Yep. Their kids can't become liberals if they keep them away from information. They are trying to make a Texas only internet where the state controls what you see. It's Fing scary to live in TX.
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I remember being in HS and having a 'Banned Books Week' where we were encouraged to read books banned in the past and later unbanned or from places where they were banned. It's always good to expand your mind, especially in ways that challenge your own perceptions.
Completely agree. I think republicans are over compensating in the war against Critical Theory, which is the philosophy that informs the derivatives we hear about everyday. It's designed to dismantle institutions in a society and culture, and it works very well. Taking back schools and their libraries is good - but the public library is for all of us, not just or even for, children. Parents can decide if their child should even be in a public library - so there's no argument there for it, either.
As a child in the 80's our teachers always told us that banning books was the beginning of the end of democracy. This is my generation doing this. Please if you live in a state that is banning books vote, speak up. We can't afford to let this become the norm.
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Don't worry, she'll go out into the world and become rich trading her real life skills for money. Oh, wait, she's a progressive. She has no real skills. If she can't mooch off of tax payers, she'll starve to death. RIP Progressive librarian.
They are like teenagers throwing a tantrum. Can't have their own way so they are going to break things instead. _Edit:_ There is a newer update on this story, and they voted to keep the libraries open. So it's like a teen _threatening_ to break things, but not following through. Still a tantrum.
I have worked and volunteered in public and school libraries since I was in elementary school. I never thought I would live to see the day that libraries and books get banned over their contents. For shame on our government and the people supporting this!
I suspect we'll be having this so called 'culture war' for the next 20 years... it's really people fighting against the shifting demographics in this country.
@@daneenmurf1043 it did happen. I grew up in Kansas, and my parents told me about it, once, as we drove past that former pool location. My town must have been without a public swimming pool for about 20 years. Finally a new one was built, that was open to everyone, and I learned to swim there.
These parents can take a flying leap. They are taking away books that other people want to read. Let them keep their kids out of public libraries and schools if they want to, but how dare they tell everyone else what they can or cannot read!?!
@@leonlowenstadter9223you don’t need to give your kids a library card, kids can sign up for their own…. my 12yo mind was blown at the thought of all that power 😅 didn’t need a parent signature or anything
If the parent doesn't want their kid to check out the book, then they should be there every time to make sure their kid doesnt, that's called parenting, that does not give anyone the right to do a blanket ban on books.
Yes?? Why wouldn’t you? It’s an important historical book that many people still use today to analyze Hitler and his ideology. The book isn’t evil, it’s just a book. It’s not going to turn children into genocidal fascists. Also, no one is putting controversial historical prints in the children’s section.
@@Reaper-cm4jr I'm pretty sure this isn't a school library, though? You do realize that adults also go to the library, right? As far as I'm concerned, public libraries should be able to have that kind of book(or basically any, for that matter), provided that they are in a special area that's not accessible to kids without express parental consent.
@@VampguyN85 True, but better such parents confine their helicopter parenting and micromanaging to their own children, rather than inflict it on everyone else.
Closing down an entire library system because you don’t like the books inside is just about the most ignorant thing to do. Stupidity runs rampant in Texas 🤦🏽♂️
Yes it does and comes east to Florida. It's simple....if you don't like certain books, DON'T READ THEM! If you don't want your kids reading certain books don't allow them to check them out. It's ridiculous to take the books away from everyone else who uses the public library. Stupidity is certainly rampart.
I’d love to see the stats on how many of these “outraged“ parents even have a public library card. If their kids have a hunger for knowledge good on them because they certainly didn’t learn it from these parents.
I'm not a parent. I'm not from TX. I'm from MO and 60. I have a library card and I use it. :) Can't imagine otherwise. It is a great place to escape to.
Do you have a library card? I've had one since I was 6 yrs. old, and a little old lady up the street paid me a quarter to take her books back to the library and pick up her new ones every week. I dearly love libraries and have since I was big enough to walk to one. An advantage of living in a small town without crime, back in the very early sixties!
Libraries are not just vital repositories of public reading, they are safe havens for studying and writing academic work. Basically by banning Libraries they are showing in so many ways that they are anti education. I suppose it makes sense since schools, except in the rich neighborhoods, have to work for less nowadays.
