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(Quad City Times)   Governor Kim Reynolds (K-och) declares that if just ONE school bans ONE book because ONE person objected to it, then ALL schools in the state must ban it as well   (qctimes.com) divider line
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2311 clicks; posted to Politics » on 04 Feb 2023 at 10:05 PM (7 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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ImpendingCynic
2023-02-04 6:31:17 PM  
 Bible *cough*
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 6:53:36 PM  
Ban Atlas Shrugged.
 
Sub Human [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 7:30:06 PM  
If any book is dangerous, then all books are dangerous. Burn them all!

/"they will either contradict the Koran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with it, so they are superfluous."
 
jlee4677 [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 7:57:25 PM  
Ban all books with excessive sex and violence, the best selling book of all time is one of these books. Get rid of it everywhere.
 
Phaedrus the Vague
2023-02-04 8:50:52 PM  
Reynolds accused "the radical left" of treating students like "their personal property,"
shortly after demanding that all schools in the state ban the same books.

The first casualty of any GQP lawfare is inconvenient local rule.
 
King Something [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 8:57:09 PM  
Lot got Cosby'd by his daughters.
 
Notabunny [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 8:58:36 PM  
If one plane flies over Iowa without landing, then all planes should
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 10:06:42 PM  
If one thing is everything then everything is nothing!
 
Kris_Romm
2023-02-04 10:10:26 PM  
Good.  We need an Iowa school to step up and ban The Bible.
 
Emposter [OhFark]
2023-02-04 10:10:46 PM  
The irony of being unable to read this article about students being unable to read certain books is...this is irony, right?
 
olorin604
2023-02-04 10:11:15 PM  
Hey has anyone mentioned the bible being banned yet?
 
Ecliptic [OhFark]
2023-02-04 10:11:54 PM  
Is this some Q-crazy where we go one we go all nonsense?
 
Free Radical
2023-02-04 10:14:41 PM  
So if California bans a slew of his fave Jebus books, he'll be fine with all schools banning them.

Somehow I doubt this.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-04 10:15:58 PM  

Jake Havechek: Ban Atlas Shrugged.


"He raised his hand and over the desolate earth he traced in space the sign of the swastika."
 
Rapmaster2000
2023-02-04 10:17:14 PM  
I love so much about this.  She wants the GOP nomination so bad. She might be the lady who polls OK and loses.  Republicans aren't nominating a broad.

The other part I enjoy is remembering 2020 when NYT was like "everyone is leaving New York forever and buying houses in the sticks."  This is why that never happened. Educated people aren't letting their kids go to hillbilly schools.
 
harleyquinnical
2023-02-04 10:17:25 PM  
Because tyranny of the minority is the best tyranny.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-04 10:22:59 PM  
There are 1,310 public schools in Iowa. The average public school library holds between 10,000 and 15,000 books. If the schools coordinate, they each need only ban ten books and, voilla, no more libraries and the children are saved.  They could repurpose the libraries as chapels for even more savings.
 
2wolves [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 10:23:42 PM  
Why didn't evolution make stupidity physical painful?
 
moothemagiccow
2023-02-04 10:24:08 PM  
That's how government, and by extension, society works. Unanimous consent. Nothing short of unanimous consent is required for every action we take. That's why my kids' teachers send out public twitter polls before they utter any sentence out loud.
 
Lusiphur
2023-02-04 10:26:27 PM  
Fair enough. Go down the entire required reading list for grades k-12 and object to everything on there. Keep doing this every time they change it.
 
DannyBrandt [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 10:26:35 PM  

2wolves: Why didn't evolution make stupidity physical painful?


It has.

I stubbed my toe on the corner of the dresser again.

It's been in the same spot for 4 years, and this is the 5th time this has happened.

Ow.
 
Nuc_E
2023-02-04 10:27:48 PM  
Kim.  On behalf of my mother in law, a retired public school librarian.  fark.  Off.

/Former Iowan
 
Yakk
2023-02-04 10:29:38 PM  
"...and the book burners were the real heroes in the end." - said no one ever.
 
zimmerit
2023-02-04 10:29:59 PM  
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Mr.Insightful
2023-02-04 10:30:05 PM  

harleyquinnical: Because tyranny of the minority is the best tyranny.


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Totally agreed!  Minority trans's are the best!
 
rzrwiresunrise
2023-02-04 10:31:46 PM  
Can you just take a moment to recognize that Republicans are finally getting on board with equality by giving a minority what it wants, libs?
 
olorin604
2023-02-04 10:31:57 PM  
Keep it up Kim, Missouri needs all the help it can get to not look like the most backward Midwest state.
 
Bith Set Me Up
2023-02-04 10:32:32 PM  
Reynolds accused "the radical left" of treating students like "their personal property," and asserted some educators believe patriotism is racist and that pornographic books are education.

America hasn't had a "radical left" for at least 50 years.
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 10:36:27 PM  

Bith Set Me Up: Reynolds accused "the radical left" of treating students like "their personal property," and asserted some educators believe patriotism is racist and that pornographic books are education.

America hasn't had a "radical left" for at least 50 years.


It's really time we get one back. Something farther left than the Weathermen, approaching the Japanese Red Army perhaps.
 
New Rising Sun
2023-02-04 10:36:46 PM  

Notabunny: If one plane flies over Iowa without landing, then all planes should


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Mr.Insightful
2023-02-04 10:37:48 PM  

Bith Set Me Up: Reynolds accused "the radical left" of treating students like "their personal property," and asserted some educators believe patriotism is racist and that pornographic books are education.

