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This is absurd. Are we going to start cutting up their food too? Maybe hire some people to help wipe their ass? If you don't want younger grades reading about sex or violence, fair enough. Put those books in a separate section for older grades, like gr. 5 or 6 up, but don't remove them. And certainly not for fucking high-school. How can we expect kids to mature and learn responsibly and citical thinking if we remove challenging material?
That is the point, exactly. They don't want critical thinkers.
“I love the poorly educated”
Teenagers are already experiencing difficult situations like sex, drugs, and violence but aren't being allowed to read about them
Exactly. Hiding these things doesn't make them dissappear. Trying to keep these topics away from younger people will only make them unprepared when they are confronted by these situations. It's the same logic that took away sex-ed from lower grades. The reault? Uptick in teen pregnancy and STDs.
Conservatism requires an un-educated/under-educated electorate that can be trivially manipulated using alternative facts. It just cannot survive otherwise.
That’s not to say conservatism doesn’t have its fair share of intelligent people. But they’re the ones at the top or using money to manipulate the party from the shadows, trying to get the working class to vote against their own best interests.
Well that’s the fucking point: these skills are in their way of controlling minds or at least keep them dumb enough so that they don’t question their circumstances, particularly those created by those who decided to ban those books. Knowledge is power, and so if you can remove knowledge…