I'd guess that most city-type libraries really aren't for "education" per se, though. I know that some of the most popular check-outs in the one I worked in were romance novels and pop novels in general. There WERE some standard reference books and non-fiction, but if you wanted anything serious you had to go to a college library or do inter-library loan. (This was just as the internet was getting started.) Honestly, some non-fiction books aren't cutting edge by the time it takes to get them published, and serious research books can be very, very expensive. Even when I was working in a library, the future of the brick-and-mortar library was uncertain.
These parents want to parent other kids but not parent their own. If you don't want your kid doing or reading something, that's something you should do with your child- not someone else's. Just cause they want to keep their kids sheltered and in the dark so they grow up mindless and obedient, doesn't mean others want their kids to be the same.
Are you expecting parents to actually parent? That would take effort and time away from Qanon and insane Facebook memes. Then how would they know what is going on in the schools and libraries? Ha!
My late mother was an avid reader, read all kinds of books. My father with an 8th grade education loved books. My parents let us read what ever books we wanted to and we turned out just fine and more tolerant of the world. As children we would spend time in the library all summer long. Mom would rather have us reading instead of us running around getting into trouble.
The amount of kids that went out of their way to read that stuff in the library in the first place was nonexistent, the fact that parents are mad that their child even has the choice to checkout a book like that is mind numbing to me.
I once read that it is the parents' responsibility to keep their child away from those books. Note that I said "their child" not all children. Books should not be banned from libraries because that would be keeping the books away from all children.
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Maybe a bit of both. There’s no reason to ban books just because you feel uncomfortable reading them. If anything, books that show the harsh truth behind our history and current society can open up your eyes more than reading something that sanitizes everything
In a heat wave, libraries often become a cooling center for those who don't have central air conditioning at home. Sometimes this can mean the difference between life-and-death.
What's hilarious about this situation is that I've been saying for years that if public libraries were proposed today, the Conservatives would vote them down because they're "Socialism". And Conservative friends told me "no way, that's just nitpicking and being a hater". Here we are. You know what comes next? Post office (they've been trying for decades), public access roads (all toll baby!), and public parks. It's disturbing that Capitalists created all these things in the 19th and 20th centuries and now Capitalists are tearing them down. Carnegie himself was a free market capitalist. It's weird to watch his grandsons (in spirit) wreck his legacy.
I remember when the public library system was considered an achievement of our society. I can't believe how much our society has degraded in my short lifetime. It cant even be called regression at this point because at no point in American history have we ever been this negligent about our rights and privileges. It's crossed into full blown willfull sabotage.
Well, Roe V Wade was overturned about a year ago right? Maybe if the same court that accomplished that feat can get the First Amendment overturned we could really see the libraries improved!!
@@Zurround There is no right to abortion in the US Constitution. There is a 1st Amendment, but that means YOU have the right to read what you want, but the government isn't mandated to give it to you or make it available at the public library.
@@willmont8258public libraries are government-funded, so aren't allowed to censor Constitutionally protected free speech. Written works are covered under 1A.
@@joshfromga9017 That is not true. Your comment shows you don't understand what you are talking about. Just because something is funded publicly doesn't mean every book must be carried or made available by public libraries. The 1st Amendment means the government can't ban it from being read or owned by people, but not that every library must have it. That would be impossible, so each library might decide which books to buy and carry. So is that censorship because each library doesn't have every book? No. The 1st has nothing to do with which books a library has or doesn't have, as long as people are free to get the book on their own. If the government said no citizen could have that book, then the 1st would be violated.
If these adults are concerned about what book their child is checking out, the adult should accompany the child to the library. These parents don't have the right to tell other people's kids what they can read.
Conservatives: Other countries like China are taking our jobs! We are falling behind! Also conservatives: Let’s get rid of public libraries because they have a few books we don’t like.
Also conservatives: let's make sure our kids are ignorant and illiterate so they won't be able to get a job at McDonald's. Let's make sure we have the WORST education system in the developed world, so EVERY country outperforms us.
Imagine if this were a restaurant. You have a wide assortment of foods and meals to choose from. No one is forcing you to order what you don’t like. You don’t have the right to tell costumers what they can and cannot eat. You don’t shut down the restaurant just because you hate broccoli.
This is beyond ridiculous. So basically they would rather be completely ignorant and allow their children to grow up completely ignorant, than to learn about topics that make them feel uncomfortable or face truths they don't want to face. They are setting their children up for failure in life because the rest of the world lives in reality and not some edited never land.
The insidious thing is that they don't just want it for their kids, they want to force their ignorance, fear, and stupidity down our kids throats as well.
