The government is going to pull over 200 titles from public school libraries in Edmonton, Alberta. Your thoughts? List included in the article. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-school-books-removal-1.7620807
>>24680339>Symposium - Platowtf
>>24680339Why are trumpfags like this? So tiring.
Back in the good old times, the times of my great grandpa, kids were having sex and getting married at 15, and somehow it is "bad" now. Society is sick, treating adolescents like toddlers.
Wow that‘s a lot of shitty books. Godspeed leafland.
>>24680339>Berserk Vol 3Wut. Not the one with the rape horse? But yeah, no worries, none of these irked me. Seems like a bunch of chick lit and things kids should read on their own time, like It. If I recall correctly a fish eats a dudes cock in the first 5 pages.
>>24680345>trumptardsBut this is Canada.Are Canadians so lacking in national identity that they're really just USA-lite?
>>24680339Idiotic horseshit trying to target some lqtbiai2+ books and ending up gutting their catalogue. Kids have triple anal piss scenes on the phone their parents give them at 7 years old. Trying to paint this as THINK OF THE CHILDREN should get them the rope.
>>24680377Did you read the list? It's later in the article. Relatively nonoffensive.
>>24680347Yeah but pornography wasn’t an epidemic at that time. There’s no reason for kids to have free access to smut, though I agree some of the books on the list are a little heavy handed, but that’s government bureaucracy for you. If they want to read this stuff they have free access to public libraries and Amazon.ca, the books aren’t being banned.
>>24680376The Trumptard is international. Trumptards are so retarded that they see no contradiction in being Canadian and a Trumptard
>>24680376Alberta is basically Oklahoma but in Canada. If any Canadian province ever secedes and joins the US it would be them.
>>24680385Some? You fucking idiot. It’s the overwhelming majority. Whatever is left we just assume has anything bad in it because it’s titles nobody reads. Just another fucking moral crusade mirage by the very same parents who can’t make their kids get off phones.
>>24680339Unpopular opinion, and I didn't read the whole list, but I support the principle that books made available to students in school and libraries, especially children, must be overseen and filtered. Not everything is suitable to read and I have seen in Florida cases where people defended vile books dealing with blowjob or orgy aimed at prepubescent children. It is rather sad in my opinion that we must wait for a ministerial order to curate rather than common sense.
>>24680549I'll admit to not knowing 90% of the books in that list, but I have read American Psycho. There is zero reason why someone in elementary school should have access to that book.
Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged, and The Fountainhead being removed entirely rather than placed into the '10-12 only' category are the only genuinely distressing decisions>>24680549>Unpopular opinionIt's the natural and inescapable conclusion of any honest personLibraries don't have infinite physical space and therefore have to choose what to present, promote, and make physically availableFailing to curate properly makes a library less of a repository of ideas, reference material, and appropriate entertainment, and more of an all-noise, no-signal trash pile
>>24680707>all-noise, no-signal trash pileThat has become so many hobbies/activities. Its like the western canon was developed so a student, who wants to be well-read and well-educated, doesnt waste time reading useless books. The same thing has happened in the fitness world. We know what makes a person strong and healthy, but content creators, motivated by clicks and views, have flooded that sphere with useless shit that only confuses people and wastes their time.
>>24680660Do you think there's an epidemic of 4th graders reading American Psycho or something?
>>24680783There might actually be, and only because they saw a meme about the movie
>>24680783>>24680790American psycho isnt the issue, but unilaterally applying the rules to those rainbow faggot books results in some casualties. I read The Stand in the 5th grade and some dean kootz book that begins with a guy talking to a serial killer who garroted a little girl and rubs it between his teeth. Shit happens. But those arent the controversial ones. The "accidentally read a bool giving gold stars to faggots for buttsex" pool of lit for kindergarteners is much larger.
>>24680376>Are Canadians so lacking in national identity that they're really just USA-lite?No, this is just an Alberta moment. Alberta is perennially butthurt at the national government (for a variety of reasons, some more justified than others) and because Liberal Canadians seethe over Trump more than they seethe over conservative political figures from their own country Alberta has been cashing in on that.>>24680549Depends on whether you mean legal children or actual children, though. It's one thing to say that eight year-olds shouldn't have access to instructional manuals for buttsex and another thing to say that 16 year-olds shouldn't have access to BNW or Lolita.
They should only have access to The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Fact!
>>24680339>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-school-books-removal-1.7620807This right here is my new reading list. F+ck these facsist ACAB
>>24680549retard, they are overseen and filtered. None of these libraries have the Turner diaries, Maozedong's little red book or Georg Trakl. The ban is to just get a different and new overseen and filtered selection going. Its cringe culture wars that's it.
