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  Back to the book burnings, true to form for nazis
context: I find it sad groups of people who have never stepped foot in a library, or read a book in decades are that upset about what kids read. >
  
  They get upset at anything that might contradict their attempts at indoctrinating the children. >
  
  Imagine if they were upset about their polluted air or drinking water. >
  
  Have any of these nitwits ever read an actual book? >
  
  The Bible, oh wait no they haven't read that either. >
  
  They go to "Bible study" groups, where they get tools what passages are important or meaningful, and then are told exactly how to interpret those passages. Don't want the masses thinking on their own, you know. >
  
  The question that needs to get put to these people over and over, and hold their feet to the fire over it is this:  Why do your parental “rights” to ban a book override the “rights” of parents who have no problem with said book?  Especially since the very simple option of “don’t check the book out” exists for both families. >
  
  Conservative parents see their kids as property, not a living human being. Because they think of their kid as physical property rather than a person with independent thinking skills, they will treat kids like they have absolutely zero say in anything because they're just objects. >
  
  Their children are their retirement plans >
  
  They really do not want any libraries at all. >
  
  They want libraries, but they want every story in them to be told from a far-right, Christian nationalist perspective. >
  
  Like madrassas in Afghanistan >
  
  Pretty much. They want to remove everything that doesn't conform to their beliefs. They want to get rid of education and replace it with indoctrination. They don't want the next generation to be free thinkers. They want them to parrot the bigoted, outdated opinions of their parents. They want to ensure that the next generation to come, Generation Alpha, is the most Republican generation yet to ensure they keep their hold on power for decades to come. >
  
  For Gen Alpha, is that "the most Republican" in terms of numbers or are we talking about extreme? >
  
  Both. They want to force their extremely bigoted and outdated worldviews on the next generation so that they will become the next generation of GOP voters to replace the current GOP voter base who are dying off in the masses. >
  
  What the difference between a generations percentage wise? Gen alpha is going to diversify once they strike out on their own. >
  
  These parents are more fearful of a book having the word nipple in it than they are of a gun murdering their child
  Edit: grammar, I guess I need to read more >
  
  People making teachers quit their jobs are now set on making librarians quit their jobs >
  
  Nov 14, 2021 New Hampshire Moms for Liberty chapter offers $500 to anyone who can catch teachers breaking a new 'discrimination' law aka don't teach about racism >
  
  Is there a directly opposing group to these douche-canoes that I can donate to?  Because this shit boils my blood. >
  
  One of their plans is taking over local school boards. You can look into your local school boards and vote for them, run for them, and tell everyone you know to do the same to keep them from gaining power in your community. Check twitter to see if theres any groups already organized by you doing this. If theres not, search for the closest cities to find ones so you can get an idea of what they’re doing/focusing on and can do similar where you are. >
  
  This is a coordinated plan by the far right to consistently and repeatedly attack public education in an attempt to create a less educated and more controllable populace. >
  
  “Moral panics often serve as cover for organized abandonment and violent attacks,” as Drabinksi continued. Moms for Libraries, like Moms for Liberty before it, uses the reality of disinvestment in public libraries as an opportunity to argue for the private control of libraries. No wonder they have attracted allies like Betsy DeVos, Trump’s secretary of education, who said in July at a Moms for Liberty national conference, “I personally think the Department of Education should not exist.” >
  
  What about the former head of the department of energy? 
  He demanded that this department should be abolished.  He thought that the DOE was an oil lobbying branch of the government.  Not realizing that the DOE uses to be called, "department of atomic energy".  It is responsible for every microgram of physical material in the US that means the Navy, the Air Force,   the army, and every commercial reactors borrow the warheads 
  or pile  from the DOE. And that is that department's main focus. Not burning fossil fuels.  Yet this POS lead that very department. >
  
  Are you referring to Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas? >
  
  Moms for Libraries, like Moms for Liberty before it, uses the reality of disinvestment in public libraries as an opportunity to argue for the private control of libraries. >
  
  People that don't like libraries are bad people, full stop. >
  
  Don't let those nazis ban books.  Fuck the Republican party.  We are at war with fascism. >
  
  Any organization that has "Moms" or "Mothers" in the title you can be sure is some right-wing pearl clutching group of uneducated entitled Karens out force their beliefs on others. >
  
  What about MADD >
  
  They are a little extreme as well. Bunch of prohibition zealots who try to get videogames banned for depicting alcohol use, encourage warrantless searches, and petition for increased taxes. Fuck em. >
  
  What happened to raising your own children and letting other people do the same? >
  
  Right? They constantly yell they do this shit for “parents rights”. No other parent can have rights to raise their kids how they want to? >
  
  Conservative parents treat kids like property, instead of human beings. >
  
  Fascists gonna fascisize. >
  
  Yeah, these people are fascists >
  
  Have any of these nitwits ever read an actual book? I have a feeling they get their info from Facebook and YouTube. I doubt they have even read the Bible >
  