America hasn't had a "radical left" for at least 50 years.


Clown declares that clown doesn't exist. While honking his own nose.
 
DarkSoulNoHope
2023-02-04 10:37:54 PM  

Bith Set Me Up: Reynolds accused "the radical left" of treating students like "their personal property," and asserted some educators believe patriotism is racist and that pornographic books are education.

America hasn't had a "radical left" for at least 50 years.


"Radical Left" these days is regulating drug prices and saying taxpayer money should pay for healthcare, instead of seizing the means of production.
 
mistahtom
2023-02-04 10:38:37 PM  
Billions in corn subsidies leading to trillions in health care waste.
 
LurkerSupreme [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 10:39:17 PM  
I object to my math textbook. I find their coverage of algebraic equations to be deeply offensive and inappropriate.

You know what? Throw in my English textbook as well. And history, and science, and...
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-04 10:40:08 PM  

2wolves: Why didn't evolution make stupidity physical painful?


Username checks out.

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RogermcAllen [OhFark]
2023-02-04 10:40:57 PM  

LurkerSupreme: I object to my math textbook. I find their coverage of algebraic equations to be deeply offensive and inappropriate.

You know what? Throw in my English textbook as well. And history, and science, and...


I still can't believe that the socialists were able to sneak a book full of Arabic numbers into our public schools in the first place.
 
HedlessChickn [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 10:41:34 PM  

zimmerit: [Fark user image 850x637]


my first thought as well.
 
DarkSoulNoHope
2023-02-04 10:41:52 PM  

Mr.Insightful: Bith Set Me Up: Reynolds accused "the radical left" of treating students like "their personal property," and asserted some educators believe patriotism is racist and that pornographic books are education.

America hasn't had a "radical left" for at least 50 years.

Clown declares that clown doesn't exist. While honking his own nose.


You're a pro-Corporate cheerleader who moans everytime someone suggests regulating businesses after they get caught red handed doing illegal things, sit down.
 
moothemagiccow
2023-02-04 10:43:18 PM  

Mr.Insightful: Bith Set Me Up: Reynolds accused "the radical left" of treating students like "their personal property," and asserted some educators believe patriotism is racist and that pornographic books are education.

America hasn't had a "radical left" for at least 50 years.

Clown declares that clown doesn't exist. While honking his own nose.


Ah yes, Bith Set Me Up, aka the Secretary of Education
 
rzrwiresunrise
2023-02-04 10:43:27 PM  

DarkSoulNoHope: Bith Set Me Up: Reynolds accused "the radical left" of treating students like "their personal property," and asserted some educators believe patriotism is racist and that pornographic books are education.

America hasn't had a "radical left" for at least 50 years.

"Radical Left" these days is regulating drug prices and saying taxpayer money should pay for healthcare, instead of seizing the means of production.


That sounds a little too Norwegian for America's taste.
 
Magorn [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 10:44:06 PM  
Only one way to deal with this:  malicious compliance.  Object to EVERY SINGLE FARKING book, text book of class material in the who farking state.   Expose this for the absurdity it is
 
Northern
2023-02-04 10:44:35 PM  
Rich towns and cities can tell the governor to Fark off, since the schools are locally funded and controlled.  Thanks to the internet, banning books with mild language describing awkward teen romance does nothing.  Their precious snowflakes have already seen things their parents have done as teens.
 
cefm
2023-02-04 10:45:52 PM  
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KarmicDisaster [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 10:48:51 PM  

ImpendingCynic: Bible *cough*


There IS a lot of really weird stuff in there.
 
Shaggy_C
2023-02-04 10:50:21 PM  
Do kids actually check out books from the school library in this day and age? This feels like the biggest non-controversy yet.

If some book gets banished from the school library, my kids are probably going to read it as a matter of principle. It's not like the public library and the interwebz don't exist.
 
jlee4677 [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 10:52:24 PM  
A friend's gay son went to the east coast for college and someone asked why he isn't coming back. I asked them why would a young gay male come back to Iowa when they are now considered the enemy by the Governor and veto proof state legislature. This state has gone to hell the last few years. I am sheltered by it because I am a straight white male but being a liberal atheist doesn't make me feel comfortable here. My daughter is 2 years from graduating of high school so I might get out then.
 
LurkerSupreme [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 10:52:48 PM  

RogermcAllen: LurkerSupreme: I object to my math textbook. I find their coverage of algebraic equations to be deeply offensive and inappropriate.

You know what? Throw in my English textbook as well. And history, and science, and...

I still can't believe that the socialists were able to sneak a book full of Arabic numbers into our public schools in the first place.


I know right? And whose idea was it to expose our precious children to the horrors of Roman numerals? Everyone knows what kind of immoral homoerotic shenanigans those crazy Romans would get up to. Why first we teach our children their numbers, next thing you know half the class will be practicing sodomy and asking for drag queens to show up for their next birthday parties. It's obscene!
 
Gergesa
2023-02-04 10:54:25 PM  

ImpendingCynic: Bible *cough*


Come for the incest, stay for the slavery.
 
Al Tsheimers
2023-02-04 10:55:44 PM  

2wolves: Why didn't evolution make stupidity physical painful?


It is, but not for the ones that are stupid. My forehead is killing me.
 
vrax
2023-02-04 10:55:45 PM  
What kind of braindead idiot thinks this is, in any way, a good idea?

Oh, right...
 
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