Re: Censorship of books in libraries

On Apr 15, 2024 at 1:38:35 AM PDT, "FPP" <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 4/14/24 3:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  In article <uvgj0h$3kt9v$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
  wrote:
 

  On 4/13/24 12:57 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:

  On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:11:32 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>

  Nope. It prohibited 'don't say straight' every bit as much as
  'don't say gay'.
>
  In other words, it was telling teachers to keep their personal sex
  lives to themselves and out of the classroom.
>
  Hardly an unreasonable position for anyone who isn't a lunatic.

>
  More to the point, it's restricted to 'primary age' kids which around
  here means grades 1-3. Which in my opinion is totally reasonable. If
  it were grades 9-12 I likely would feel differently.
>

  Sure. Until it isn't. You start there and they quickly worked their
  way up.
>
  That's how it's done. Once you see the nose of a camel in the tent,
  it's quickly followed by the rest of the camel.

    You guys are the geniuses of incrementalism. You did it masterfully with
  destroying the criminal justice system here in California.
    It started with Newsom unilaterally doing away with the death penalty
  despite the fact that the people of California not only passed it into
  law through their elected representatives, but then they reaffirmed
  their support for it overwhelmingly in two subsequent ballot measures.
  But Newsom overrode all 40 million of us and imposed his own political
  preference by fiat.
    (There's that precious 'muh democracy' that y'all are always so worried
  about.)
    And he and his fellow Dems in the Assembly said, "Don't worry, even
  without the death penalty the really bad guys will still be in prison
  for life without parole."
    A few years go by, then the same characters start talking about how not
  giving people the chance for parole is too cruel, so they started
  passing laws giving LWOP convicts the ability to challenge their
  sentences and have them converted to life *with* possibility of parole.
    Then came Prop 47 and Prop 57. One started the process of releasing all
  non-violent criminals from state prisons. The other reclassified a whole
  host of objectively violent crimes as 'non-violent' so they would
  qualify for release and downgraded dozens of felonies to misdemeanors so
  criminals wouldn't even be sent to prison in the first place. This was
  sold to the public by Kamala Harris as "The Safe Schools and
  Neighborhoods Initiative".
    Now they're releasing any murderer, no matter how heinous his crime, if
  he was convicted before 1994. So life in prison is now effectively no
  more than 30 years and "Only the non-violent offenders will be released"
  has morphed into throwing open the doors and letting pre-meditated
  murderers run free.
    Then the Dems staffed the Public Safety Committee in the Assembly with
  the most radical hug-a-thug pols in Sacramento to ensure no new crimes
  are ever added to the penal code. They wouldn't even make sex
  trafficking of minors a 3-strike eligible felony until they were shamed
  into it when their refusal to do so made international news. Selling
  kids for sex isn't bad enough to warrant prison time for these lunatics.
    All this happened bit-by-bit over the course of 10 years as part of a
  well-coordinated plan by 'progressive' Democrats to empty our prisons
  and jails and neuter the criminal justice system in the state. They knew
  they could never do it in one fell swoop even though they had the votes
  for it because the boiling frog (the public) would scream holy hell and
  vote them all out. So they did it one little bit at a time,
  step-by-step, and now here we are, with crime out of control, businesses
  shutting down in the major cities and fleeing the state, and the public
  wondering how society seemed to have disintegrated overnight.
    What has always puzzled me and continues to do so is why? Why do
  'progressive' leftists seem to love the idea of living in a lawless
  hellscape instead of a civilized society?
 

You are exhausting.

 Good. Means I'm doing something right if I'm exhausting you people.