A lawsuit, filed by patrons of a county library in Arkansas, has been allowed to move forward by a federal court. The First Amendment lawsuit plausibly alleges the library’s decision to move anything determined to be “LGBTQ” from the children’s section to the adult’s section violates the First Amendment right to equitable access to information. (via Courthouse News Service)
Here’s how this started, according to the decision [PDF] that moves this lawsuit forward:
[I]n late 2022 or early 2023 the Crawford County Library System implemented a policy under which its library branches must remove from their children’s sections all books containing LGBTQ themes, affix a prominent color label to those books, and place them in a newly-created section called the “social section.” Plaintiffs allege this policy was imposed on the Library System by the Crawford County Quorum Court in response to political pressure from constituents who objected, at least partly on religious grounds, to the presence of these books in the children’s section.
The major benefit that lemmy has over reddit is that the moderators here don’t broker bigots’ shit.
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Don’t bother. The dude is a troll.
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it’s better to just write new comments and downvote such that theirs get burried.
Engaging them just makes longer threads that draw attention to their comments. Everytime you reply, he comes back and adds more comments.
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Well he is also arguing to bury them in downvotes, which is partially helpful towards dealing with them
But since that doesn’t matter on lemmy/kbin maybe reporting would be better. but still downvote since the option is there of course.
They also have fun with it. Their goal is to waste your time. So even if you have fun with it, you’re still boosting the behavior so they can go back to their corners and share it with others, who then also come back.
There’s a reason so many spaces just rely on banning. Your time is better spent sharing reasonable articles for the people who actually are semi-coherent, and you’re going to have more effect doing that.
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I don’t watch Fox news.
Children should not be reading about advanced sexual theory.
Period. There is no discussion to be had here. I am more than happy to be a bigoted moron in your eyes if you can’t handle that fact.
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You’re welcome to share anything you want with your children. I think it’s presumptuous for you to make that decision for other parents.
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You’re gonna have to try harder if you wanna reel people in, this is weak bait.
Omg how did you know gay people spend their day in the library, covertly providing advanced LGBT propaganda in order to convert innocent children into super liberals??
Shut it down everyone, they figured out our agenda /s
I think it’s presumptuous for you to make that decision for other parents.
Just like you’re doing?
You can subject your child to whatever you like.
I’m gonna subject your wife to a better relationship.
Woah, that’s interesting!
Anyways, back to the actual topic
Who cares what “facts” a bigot makes? Bigots by nature claim non-factual things as facts.
If you’ll accept you’re a bigot then the discussion is done and your opinion doesn’t matter to people who actually care about others.
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You accept you’re a bigot. We don’t accept that it’s “advanced sexual theory”. Which just sounds like an attempt to shame people arguing actual logic to you.
These are children’s books, not “advanced sexual theory”, whatever the fuck that is. Learning about LGBTQ+ people is not inherently sexual. If it is, then any book showing any relationship, LGBTQ+ or cishet, is “advanced sexual theory”. LGBTQ+ people exist that way from birth just like cishet people do. The sooner children realize that what they are is not unusual and not “wrong”, the less emotional and psychological trauma they will face.
LGBTQ is advanced sexual theory.
Straight is taught at the PhD level
Uhhh no it’s not. Do you know what it fucking means?
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The majority of people don’t want to subject their children to this stuff and that’s just the facts.
Lol. Thanks, I needed a good laugh today.
I’d argue you’re treating your children like pets and not the human beings who have to grow up into this world without any actual knowledge, because you’re pushing them away not from advanced knowledge but in this case what should be basics knowledge.
They have to learn about this stuff eventually, and teenagers are still not assumed adults legally. This would push them from that knowledge far, far, far too late.
Maybe to a rock with a negative IQ, if you aren’t a bigot piece of shit you wouldn’t say things like that.
How does Heather Has Two Mommies relate to advanced sexual theory? Does any reference to families now become advanced sexual theory because families are the result of sexual reproduction, or is it only heteronormative families that are not sexual?
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Because you’re a moron.
Don’t bother. They think they need access to children or they will die. Like they actually think that, and I honestly don’t think they realize how that sounds.
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Yeah, the US has a great history of moving certain demographics to a separate section in order to appease bigots.
The government has never done anything bad by censuring certain people due to their identity. It’s the government, and they’re making dozens of small decisions in small, right leaning rural areas which has no effect on the people there.
Moving a few books 20 feet is a little different than forcibly moving minorities into shanty towns.
You made it pretty clear in your original comment that you don’t see the issue.
And then you provided evidence to support that.
Not surprising given your blatant bigotry.
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Its an odd choice, but I wouldnt get bothered by it.
Id be more concerned a public library has a porn section.
Also, if you read the article, youd see they were moved to the social section.
Okay, then how about the fact that the books were removed on religious grounds. Please enlighten me as to your justification for how using religion as a pretext is totally fine, but educating children as to the reality of human social interactions, is heinous?
Again, you do not care. It’s just whatever fits your narrative.
They weren’t removed.
They were just hidden. On religious grounds, by bigots. Which is the only reason you’re defending them.
I wouldnt consider proudly displaying on a shelf “hiding”
I wouldnt consider proudly displaying on a shelf “hiding”
I wouldn’t consider intentionally misfiling books anything else. Of course, you’re only saying that because they’re hiding books about the minorities you hate. You know it’s hiding and support it because it’s hiding.
And you keep ignoring anything about government doing this on religious grounds. Since your repeated lies in support of bigots have made it clear that you don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt, I won’t waste any more time with said benefit. You want a fascist theocracy run by bigots like yourself.
Why’d you change your username?
Super minor decisions like saying children’s books aren’t for children because of bigotry.
Get out.
I get why bigots would want to hide children’s books from children. After all, they don’t want their children taught that the minorities they want to murder in camps are people.
But why should anyone else want to hide books from the library patrons they’re written for?