@@NickTx823 Nope. Don't like the book then don't check it out. Worried your child will read something then do your job as a parent and PARENT! You don't get to make decisions for everyone else when it comes to books.
@@NickTx823 Sure, all they have to do is show a valid/current library card that was used in the last year and be able to fill out a questionnaire about which books they want banned and the specific content they find offensive. If they can't do that, then they don't actually care about the book or it's contents. They just want to ride the high of being part of the "in crowd" waving torches and pitchforks.
@@kevinvelasco6167 2 things. 1. it should be up to the community as it's a community library and 2. are those books really that groundbreaking that anyone will be less educated by not having those books in a public library? You'd rather sue to have such silly books in a public library rather than just buying them yourself? (Not you specifically, you generally speaking) some communities would rather not deal with nonsense. I don't see anyone outraged that every public library doesn't carry every book in existence.
Here's the thing: this is a library. You want to read a book? Do it. You don't want to read a book? You don't have to. The US thrives if and only if we foster free markets, including thought.
I'm in my thirties and went to a an all girl catholic school. I remember the school telling us we weren't allowed to read certain books even though they were purchased with our own or parents money. They thought Harry Potter was demonic, they were against the girls reading a romance novel by a certain author and a lot of science fiction was evil. All it did was make girls especially those who didn't read to go out and find those books. It was the first time I saw so many reading beside us nerds. The romance novel they forbid us wasn't even on our radar until THEY mentioned it. My friend got in big trouble and had to have a parent teacher conference for being caught with one of my sci-fi books (she didn't snitch on me and didn't tell me until after it was all over) It was so sad but we still joke about it to this day. Honestly it was one of my favorite books and reading was my escape from the real world and home problems.
@@Aeroldoth3 Libraries are used for a lot. Refuge for anyone looking to escape bad weather conditions if they are homeless, places to learn, places to share and socialize, places to host meetings for many different groups, places to research, access the internet, keep kids safe and off the streets...and many even help people with emergencies like domestic abuse, child abuse or neglect, helping scared anxious or unsafe people make important calls... the list goes on. libraries are the ultimate ideal of social collaboration and free/easy access to information. and thats exactly what republicans fear. they can't win if the people are informed and able to reach each other.
@don s What do you mean "business materials"? Do you mean like archived newspapers and data, or something more? I've never heard of this so I'm wondering how libraries are helping businesses.
@@Aeroldoth3 can't speak for economic topics, but as a historian I've spent a lot of time in library archives going through stuff of which there is only one accessible copy. That is my personal need for a library
My mind is blown..... in the 70s I read almost every book in our private school library and 2 local public library by the end of 9th grade. The unread read ones were the college text book type or had no interest in. If it was paperback I was reading it, even if i didn't understand what I was reading. My librarians worked hard to broaden my interest but also prepare me for high school and college level reading and comprehension. Closing a public library is a setback for so many children. How about parents parent amd go with their children if they want to moderate book selections. Even crazier, heaven help the kid who shares a book one parent doesn't approve of. As a book lover this just hurts my heart.
This is a shame, scandal, embarrassment. and an intellectual atrocity for our society. My grandmother was a part time librarian, I grew up going to libraries from the time of pre-school all through my childhood. These places were a lifeline, sanctuary, and site of mental exploration where I could freely pick up different books, records, magazines, and allow my mind to absorb a rainbow of ideas. I am a better person for having had that experience. These present fools are dooming their kids and other people's kids to a mental wasteland if they continue to do this stupidity in the name of their culture wars which is just a cover for wielding power.
"The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men." Franklin D. Roosevelt
Except culutural reprogramming has happened successfully over history. At least for a while. It worked for Hitler until the end of the war, and China hasn't caught up and overcome it's massive setback thanks to Chairman Mao. People do this day still have ptsd over talking about Mao openly and are too afraid to talk openly about the current government like with their toxic masculinity wars for example.
Plenty of idiots in texas raising their kids to be ignorant idiots as well. Unless you actively encourage the freedom of learning then idiots will just keep on breeding. This gets to the point when they outnumber the opposition at the polls and get to dictate the cultural changes.
@@VampguyN85 Wow, you triggered these guys pretty good with a simple recitation of confirmable information. You should count that as a tactical success.
This is just how Small and how Petty these people are.... they would shut down an entire library system(likely never to open again) just to keep a few books out of the hands of others.
