If girls are allowed to read, then they might be able to figure out how terribly they’re treated. We obviously can’t have that.
So the under 18 mother who was forced to carry a child can’t take that child to a library or even go herself.
Yep, that tracks.
And can’t go to the library.
This is by design.
As a rabblerouser above 18, if I browse the Restricted Stacks and accidentally forget them in the YA stacks, how much shit would those librarians be put through?
Why bother with that? I say go full Robin Hood, steal the restricted books and give them away to the youth. Or, if you’ve got the resources, run a black market library. It would be kinda like a speakeasy, with a password and a doorman and shit. Call it a “readeasy”? Since you’re not supposed to talk in a library and all that.
I’d say, whatever you do, it has to be obvious that the librarians are innocent. So I’d say ‘accidentally’ forgetting the stacks in the wrong section is out.
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Depends on whether you’ve got LibsOfTikTok on the case.
Maybe the whole library gets defunded, idk.
They’re not playing the game in good faith. Please don’t help the bad people shut down libraries.
typical america moment
you get ID’d at the library.
Books? We must protect the children!
Guns? Oh, no take the children before my guns!
Land of the free indeed.
This post is pretty out of context. https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/04/10/idaho-libraries-must-move-materials-deemed-harmful-to-children-or-face-lawsuits-under-new-law/
Some libraries are doing things like this as a form of protest. The law doesn’t require such a stringent process as this, but that’s irrelevant. What’s relevant is the law is infringing on freedom of speech by regulating libraries’ content.
I don’t see how the law doesn’t require libraries to go 18+ to be free of liability.
The language in this law is extremely broad. If anyone finds anything that they find objectionable in the children’s section, they can sue the librarians.
There’s literally no way to protect yourself against this but to bar all children from the library, unless they have parental supervision. This ensures that the parent remains liable since they have become an obligated chaperone while inside the library.
There’s no way to actually remove all the “offensive” content from the children’s section, because there’s no way to actually know what books that the extremists this law was created to enable will object to next.
That it has the added effect of humiliating the Republicans who passed it by showing what it logically leads to, and angering parents who can no longer drop their kids off at the library, may be helpful in opposing this, but it looks like it’s just the predictable result of short-sighted reactionary lawmaking.
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I’m sure the very people who put out these laws are going to be extremely bothered by libraries preventing kids from accessing cheap culture and education
True enough, but I think their aim is at citizens moreso than politicians. I would wager a lot of average folks probably weren’t even aware of the law being passed, stuff like this brings it more attention. Is it effective? No idea, I don’t live in Idaho. I wouldn’t be surprised it isn’t that effective, given how conservative most of Idaho is. But, I can respect libraries from at least trying to do something about it.
I don’t think the people who vote for this actually care. They’ve been told that every other book in them libruhries have them gay sex things, and that’s enough for them to cheer for it.
This is the stupidest timeline.
The fact that the stupidity is intentional and the desired result is the rub. Stupid, uneducated people are less likely to think critically and more likely to accept and support whatever bullshit
the political party behind all this shitRepublicans spew out.
All part of the plan. The less educated the children are, the easier they can be exploited.
If I was a librarian, I wouldn’t enforce this stupid bullshit.
as a former public librarian, i can tell you there are absolutely boomer losers with nothing to do who will sit there and make sure someone’s enforcing it. so fucking glad i work at an academic library now and no one can say shit when i put the gayest books in existence on display
These lunatics are working on making prison time the punishment for that, so good luck.
I’m willing to be arrested for breaking stupid laws that shouldn’t exist.
I’d be surprised if any do. I haven’t heard of a single librarian that’s been in favor of these shenanigans anywhere.
I wonder what the penalty for that is.
This is fucking grim.
We should just landscape over the entire middle with forests and solar panels. Not Louisiana, you can stay but as a warning to everyone between you and New Mexico and Colorado.
Why do you want Louisiana to stay?
Hard to plant trees in the ocean
Mangroves are the trees of choice in the ocean.
Huh, good point.
Screw Louisiana then, it becomes a mangrove forest. Harder to do, but the ocean has unpaved the way at least.
New Orleans is a national treasure and incredibly left politically. I’m not saying they don’t have gang and gun violence problems, they do, but I feel more free in that city than anywhere else in the US.
Yeah but the problem is New Orleans is inside Louis-
Wait did you say more free than anywhere else in the USA?..
I’ve been to a large amount of states. I don’t think you’ve traveled much.
Been all over the States. I currently work anywhere from Omaha to Brooklyn. I’ve done a decent bit of travel outside the country as well but only many times to Mexico and a few times around other countries in Central America.
Yeah I’m talking about the French Quarter and to a lesser extent the Garden District and downtown. I haven’t gone to Bourbon Street the last three trips, I don’t care for it. Helpful locals will tell you if you’re about to walk somewhere you’re not wanted. Other than that you basically never see a cop and you can chill with anarchic punks that don’t judge. Last time I was there I was just chilling on the street and a kid walked up and pretty much shoved a large psylocibin chocolate bar in my mouth. Couldn’t imagine that anywhere else.
Free as in beer, I think. A phrase you never hear in the French Quarter is “Last Call!”
Hey MN is cool.
Voting Blue is the way; Kicking those MAGA Fascists and their Church Bullies out of politics will help lessen their power. I never want to see a sign like this in my own public library! Attacking access to knowledge is a bold move, if it succeeds, I will be deeply saddened (it has a high chance in my area due to the brainwashed MAGA Fascists).
I posted this on my FB feed. One lady argued that it was down to parental rights to control what their kids consumed. I said just stay out of the public library and public schools, but she said that was not a “good faith” argument.
The irony is using “good faith” to impose their beliefs onto others was lost on her.
Yeah. Keep them kids out of the library. They should be at home on the internet where they will only be exposed to wholesome content.
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Then when you need heart surgery, complain that your doctor is from another country.
The talibangeicals are winning.
