Freedom by TurtureTucker in politics

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Is it ok for any books to be placed in schools?

It's a good question, to which I think the general answer is to leave library decisions up to the well-educated school librarian, and teaching up to a well-educated teacher. This is not a form of authoritarianism, but a way of expecting these poorly paid people to get on with their jobs. The banning of books has always been a politicized move, by those who want to manipulate the schools. Many of these people are pushed by their churches or political interests. Parents can discuss books with their kids. Banning books also draws attention to them, as if they are dangerous. Kids love that and will easily get access to these banned books, especially because most resources are online. (They see much worse online.) The history of banned books is informative of the ridiculous religious and political double standards for banning books. We're discussing this now only because banning books has become a political motivation by the GOP. To explicitly answer your question: I think that almost any book can be in a school, unless it promotes torture or unjustified murder (eg. to allow for the problem of 'justified warfare').

Freedom by TurtureTucker in politics

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Whatever your preferences, young voters and women who normally did not vote are now very concerned for their rights in many states. SCOTUS and the GOP are working for a minority (and Big Corp) who promote extreme positions that 91% of the US do not want. (Previous surveys have shown that 91% do not agree with SCOTUS's overturn of RvW.)

Regarding books in schools, I'd argue they aren't so dangerous, and as you say, parents can work with their children on what they read. Politicizing education has been one of the GOP efforts in the past 40 years to ruin the educational options for the 99%. One would think that anyone who is pro-life will want the best educational system in the world, rather than one of the worst.

A CIA agent discloses that 70-80% of US war news were planted stories. by [deleted] in history

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It's not possible for one agency to 'plant' that many 'war stories'. This guy is obviously lying. Of course there are professionals in the Pentagon who provide information for military news, but that's not to say that 80% of that informaiton is 'planted'. File this dumbass claim in the same folder as - 'my grandpa has a CIA friend who told him that QAnon is right'!

What I ordered vs. what I got by [deleted] in politics

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Ha! At first I typed, KillCarlson.

What I ordered vs. what I got by [deleted] in politics

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Paid for with $2 billion in Saudi money (for selling them secrets) and $800 million in Chinese government money (real estate) and $500 million in a free US taxpayer loan (real estate).