I think some of these parents would, if given the option, choose to rule over their children their entire lives, even from beyond the grave. Most will be profoundly disappointed as soon as their children have contact with the real world and reject the lies and omissions that underpin their "values".
This reminds me of the stories of North Korea. The citizens are shielded and brainwashed, but if any of them actually find out what life is like outside of North Korea, they try to escape.
This reminds me of the mid-20th century, when the federal government required southern states to integrate pools, swimming holes etc. Rather than integrate, the cities and towns just closed these resources to everyone. Guess we know where these book banners got their tactics.
If the parents are so concerned about what their children are reading they should be reading the books with them and have formative discussions. Unfortunately, this process takes too much time, not to mention too much involvement with one's own children!
when I was a little girl the bookmobile would come once a week and I loved them almost as much as the ice cream truck. Books are a gift. THEY ARE CHOOSING IGNORANCE
@Johny Ringo lol. Yes. Why is this difficult to understand? Not every book in any library is appropriate for every child. That's just common sense. If you're incapable of raising your kid without ruining public libraries and schools for everyone else, you shouldn't have had them. Learn to be a parent instead of pushing your beliefs on everyone else. Grow up.
@Johny Ringo lol. "How to be too stupid to learn in just one step" the only book a republican won't censor. I understand the situation just fine. There's a bunch of crybabies that want to control what others can and can't do, whining about nothing they understand anything about, in a senseless attack on some of the best government institutions we have. Why? Even you don't know why. Morals? Hardly. You just want control.
@johnyringo6442As a parent, it is YOUR responsibility to monitor your child. But you do NOT have a right to dictate to the entire country what they can and cannot read based on YOUR personal beliefs. If you don't want your child reading certain books, don't let them. Accompany them to the library yourself and monitor your own child. But leave everyone else alone and let them live their lives in peace.
Not only are the libraries closing down, so too is the ability of Americans to think and discern for themselves. The extremes of both the far right and far left is a form of mass psychosis.
Close LIBRARIES?!! Bro, most people get their reading materials OFF THEIR PHONES (tablets, kindle etc)! Are we going to ban those too next?! We really are dumbing down as a society yo.
If you keep them stupid they will be easy to rule over. Can’t have them learning anything that doesn’t line up with our view of how things were or are. Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.
To all the librarians standing strong for our freedom to read - thank you, we see you, there's no profession I trust more in the US than a public librarian.
Book banning is a dereliction of parenting. My father was a minister and he was very much against book banning. He was also very much for talking to his children and making sure we had a comfortable understanding of things that we experienced outside our home.
@@willmont8258 Even if the library carried Hustler Magazine (or ANY of the books you want banned), no one is forcing you or your children to read them.
@@cleopatracatra2097 You can get that book on your own, so it is not banned. And the people of a community have a right to decide which books their library should buy and carry. You don't get to demand any book you want from the library.
The solution to this problem is SUPER SIMPLE. The federal government has strict rules when it comes to education and funding. If Texas closes the libraries, then just cut ALL FEDERAL FUNDING to the state and give them what they claim to want; their own tiny little 3rd world country to destroy any way they wish. We can make them get a visa to travel out of the (literal) "Lone-Star-State" into the Free States of America. p.s. That goes for you too Florida, and any other state that wishes to leave
Please don't propagate this - red states have massive, suppressed blue communities that should not have to suffer. At the very least we need ways to get them out if they need to flee
It's one thing to keep these books out of elementary schools (which I agree with) but just shutting down your whole county's libraries? Kids can't really avoid school and teachers can push things on their students when they think nobody's watching... but the public libraries aren't just for kids and they're a choice. Nobody HAS to participate in a public library system. If anything, that's where books of this nature belong: on a shelf, publicly accessible for everyone who wants to read them and out of the way of everyone who doesn't. They're not plastering these books all over billboards or websites, they're not requiring children read them, they're just checking them out and putting them back on the shelf when they're done. Now, if this was a privately owned library of some sort or a bookstore, we'd have a different discussion; this however is about PUBLIC libraries, paid for by taxpayers. If they catch wind of this and say "no," then that's the end of it.
the fact they are even holding a county meeting on whether to close a public library because of this is asinine. The leaders and the people that vote for this is ridiculously close minded. 🤦♂
People of Llano County -Fight back! Surrounding communities- show up to show your support! Banning books is wrong! Bless that local woman librarian’s heart.💕🌼
This is insane!! Put the books back and know that they have to leave it up to the parents to check out books that they want or don't want their kids to read.
