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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Tbf most of the ones “banned” are banned because of language (I found as many of the PDFs as I could one time and searched the documents for “fuck,” which many of them contained, or other words that would be banned in schools), or in one case a graphic novel with a panel depicting a blowjob, and I have been corrected before that it “wasn’t technically a blowjob it was ‘strap on play,’” but, c’mon strap on play is banned in schools too whether it’s between straights or gays. Sure it’s educational, but it’s not the same as an anti racist book that has the N-word in a historical context (TKAM) or something. Most of those are still going to be banned due to that, the rape scenes in a few, “fuck,” “cocksucker,” etc.

    This seems more like a feel good measure just to say “See we fixed it! All those same books are still banned, but now we’re claiming the actual reasons instead of homophobia.” I’d be interested to see an itemized breakdown of the ISBNs before/after.

    For reference, here’s a PDF to Gender Queer on Archive, one of the most popularized, at the top of every “they banned these books” list:

    https://archive.org/details/gender-queer-a-memoir-by-maia-kobabe-z-lib.org/page/62/mode/1up

    A) Share it with anyone who needs it! I don’t believe in limiting the free flow of information online or at the public libraries (bans there are eggregious flat out), but

    B) Check out page 62 and page 168, this would never fly in my schools whether it was straight or gay, let’s be real.







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    because rainbow ribbons are preferable to kids in cages in this dystopia

    Btw, I’d just like to drop a friendly reminder that those camps with the kids in cages started under Obama, continued under Trump (duh), and continued under Biden and in fact ramped up, not down, and they’ll continue under trump again, I’m guessing, and whoever is after that too, so idk about the “preferable to,” seems more like “kids in rainbow painted cages.”



  • One note, “liberal” to them is synonymous with “nazi,” and they do actually, openly, want to kill you for being one (from this comment alone lol, and me too, and everyone else they label liberal). They’re losers who will never succeed in revolution, and most of them won’t do anything beyond cry online, but they should still be considered dangerous and untrustworthy as one of them is liable to pull some dumb shit in the name of their religion and their god Marx (yes it is a religion if they treat it like one.)