  The fact that they are not applying the same standard across gender and sexuality spectrum pretty much allows us to conclude that they are hypocrites or horny old perverts hoping to normalize heterosexual grooming. >
  
  My local news is talking about how they are sabotaging county commissioners meetings with their election denials and the commission complying they can’t get work done for the county. Same playbook.    edit: autocorrect >
  
  It is a coordinated playbook. They’re filing bogus lawsuits and excessive FOIA requests to intentionally bog schools down in paperwork. It’s disgusting how they’re getting away with it. >
  
  FOIA aren't always free. I work for the state and we can provide you your request as long as it's not unreasonable. If it will take more than 15 minutes we charge for it. We also charge for paper.
  I hope the districts are at least charging for these searches when it involves multiple people or locations to look at. >
  
  I’m one of the two FOIA officers where I work. It’s a county owned nursing home. People will request us for the strangest things like our arrest rates……. Then to top it off they get really irate when they find out that it’s not really all that cheap to get the info sometimes. >
  
  Also with request it does not have to be curated to your needs. If there's a report we run that has the info you want but requires you to dig through hundreds of pages to find it then you get hundreds of pages. I am not required to tell you what you want or provide it in a format we don't make. Obviously if someone asks a simple question that I can answer with one word I'll do it.
  Another thing is we don't have to explain ourselves. If you request a report or many reports and we give them to you we don't have to interpret it for you. You don't get to ask questions >
  
  Hey look! It's a valid slippery slope! Give social conservatives an inch and they take a mile. What a strange unicorn to find in this rhetorical environment. >
  
  I don’t like that “moms” are a special interest group >
  
  It’s intentionally engineered by the right >
  
  As the GOP forms a committee on the Weaponization of Politics - they project everything they do back on the left. I don't think a good faith conversation is possible with a modern day Republican. >
  
  Spread the word: Libby gives you access to lots of libraries right on your device. There is no stopping the information flow! >
  
  They need to leave the libraries alone! Kids need to know how to read diverse and interesting materials, not boring propaganda. >
  
  At this point it's time to play their own damn game. I need to see counter groups pushing to have the most mind blowing liberal policies. I want to see petitions for drag show story time at schools. Shove it so far in their face it's burned in their retinas. When they REALLY start to scream, then ask if they'd like to have a discussion about differences. >
  
  That's just bringing their straw man to life, their behavior is based on the belief that this is already happening. >
  
  Well yes, this sounds fairly typical for the MAGA fascist movement. But these days kids don't read much. They get their information from social media and they watch movies or play games for entertainment. >
  
  Where is FRANK ZAPPA when we need him??? >
  
  Don't eat yellow snow 🎵🎼 >
  
  Good life advice >
  
  They fear the educated >
  
  Instead of watching in horror, moaning about it on Reddit and saying funny little quips, we need to start countering these idiots. They want to dumb down Americans.
  A dumb down population doesn’t produce anything of value. This group doesn’t want tech and medical advancements. Hit them where it hurts and start saying they want America to fall to the bottom.
  Theres mothers are daughters of Satan. >
  
  These cowardly crazies have always gone after libraries. It's one of the things we always have to keep vigilant about, even though no one uses libraries anymore. >
  
  My local libraries are HELLA busy and I have only been able to check out a book (digital or print) ONCE without being on a waiting list for it bc all copies are checked out. >
  
  It's totally ironic b/c these idiots do not even read. >
  
  Look out,  next they're coming for the interwebs... >
  
  Dads for Libraries, unite and defend our treasure of information! >
  
  They seem like a bunch of snowflakes >
  
  We had Kirk Cameron's PR person try to shoehorn themselves to "do a storytime" a few months ago at my library system when his stupid children's book came out. This was a gross PR stunt attacking any library system that had a drag show storytime at one point in its history. The way the PR request was written, NO library would ever agree to the terms, which was their point. They didn't want to fly from Texas all over the country to do them, they wanted another target in their cynical bullshit game to sell a product. Then they can get a spot on local AM radio or a national conservative show to promote whatever bullshit they are at the time.
  So the second hand response is what I'm worried about; how a more successful conservative personality will rile up the blood of the conservatives & show up with guns. Even without guns, they can protestsor pull strings at local government to remove all funding and destroy an institution. Usually in too many communities, the loudest conservative has friends in the city. >
  
  Now I'm kind of interested in what the terms were to make the libraries not agree. >
  
  so the language in it was asking it to be a library sponsored program, and then it wanted the library to go on record and agree and have the presenter talk about how bad trans people are and how its against god. also something also about talking about how being "woke" is bad.
  first, even taking them at their word, its a kids book. What fucking kid wants to turn on fox news? two, what public library would go on record supporting all this shit directed towards kids? fucking assholes. >
  
  It's like they've never even met a librarian. Jesus. >
  
  So is now the time when we start getting punchy?? >
  
  Never trust anyone who only reads one book - Billy Connolly >
  
  “No longer will Christians be silent,”
  When have they been silent. 
  Keep religion in the church or home >
  
