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Judd Legum @JuddLegum
There are a lot of people you can pick on but they are picking on school librarians and accusing them of providing children with pornography because some novels have sex scenes — PolitiTweet.org
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Now, they are being threatened with felony prosecution for DOING THEIR JOBS which is to make sure the library as a diverse selection of books that appeal to students from a variety of backgrounds. — PolitiTweet.org
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Think about that. Being a school librarian is a thankless job. No one is getting rich. These are people who are devoted to books and the positive impact they can have on the lives of children. — PolitiTweet.org
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The teacher who is the subject of this story, Vicki Baggett, told me she believes her colleagues "can and will be prosecuted" for felonies under Florida's child pornography laws. This is a common refrain. https://t.co/0bAI79Rbed — PolitiTweet.org
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One thing that I didn't get into in this thread is the IMMENSE PRESSURE that school librarians in Florida are under to remove books that don't match up ideologically with DeSantis and his allies. — PolitiTweet.org
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1. This high school English teacher is trying to ban 150 books from school libraries in Florida I talked to her t… https://t.co/WvCCF3Capp
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"The designs appear to be little more than Mr Trump’s head edited onto images found on the websites of small apparel businesses, stock images or even outfits sold on Amazon and Walmart" — PolitiTweet.org
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Trump is accused of using copyrighted images in his NFT collection https://t.co/DszJQxH6BP — PolitiTweet.org
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38. This actually happened in Escambia. The district refused to consider the challenge. https://t.co/MvXeewighG https://t.co/kG2mUJtQEA — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Ashton @pashton65
@JuddLegum I can’t wait until someone files a complaint to remove the Bible.
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@grepoman Here you go: https://t.co/0bAI79Rbed — PolitiTweet.org
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36. If you are interested in issues of academic freedom and the efforts to ban scores of books from school libraries, subscribe to Popular Information. It's free to sign up. https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org
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34. Last week I covered another Florida man who is threatening to challenge as many as 3600 books in Clay County Florida https://t.co/vYAm0xfz19 — PolitiTweet.org
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33. An official from Escambia County Schools involved in processing the book challenges declined to comment. You can find a full list of the challenged books, almost all by Baggett, HERE: https://t.co/AkhZum9n83 — PolitiTweet.org
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32. It's unclear if Escambia County's approach is legal. In 2002, a federal court in Arkansas ruled that requiring a permission slip to check out Harry Potter books from a school library was unconstitutional. https://t.co/A2IjohBYK4 — PolitiTweet.org
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31. 125 books are currently under restrictions as a result of Baggett's challenges. They will remain in restricted status until the challenge process is complete. Although Baggett began filing challenges in August, thus far, only one book has made it through the process. — PolitiTweet.org
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30. While Baggett's views may not be widely shared her efforts have already restricted dozens of books from Escambia students. Every book that Baggett labels as "pornography" is immediately placed in a "restricted" section of the library. — PolitiTweet.org
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29. Baggett said that the high school where she teaches does not offer a sex ed class. Baggett said that she believed it "is not the school's place" to offer sex ed. She said that people who support sex education in schools "assume that the teacher knows what they are doing" — PolitiTweet.org
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28. Under Baggett's test, how could a school offer sex education? A teacher could not, in a casual hallway conversation, describe to a student the mechanics of oral sex. But that does occur in sexual education classes. — PolitiTweet.org
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27. The Miller test means people like Baggett cannot "take a single image or paragraph and say the book is obscene or harmful to minors." The law requires an evaluation of the book as a whole. Context matters. — PolitiTweet.org
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26. The Miller test defines obscenity as work that appeals to "purient interests," depicts sexual conduct in a "patently offensive way," AND "taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." — PolitiTweet.org
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25. Florida law and Supreme Court precedent affirm that not every book with explicit sexual content is harmful to minors. — PolitiTweet.org
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24. Baggett's test, however, does not comport with Florida or federal law. Florida's law prohibits books in school libraries that both contain "explicit and detailed verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual excitement, or sexual conduct" AND are "harmful to minors." — PolitiTweet.org
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23. According to Baggett, "[i]f I could not walk up to you and start saying to you in a conversational tone" anything written in the book "and know that I'm not going to be in trouble," then that book is pornographic and should be removed from the library. — PolitiTweet.org
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22. Baggett has also challenged dozens of books for high school students, primarily objecting to sexual content. Books Baggett has challenged on this basis include Perks of Being a Wallflower, Beloved, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Water for Elephants. — PolitiTweet.org
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21. These kind of challenges to books, and academic freedom in general, are happening across the country. For more coverage and updates, subscribe to Popular Information. it's free to sign up. https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org
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20. She said she challenged the book because she believed it violated the law. Baggett did say she supports the Parental Rights in Education Act because she believes that "kids need to be kids." — PolitiTweet.org
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19. Baggett explained her objections in more detail: "I think what would happen is a second grader would read this book, and that idea would pop into the second grader's mind… that these are two people of the same sex that love each other." — PolitiTweet.org
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18. In an interview, Baggett said she objected to And Tango Makes Three because it exposes students to "alternate sexual ideologies." She noted that, at one point in the story, the zookeeper says, "these two penguins must be in love." That, she says, is sexual "innuendo." — PolitiTweet.org
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17. In her form challenging the book, Baggett alleged it promoted the "LGBTQ agenda using penguins." On the form, Baggett said she believes the purpose of the book is "indoctrination." https://t.co/tRmYsak5MI — PolitiTweet.org
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16. Among the books challenged by Baggett is And Tango Makes Three. The book is the true story of two male penguins, Roy and Silo, who lived in the Central Park Zoo. The pair build a nest together, and — after the zookeeper provides them w/an egg — raise an adopted child, Tango https://t.co/bNz4HFo7E6 — PolitiTweet.org
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15. Baggett's challenges are not limited to books she believes handle racial issues inappropriately. She has also challenged numerous books for allegedly violating the Parental Rights in Education Act, also known as the "Don't Say Gay" law. — PolitiTweet.org