@@willmont8258 You're nuts. In a free society, you're free NOT to read whatever you want. Which, apparently, in your case is quite a bit. And precisely who is this "we" you speak of? You and your three member "Purity Committee"? With maybe some members of the DAR as Guest Speakers? I'll bet you've been a thorn in everyone's side since you could toddle. Look up the definition of the word CRANK in the dictionary. Then apply it to yourself.
.... Nooooo! I live in Texmenistan, as I call it. It's not really a Red state, it should be Purple, but all the Gerrymandering has corrupted it, with Nationalism and Ignorant Trumpism... Plus it has the 10th largest Economy, if it was compared to a G20 country 🤨 Gotta fix the problems in Texas, to make it great again.
I live in Texas. They already did. Most of the people around here don't know their there from their they're. Most of our legislation is written in crayon.
I mean ... that's where things are headed. Conservatives hate schools. They probably think "ALL YOU NEED TO LEARN IS HOW TO PRAY AND HOW TO WORK A TRADE!" or something.
Isn't that a contempt of court for that county not to comply with federal judge's orders to restore the books back as it is in violation of the US constitution.
Technically speaking, they’ll still be complying as they will return the books to the library. Coincidentally, they’ll cut the power and lock the building for good 3 minutes later.
If *I* don't want to read it, then NO ONE can read it!! Basically replace "read" for any other word, e.g., love, marry, abort, behave different from expected gender norms, etc.
people in texas all worked up about a library that they likely haven't stepped foot into in more than a decade. I love how the right wing is all worked up about groomers, but they never seem to have problems taking their kids to church where countless children have been abused or molested over the years.
@@kathleenkirchoff9223 that's exactly what a groomer would write. Churches should all be closed down for good. Super easy to flip their own crap against them, I'm really not sure why this isn't happening everyday in these conversations.
I am never living in Texas... or any state that does this... Before I had Kindle, I had to rely on my school and city library. If I finished the book, I would have to wait soo long for my mom to take me back for another. My second dream career is to be a librarian and I want to expand kids imaginations. Literally putting a chokehold on them and their creative minds.
Libraries are a lot more than books; it is a safe place to meet to study, they have computers connected to internet, printers, news papers, movie videos, and magazines.. I gone in an was able to look up how to make up wills, and legal forms for the price of printing, that the government would charge a lot more for, if you know exactly what you are looking for. I was able to do research on all kind of repairs, find consumer reports magazines, and many other things. My wife was able to look up some family history in the geology section. I have spent many hours in a library and never once has someone who worked there pushed any agenda on me, and had been nothing but helpful from finding information to inter-library loans if they do not have what I wanted. They have too much to offer to just have some one just throw away the whole system of service to everyone.
I hope they don't go after book stores next. This is extremely sad. Ive noticed how Republicans say someone is "grooming kids" when they're actually just giving kids information and access to knowledge...
It's grooming, alright. Not just the type they want. They don't want intellectually curious citizens, nor ones capable of critical thinking, historical awareness, sense of self nor agency. They want a people composed of unthinking drones that will accept every and anything, will never question the status quo, and will be happy to fight amongst themselves for whatever crumbs the top elites, give them.
the goal is to make grooming easier to get away with by muddying the water, associating reprehensible behavior exclusively with their political enemies and putting political allies above question, and making sure children are given as little information as possible about their own bodies, minds, and place in society to keep them vulnerable and easy to control.
This has nothing to do with books, and everything to do with control over others.
Like when the Left wants to take people guns?
Yep. Their kids can't become liberals if they keep them away from information. They are trying to make a Texas only internet where the state controls what you see. It's Fing scary to live in TX.
They're petty tyrants abusing what little power they have.
Bingo!
That and fighting the "Libs". Right wing media has poisoned the minds of the GOP base, to the delight of Russia and China.
This is how you make ignorance permanent.
That's a feature not a bug. If republican didn't have the ignorance vote, they'd be done as a political party
That's exactly what they want.
Now consider . . . never before in the entire history of mankind, have so many educated people lived so freely and so abundantly and NOW, so connected to a shared, Worldwide Experience with near-instant communication. It is guaranteed to Wake THIS Generation Up. Epochal Eclipse April 8h 2024. Matthew 16: 4
Don't stare at the sun -- awakening on the 9th.
