Florida Dems Try to Use Ron DeSantis’ Book Ban on His Own Book

[onthedarkside]

 

Months since it took effect, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature law to censor books in Florida schools has found an unintended target: his own book.

 

In a clever bit of trolling, Florida Democrats are subjecting DeSantis’ new tome—“The Courage To Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival”—to the rules that he and GOP lawmakers established to weed out books with allegedly inappropriate content on race, sexuality, and gender from school libraries.

 

Fentrice Driskell, the minority leader in the Florida House, is leading an effort across 50 counties to see if any of them might review or ban DeSantis’ book based on his law’s vague and unwieldy criteria.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-democrats-try-to-use-florida-gov-ron-desantis-school-book-ban-on-his-own-book-courage-to-be-free

 

[SunnyinBangrak]

4 minutes ago, onthedarkside said:

In a clever bit of trolling, Florida Democrats are subjecting DeSantis’ new tome—“The Courage To Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival”—to the rules that he and GOP lawmakers established to weed out books with allegedly inappropriate content on race, sexuality, and gender from school libraries.

so Ron's book was promoting felching and chopping things off for 10 year olds schoolkids too? I'm guessing not, it's just the left playing silly games. DeSantis deserves massive kudos for keeping vulnerable children out of harm from predators. 

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4 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

so Ron's book was promoting felching and chopping things off for 10 year olds schoolkids too? I'm guessing not, it's just the left playing silly games. DeSantis deserves massive kudos for keeping vulnerable children out of harm from predators. 

You clearly are unfamiliar with the bill that was passed in Florida. You could remedy that by actually reading the article. Or continue to demonstrate your lack of knowledge.

 

Can you please share with us which books located in school libraries in Florida were "promoting felching and chopping things off for 10 year olds schoolkids too?"

 

As per usual, you've got nothing.

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[Tug]

4 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

so Ron's book was promoting felching and chopping things off for 10 year olds schoolkids too? I'm guessing not, it's just the left playing silly games. DeSantis deserves massive kudos for keeping vulnerable children out of harm from predators. 

Wow dude ……….and no Ronnie is promoting ignorance all for political points no more than that he deserves censure then to be voted out and forgotten 

[RichardColeman]

Actually I fully support DeSantis and his book ban. If you listen to some of the parents of kids reading from them they are clearly obscene materials.

 

That said , I really have never under stood exactly why ALL books are not age rated - if movies are, then books should be too. Some of the fiction books I have read have been extremely graphic, yet a 6 year old can just walk in a shop and buy it

 

 

[ozimoron]

When I was at school at age 13 I took "The Godfather" to school and showed all the kids a graphic description of sex where he pushed a woman against a wall and forced his "pole of muscle" into her. I guess DeSantis should ban that book too.

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33 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Actually I fully support DeSantis and his book ban. If you listen to some of the parents of kids reading from them they are clearly obscene materials.

 

That said , I really have never under stood exactly why ALL books are not age rated - if movies are, then books should be too. Some of the fiction books I have read have been extremely graphic, yet a 6 year old can just walk in a shop and buy it

 

 

Please share with us those readings and the names of the books and the school libraries they were taken from. I'm sure you wouldn't make such a claim without being able to provide links.

"Any alleged factual claims must be supported by a valid link to an approved credible source."

Moreover what you and your fellow book banners don't seem to understand is that the law in question doesn't just refer to sexual conduct but any top that is potentiall divisive. Like the book about Rosa Parks which a parent objected to.

[candide]

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Actually I fully support DeSantis and his book ban. If you listen to some of the parents of kids reading from them they are clearly obscene materials.

 

That said , I really have never under stood exactly why ALL books are not age rated - if movies are, then books should be too. Some of the fiction books I have read have been extremely graphic, yet a 6 year old can just walk in a shop and buy it

 

 

Booksb

 are peanuts compared to what kids can access on the internet.

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[Paradise Pete]

14 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

promoting felching and chopping things off for 10 year olds schoolkids too?

What other things do you believe?

[ballpoint]

There's one book in particular which should definitely be banned for its lascivious content under these laws.  Just two quotes from it out of many that could have been chosen:

 

“You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.”

 

"If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity."

 

The first quote comes from Ezekiel 16:17, the second from Deuteronomy 25:11-12.  The book is, of course, the bible. 

[Anant72]

8 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Actually I fully support DeSantis and his book ban. If you listen to some of the parents of kids reading from them they are clearly obscene materials.

 

That said , I really have never under stood exactly why ALL books are not age rated - if movies are, then books should be too. Some of the fiction books I have read have been extremely graphic, yet a 6 year old can just walk in a shop and buy it

 

 

Yes, let’s have a public auto-da-fé with banned books in America. Also, let’s create an inquisition to torture teachers who dare teach as they see fit. Let’s go back to obscurantism! Hurrah for mind control! We need a Big Brother! May Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 become reality!

[pomchop]

If you want to ban books then start with a ban the biggest brainwashing book ever....the Bible.  Full of sex crime lies and fairy tales.

 

Of course very few have ever actually read the entire book but cherry pick portions that support whatever view they decide fits their narrative or definition of good/evil.

 

Actually the bible does have some good advice about how to treat and interact with your fellow man.....especially the "least among us"  unfortunately very few so called christians follow that advice.

 

[heybruce]

12 hours ago, placeholder said:

Please share with us those readings and the names of the books and the school libraries they were taken from. I'm sure you wouldn't make such a claim without being able to provide links.

"Any alleged factual claims must be supported by a valid link to an approved credible source."

Moreover what you and your fellow book banners don't seem to understand is that the law in question doesn't just refer to sexual conduct but any top that is potentiall divisive. Like the book about Rosa Parks which a parent objected to.

As you know, RichardColeman won't back up his claims with referenced sources.  He never does.

[Dave0206]

As a 6 year old child I doubt there are many on the waiting list at the library to get 50 shades of grey.

To be honest as any parent will testify it is very hard to get a child to read full stop.

I remember as a youngster someone would bring to school there fathers porn magazines I don't remember reading ???? 

As was mentioned much worse can be accessed via the Internet please don't say parents can control there own kids access what about other classmates ????. 

Most can not even stop them shooting each other 

[Chomper Higgot]

10 hours ago, candide said:

Booksb

 are peanuts compared to what kids can access on the internet.

And do access.

 

[blazes]

15 hours ago, ballpoint said:

There's one book in particular which should definitely be banned for its lascivious content under these laws.  Just two quotes from it out of many that could have been chosen:

 

“You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.”

 

"If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity."

 

The first quote comes from Ezekiel 16:17, the second from Deuteronomy 25:11-12.  The book is, of course, the bible. 

Ah, but it's not the King James version....

[ozimoron]

What's wrong with these people?

 

A right-wing group in Florida got a book about Anne Frank removed from school libraries under a new policy approved by Republican legislators.

 

The Indian River County chapter of Moms for Liberty, a conservative nonprofit group that questions school lessons on racism and other topics they deem controversial, complained about the graphic novel, “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation," and got the book pulled from library shelves,

 

https://www.rawstory.com/moms-for-liberty-florida/

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19 hours ago, blazes said:

Ah, but it's not the King James version....

You'll find in the KIng James Bible this passage about Lot and his daughters:

 

 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 19&version=KJV