Re: Books Banned in Utah.

On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 17:51:28 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 8/8/2024 10:42 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 10:40:38 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
 

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On Wed, 7 Aug 2024, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
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On 8/7/2024 6:07 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 8/7/2024 6:23 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:

In article <v90pgc$3clah$1@dont-email.me>, Titus G  <noone@nowhere.com>
wrote:

Utah has banned 13 books, including Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
which basically claims that large corporations are not to be trusted
with science.
I do not know any of the other authors but Sarah J. Maas writes Fantasy.
James Nichol will be delighted that women are being recognised with
twelve of the thirteen books being written by women.
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Once again: BS.
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Utah has decided those books

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What right does any state have to do that?

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The same as you, their money, their choices.
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You mean, "their money, their imposing their choices on everyone else".
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That is basically what politics and democracy is all about. A majority
imposing their choices on a minority, for better and for worse.

 
In a general sense, yes. However, the minority has rights that the
majority cannot infringe by law.

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For the moment....

Back in the mid-90s, the Republicans (in Congress, at least) convinced
themselves that the American people hated the Federal Government and
would not mind it it were shut down.

So they shut it down. My reaction: "a day on furlough is a day on
job-search".

The Republicans got a nasty surprise: it turned out that the American
People /liked/ the Federal Government and wanted it to be funded.

The result: a disaster for Republicans at the next election (Newt lost
his job over this, don't even try to downplay it) and the assured
re-election of Bill Clinton.

That's what happened the /last/ time the Republicans in Congress made
up their own minds as to what the American people wanted.

Next time the American People may not wait for the next election to
express their displeasure. Things have deteriorated to the point that
that is a possibility.

And we still don't know why some kid tried to assassinate Trump. And
without knowing /that/ we can't say what form of wing-nuttery he was
expressing, and how many others share it.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"