Matthew 24: 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
NOTHING in Pentecostalism can be saved.
Controlling the masses 101...Keep them dumb and uneducated
Do u expect much more from Texas??
I remember being in HS and having a 'Banned Books Week' where we were encouraged to read books banned in the past and later unbanned or from places where they were banned. It's always good to expand your mind, especially in ways that challenge your own perceptions.
These people don't want you to expand your mind.
They want you too OBEY and shut up.
@@rogerwilco2 you get it 🤝
I feel people would call that dangerous today.
Completely agree. I think republicans are over compensating in the war against Critical Theory, which is the philosophy that informs the derivatives we hear about everyday. It's designed to dismantle institutions in a society and culture, and it works very well. Taking back schools and their libraries is good - but the public library is for all of us, not just or even for, children. Parents can decide if their child should even be in a public library - so there's no argument there for it, either.
Matt , I went to a high School named Macomber vocational high
As a child in the 80's our teachers always told us that banning books was the beginning of the end of democracy. This is my generation doing this. Please if you live in a state that is banning books vote, speak up. We can't afford to let this become the norm.
Did these people learn the wrong thing from their World War II studies? I was taught about the horror of it in the 80s and 90s.
Hey let's join them and ban the Bible that book does the most damage to children in this country. We should fight to ban that book from children.
@@katherinebaxter6870 That's exactly where Republicans learned to do this.
NOW SEE! Pentecostal Prophets and Faith Healing Charlatans -- the fakiest and the richest prophets ever seen in all 1,993 years of Christianity -- proclaimed Trump chosen by God and DECEIVED 100's of millions of Christians worldwide.
NOTHING can be saved in PENTECOSTALISM -- not even the ewes in the pews now. They are completely under the Grand Delusion.
Matthew 24: 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Yes.
Poor librarian. I’m so sorry you are surrounded by such idiots.
So they don't have the right to decide what they want in their communities?
Don't worry, she'll go out into the world and become rich trading her real life skills for money.
Oh, wait, she's a progressive. She has no real skills. If she can't mooch off of tax payers, she'll starve to death.
RIP Progressive librarian.
@@Reaper-cm4jr Nobody is saying they don't have the right. We are saying is them exercising that right based on uneducated opinions is just dumb.
@@Reaper-cm4jr Who is "they"? What about people that want those books? Or is it just what YOU want?
@@viperabyss It's uneducated in whose opinion----Yours?
They are like teenagers throwing a tantrum. Can't have their own way so they are going to break things instead.
_Edit:_ There is a newer update on this story, and they voted to keep the libraries open. So it's like a teen _threatening_ to break things, but not following through. Still a tantrum.
Well stated.
I have worked and volunteered in public and school libraries since I was in elementary school. I never thought I would live to see the day that libraries and books get banned over their contents. For shame on our government and the people supporting this!
Shame on Republican party..this is directly related to one political party.
I suspect we'll be having this so called 'culture war' for the next 20 years... it's really people fighting against the shifting demographics in this country.
Your people are sick with this trashy books that you want little kids to read no morals whatsoever
@@nata3467 One political party that supports the Proud Boys!!!!!
You elected them and let them continue to steal oxygen. You get what you deserve. Sort your trash out.
Reminds of pools that were refilled with cement rather than have integrated pools. Very similar to the past.
Wherever there is bigotry there is spite.
Republicans often vote against their own interests. Probably because they can't read and don't know what their interests even are.
Wow. Did that actually happen ?
( not doubting you, just that im not american )
@Daneen Murf yep. The good Ole USA, where there is and has never been any "real" racism. 🤫
@@daneenmurf1043 it did happen. I grew up in Kansas, and my parents told me about it, once, as we drove past that former pool location. My town must have been without a public swimming pool for about 20 years. Finally a new one was built, that was open to everyone, and I learned to swim there.
These parents can take a flying leap. They are taking away books that other people want to read. Let them keep their kids out of public libraries and schools if they want to, but how dare they tell everyone else what they can or cannot read!?!
That is quite a smart suggestion! Just don't give you kid a library card and it can't read those "evil" books.
@@leonlowenstadter9223you don’t need to give your kids a library card, kids can sign up for their own…. my 12yo mind was blown at the thought of all that power 😅 didn’t need a parent signature or anything
Ban deviant books from all kids
If the parent doesn't want their kid to check out the book, then they should be there every time to make sure their kid doesnt, that's called parenting, that does not give anyone the right to do a blanket ban on books.
