of their June 2023 newsletter makes me feel REAL secure. Oh, yeah.

And talk about irony, Mister! The statement immediately beneath it.

Sorry, Mods. I couldn't stay silent on this one.

[aquaduct]

Jul 1, 2023 9:01:39 GMT -5 howard lee said:

Moms for Liberty. The quote from Adolf Hitler on the cover of their June 2023 newsletter makes me feel REAL secure. Oh, yeah.

And talk about irony, Mister! The statement immediately beneath it.

Sorry, Mods. I couldn't stay silent on this one.

Right. But even I, a dumb old engineer, can read it as intended.

It is a warning quote that the leftists are coming for your children, in the same manner as Hitler came after Jews and pretty much everybody.

It's fairly irrelevant what we all think about it. We don't have to send our elementary school students to Florida schools. What the parents of those kids want done for their kids that they pay the school system for is entirely their business.

[drlj]

Using a quote from Hitler is pretty stupid no matter what the intent.

[james]

www.gendergp.com/remembering-the-institute-for-sexual-research-and-lgbtq-victims-of-the-holocaust/

theconversation.com/historians-are-learning-more-about-how-the-nazis-targeted-trans-people-205622

[james]

Heather Cox Richardson wrote a thing describing and contextualising Moms for Liberty's activities.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-7-2023

[jdd2]

... Sarah J. Maas

Since she's on the list for like six different books, I had a look, and at least from a distance, my reaction is "eh?". Maybe that it's fantasy, which, like harry potter, is perceived as anti-religious?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_J._Maas

Maas began writing what would become her debut novel, Throne of Glass, when she was sixteen years old.[7][10] After writing several chapters of the novel, then titled Queen of Glass, Maas posted them on FictionPress.com, where it was one of the most popular stories on the site. It was later removed from the site when Maas decided to publish the novel.[10] The story line of the series is based on the story of Cinderella, with the premise of "What if Cinderella was not a servant, but an assassin? And what if she didn't attend the ball to meet the prince, but to kill him, instead?"[10][11] In 2008, Maas started sending the story to agents before signing with Tamar Rydzinski of The Laura Dial Literary Agency in 2009.[10] Throne of Glass was purchased in March 2010 by Bloomsbury, who later purchased two additional books in the series.[12] The series is available in 15 countries and 35 languages.[7][13] While four prequel novellas set two years before the first novel were also published, these were later condensed into one book, The Assassin's Blade plus an original novella.[14] The second book of the series, Crown of Midnight was a New York Times young adult best-seller.[3][15] The final book in the series, Kingdom of Ash, was released on October 23, 2018; the finished series comprised seven books plus the novella collection.[8][13]

A Court of Thorns and Roses, Maas' second fantasy series, is a loose retelling of the traditional Beauty and the Beast.[16][17] The first book of the trilogy was written in 2009, but was not published until 2015. Due to the success and popularity of the original series, it was extended and a spin-off series was announced which would feature stories of other popular characters. The fourth book in the series and the first of the spin-offs, A Court of Silver Flames was published on February 16, 2021.[18]

On May 16, 2018, Maas announced her third fantasy series which is also her first adult fantasy series, Crescent City. The first book, titled House of Earth and Blood, was released by Bloomsbury on March 3, 2020.[19][20] It was ranked one of the top twenty Science Fiction & Fantasy books of 2020 on Kobo.[21] The sequel, House of Sky and Breath, was released on February 15, 2022.[22] The third installation of the series, House of Flame and Shadow, is set to release in January of 2024.

She was ranked the fifth most popular author between 2016 and 2021 on Goodreads.[23]

[epaul]

Fantasy authors are noted for slipping "influencers" into their work using the fog of fantasy to mask their intent. Earlier this year, I read a fantasy series by a up and coming Canadian writer. Just another fantasy series I thought, until I caught myself on a store camera one day carrying out a couple cases of Molsons while wearing my Maple Leafs stocking cap."Who is that goofy-looking guy with the Maple Leafs cap and the two cases of Molsons?" I thought. Then it hit me.

[epaul]

Seeing as we have a fantasy author in house... What are you people up to?