  The left should form a group called dad's for libraries and show up at the same city council meetings and argue the exact opposite. 
  Moms: "these libraries are peddling smut to our children! They're grooming them!"
  Dads: "mayor, what can we do to get these libraries to stock more smut? We demand kids have more porn to rent. None is clearly not enough."
  I think it would be funny. >
  
  No, it’s a more simple question than that.  If I have no problem with the book(s) why do your rights override my rights? >
  
  Can we stop calling these people "conservative" please? That implies they operate on some genuine principle and aren't just misanthropic fascists. >
  
  Christofascists >
  
  Just another bunch of folks who hold the way they want things high above what's best for their kids... which makes them just like everyone else who poisons the environment at the detriment of their own children's lives...
  Human's kinda suck. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 91%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  The Moms for Libraries campaign, which appears to have been launched in 2022 but driven into a new gear last month and during the early days of 2023, is part of that much larger and better-known national group Moms for Liberty, whose financial backers are largely unknown and which is organizing conservative women to influence and/or take over school boards.
  Moms for Libraries, like Moms for Liberty before it, uses the reality of disinvestment in public libraries as an opportunity to argue for the private control of libraries.
  The group's mission is to turn libraries into the kind of battle fronts it can command, from social media to Fox News, as it has before with school boards.
  
  
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  Say what you want about the gop, they are definitely outsmarting the left at the local level.
  I wish the left hand that tenacity and forethought >
  
  Tbf a good amount of them are astroturf groups propped up by dark money. But the left does still refuse to actually organize in any meaningful way to even just pushback. It’s infuriating. >
  
  Right. Local politics is way more important than national politics.
  The left should be trying to get groups to run for local offices and work polling places etc etc >
  
  More like moms for grooming heterosexuals >
  
  FREEDOM put that book down I don't agree with it FREEDOM! >
  
  I’ve never met any of these people. But i hate them. >
  
  Won't be long until the GOP sets up an official ministry of truth, I see. >
  
  It already exists.   It's called the Southern Baptist Convention and in the 2020s, might as well be a branch of the government. >
  
  White women never fail to disappoint! 🙄 >
  
  I have to admit, half way through reading the headline I thought it would end with “is set to remove funding for libraries”. I figured their preference is to cut social spending whenever possible. But I guess poisoning the well is evil enough to get them off. >
  
  These fucks are so stupid. 
  They might succeed in the short run, but it is still only a matter of time until the kids they’re trying to “protect” escape the blinders forced on them by their narrow minded parents, and once that happens, how are you going to keep those kids down on the farm after they’ve had a taste of reality?
  It is the same mistake they’ve been making forever, but they just can’t seem to figure out what is happening. >
  
  These people are awful.  Two years ago I was driving through the Midwest and the conservative talk radio was blasting ads and talking heads pushing their supporters to engage in school board elections.  They had virtual and in person workshops, training materials you could have mailed to you...basically a full on organized movement to take over as many school boards as possible.  This year, same road trip, those same radio stations had talking heads downplaying the organized aspect of this movement, instead calling it a grassroots movement of individuals who were fighting for their own interests.  So disingenuous, but I doubt their regulars could even remember what they were told to believe two weeks prior with how much rage porn they are exposed to.   Probably some more Family Research Council shit to turn undereducated parents into weapons of ignorance to assault the education system. >
  
  Uh...this has been happening. There's a whole sub tracking them:
  r/momsforliberty >
  
  This kinda shit has literally been happening for decades.
  Just one of many, many examples. >
  
  We have to surpass religion if we want to be able to come together as a species and tackle climate change. They probably want the bible and ben shapiro's essays on the shelves. >
  
  Moms for burning books. And they probably don’t even read. >
  
  The REAL groomers. >
  
  I’m so sick of these whackos trying to tell others how to live when most of them don’t live like they pretend to! >
  
  Conservatives have been going after libraries the entire 30+ years I've been alive >
  
  Lol do kids even read books? Don’t they all have tablets ? >
  
  The American Taliban in action. >
  
  Hey you, Library Moms,
  Ha ha charade you are.
  You house proud town mice,
  Ha ha charade you are
  You're trying to keep our feelings off the street.
  You're nearly a real treat,
  All tight lips and cold feet
  And do you feel abused?
  .....! .....! .....! .....!  
  You gotta stem the evil tide,
  And keep it all on the inside.
  Moms you're nearly a treat,
  Moms you're nearly a treat
  But you're really a cry. >
  
  The twilight saga should be banned!!! It is a bad series!!! >
  
  What no way conservative parents don't want their children reading books that aren't the bible? >
  
  I wish they would read the Bible, then ban it for being violent and smutty. >
  
  Humans are the fucking worst. >
  
  I did nazi this coming. >
  
  The students HAVE to be brainwashed .