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- texas@lemmy.world
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- texas@lemmy.world
Conservative-dominated court restores books denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’ to school libraries
An appellate court has ruled that Texas cannot ban books from libraries simply because they mention “butt and fart” and other content which some state officials may dislike.
The fifth US circuit court of appeals issued its decision on Thursday in a 76-page majority opinion, which was written by Judge Jacques Wiener Jr and opened with a quote from American poet Walt Whitman: “The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.”
In its decision, the appellate court declared that “government actors may not remove books from a public library with the intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree”.
Butts make funny noises when you pass gas. Babies laugh at it. They have no idea what’s going on at all 95% of the time, but they get that farts are funny.
Unfortunately, we know how this is going to go: “If you won’t let us ban books from the library, we’ll just ban the library.”
Already happening in some places. Local governments are cutting library funding because they don’t like the some of the content that their libraries are stocking, but the courts won’t let them ban it all.
Which was probably the intent from the start.
what, trying to equate “butt” and “fart” with porn didn’t work?
-moron GOP who think everyone is as dumb as they are
Every child between the ages of 2 and 10 would find a book with nothing but the words ‘butt’ and ‘fart’ endlessly amusing.
And these old farts are complaining about how “soft” today’s youth are? They really need to get their heads out of their butts.
And when bullshit like this gets passed and they get in trouble, they automatically assume it’s the left lol
They gonna come for your post next.
And also tout freedom of speech.
Take that you butt-hurt fart knockers.
Get fucked fascists. Exactly never are the ones banning/burning books on the right side of history.
Is this a form of gaslighting?
Imagine having to write 76 pages in respond to this bullshit
for extra effect, I recommend reading through the opinion first before imagining. The high quality of the writing really accentuates the ludicrous degree of clown shit on display from the GOP.
The primary opinion is only 27 pages. The rest is a three page concurrence a 46 page dissent by Duncan.
To be fair, he didn’t have to make it that long.
On the other hand, we wouldn’t have gotten this:
• Seven “butt and fart” books, with titles like I Broke My Butt! and Larry the Farting Leprechaun;
Anyone else thinking that this Judge would have gotten his autobiography banned for profanity just for the name?
which was written by Judge Jacques Wiener Jr
Heh heh
Poetry in motion
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Sounds like they’re the ones in need of new butts.
Apparently terms that anyone over 12 years old doesn’t find funny anymore count as “adult”.
Is this conservatives admitting that they are all just immature children?
Awesome. Time to check out “The Poop That Took a Pee.”