Fuck Alberta>lives in albertanot happy
>>24680819Duval Country in Florida banned across its libraries books the Republican board deemed inappropriate, and which were previously freely available. Among them were “This Book is Gay” by transgender author Juno Dawson, marketed as a “bestselling exploration of sexuality and gender for young adults.” Dawson writes in one chapter that “perhaps the most important skill you will master as a gay or bi man is the timeless classic, the handjob.” She continues, “Something they don’t teach you in school, is that in order to be able to cum at all, you or your partner may need to finish off with a handy.” The book also offers graphic descriptions of oral and anal sex, among other adult topics. “Being on bottom makes a dude no less manly than his top partner,” Dawson writes of anal sex. “He is literally taking it like a man.”Also “Gender Queer”, a graphic-novel memoir by Maia Kobabe, a nonbinary, asexual author who uses the pronouns e, em, eir, was the most “banned” young adult book in the country in 2022. Here is a sample “sexting” dialogue from page 170:““I got a new strap-on harness today. I can’t wait to put it on you. I can’t wait to have your cock in my mouth—I’m going to give you the blowjob of your life. Then I want you inside me.” On the facing page, pornographic color sketches depict this scene.Let’s Talk About It: a Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships and Being Human earned starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus, but the book is full of objectionable content. On page 18, the author informs minors that there are innumerable ways to lose one’s virginity, involving many different body parts, and concludes, “Virginity just doesn’t work anymore in today’s world.” A chapter on relationships (pages 34-35) coaches children on swinging, open relationships, and friends-with-benefits arrangements, while a boy in a wheelchair declares that having a friend with benefits “can be fun!”
>>24680339I want some reverse-psychology where we ban only based /lit/ like Plato, C.S. Lewis, etc. -- and leave the gender-goblin graphic novels and YA sloppas.
>>24680855>Also “Gender Queer”, a graphic-novel memoir by Maia Kobabe, a nonbinary, asexual author who uses the pronouns e, em, eir, was the most “banned” young adult book in the country in 2022I thought asexual meant no interest in sex. You’re supposed to be a monk, not write about shit you don’t even like.
>>24680339Well if you want people to be braindead then pulling out books is the best way.
>they don't think high schoolers can handle these bookslmao what a bunch of pussies
>>24680933I swear people forget what they were like when they were young. Children are not stupid. They can handle complex stories, vocabulary, themes, and characters. Children can also be very responsible, when given a responsibility with trust. The thing that annoys me, among other things, about these conservatives, is that they love talking about how tough and independent they were as children, and that modern kids need to grow up.
>>24680985The thing that annoys me, about people like you, is that you entirely ignore the conversation to moralize a retarded point. They arent taking away On Origin of Species, they're pruning books with explicit sex because an entire wave of faggotry decided it was okay to coerce kids into becoming sodomites with rainbows and infantilization. Some other things got caught in the crossfire, but none of the books are even banned, just not part of the library's roster, and as a dude who's favorite book is The Naked Lunch, that's fine. Let them read it on their own time if they want it, no need to hand it to them.
>>24680339Welcome to AI culled reality
The idea that there is even the tiniest sort of equivalency between novels with some (straight) sex scenes and actual ZOG funded rainbow propaganda troonout manuals is one of the myriad ways cohencuckservatives will find to shoot themselves in the foot and why they're destined to be perpetual losers, which they love the same way women love being raped. Sad that Lord Drumpf (PBUH) needs to cater to this bunch of mongrels, I wish he would be better at keeping them in check, but alas
>>24681217The Cons could have done this in such a better way. An intelligent way. Remove the smut while promoting the great dystopian lit. But no, they are born losers. Fair enough.
based keep your gooner shit out of public areas
>>24681217Here we see the critically endangered /lit/schizotard in his natural habitat. /lit/schizos are rare, but almost never retarded, and /lit/tards are common, but almost never schizo. We won't see this level of schizotard for another five hundred years.
>>24680460>The Trumptard is internationalCan’t believe we’re doing internationalism better than the left now
>>24680344The symposium is super gay
I was jerking it to hentai doujins at age 10, what the fuck is this gonna do
>>24680339Our premier Danielle Smith wishes she was American so bad it's embarrassing. She was constantly kissing Trump's ass before he started with the tariffs and people gave her shit for it. Even now she'd sell out the entire province if he asked her to. Why is Ayn Rand on the ban list anyway, the Smith bitch literally has a fucking Liberty Fund tattoo on her arm I figured she'd love Rand, constantly complaining about Trudeau and muh federal overreach then she pulls shit like this while dismantling Alberta Health Services. I hope Americans are happy with the ideological cancer they failed to contain, like it's insane how our recent federal election had nothing to do with policy and everything to do with who supported Trump and who didn't.
>>24680524“Colleen Hoover” makes my point alone, you fucking autistic libertarian chud.
only book on the list that stands out to me is brave new world, and its pretty jarring considering it was literally taught in high school when I was a kid
>>24680524>>24680707>>24680781>>24681054>>24680855Most valuable posts ITT. Blame cultural Marxists and the parents who refuse to parent their children for this ovecorrection (one which isn't even that bad).
>>24681409A lot of people also voted based on who or who wasn't an "incel" despite all the party leaders being married. People in general are deranged. The number of people calling Poilievre an incel is shocking. We need Harper back.
Read this. It's the Edmonton school board who chose to ban these books just to make a point. This is one more reason why public educators are scum.
>>24680339>Atlas Shrugged>Brave New WorldWhat? Why?
>>24682044>as a result of the government's ministerial order
>>24682051The EPSB took a very liberal reading of the policy in order to get people mad at the gov't.
>>24682053The ministerial order probably told them to remove unsuitable books of explicit nature without any list, and they went full ‘akshually, in BNW…’ on purpose.
>>24680460Trump loves gay anal sex and has orgies with Vance ans thiel., this has nothing to do with him.