That is called helicopter parenting and micromanaging.
So would you be OK if your child's school library had Mein Kamph?
Yes?? Why wouldn’t you? It’s an important historical book that many people still use today to analyze Hitler and his ideology. The book isn’t evil, it’s just a book. It’s not going to turn children into genocidal fascists. Also, no one is putting controversial historical prints in the children’s section.
@@Reaper-cm4jr I'm pretty sure this isn't a school library, though? You do realize that adults also go to the library, right? As far as I'm concerned, public libraries should be able to have that kind of book(or basically any, for that matter), provided that they are in a special area that's not accessible to kids without express parental consent.
@@VampguyN85 True, but better such parents confine their helicopter parenting and micromanaging to their own children, rather than inflict it on everyone else.
Closing down an entire library system because you don’t like the books inside is just about the most ignorant thing to do. Stupidity runs rampant in Texas 🤦🏽♂️
It appears ‘stupidity’ is running rampant like covid in America. How,how I ask is this country still a ‘super power’?
Nazism at it's finest.
It's not about books. It's about principle, Don't mess with Texas means something to Texans
Yes it does and comes east to Florida. It's simple....if you don't like certain books, DON'T READ THEM! If you don't want your kids reading certain books don't allow them to check them out. It's ridiculous to take the books away from everyone else who uses the public library. Stupidity is certainly rampart.
@@NickTx823who's messing with Texas? How are these libraries messing with Texas? 🙄
I’d love to see the stats on how many of these “outraged“ parents even have a public library card. If their kids have a hunger for knowledge good on them because they certainly didn’t learn it from these parents.
I'm not a parent. I'm not from TX. I'm from MO and 60. I have a library card and I use it. :) Can't imagine otherwise. It is a great place to escape to.
Do you have a library card? I've had one since I was 6 yrs. old, and a little old lady up the street paid me a quarter to take her books back to the library and pick up her new ones every week. I dearly love libraries and have since I was big enough to walk to one. An advantage of living in a small town without crime, back in the very early sixties!
Libraries are not just vital repositories of public reading, they are safe havens for studying and writing academic work. Basically by banning Libraries they are showing in so many ways that they are anti education. I suppose it makes sense since schools, except in the rich neighborhoods, have to work for less nowadays.
Only in Texas amirite
They ARE anti-education
The far right radicals prefer uneducated people. Easier to control if they can think for themselves.
Just anti-indoctrination and the woke agenda.
I'd guess that most city-type libraries really aren't for "education" per se, though. I know that some of the most popular check-outs in the one I worked in were romance novels and pop novels in general. There WERE some standard reference books and non-fiction, but if you wanted anything serious you had to go to a college library or do inter-library loan. (This was just as the internet was getting started.) Honestly, some non-fiction books aren't cutting edge by the time it takes to get them published, and serious research books can be very, very expensive. Even when I was working in a library, the future of the brick-and-mortar library was uncertain.
Former Llano County resident here. This sort of reactionary politics here is a big reason why we chose to leave Texas.
As you should.
@@abbycollins being uneducated is bliss
There's more to picking a place to live than big cheap houses right? Good luck on your new venture!
please tell me you didnt move to FL
Lucky Texas! 😂😂😂
The whole point of libraries is that there's always a book that will upset someone, and parents have full control over what their kids check out.
These parents want to parent other kids but not parent their own.
If you don't want your kid doing or reading something, that's something you should do with your child- not someone else's. Just cause they want to keep their kids sheltered and in the dark so they grow up mindless and obedient, doesn't mean others want their kids to be the same.
IF parents are so concerned, go WITH your kids to the library and monitor what they read and check out.
Are you expecting parents to actually parent? That would take effort and time away from Qanon and insane Facebook memes. Then how would they know what is going on in the schools and libraries? Ha!
@@Anne--Marie You nailed it
@@Anne--Marie brilliant
My late mother was an avid reader, read all kinds of books. My father with an 8th grade education loved books. My parents let us read what ever books we wanted to and we turned out just fine and more tolerant of the world. As children we would spend time in the library all summer long. Mom would rather have us reading instead of us running around getting into trouble.
I used to read about crazy adventurers tackling fire breathing dragons when about 8.
This is so petty and childish for a county government to do this of all things.
And yet, it is so very Texan. So very, very, Texan.
When conservatives say they want small government, what they mean is they want to govern everything they don't like.
More money to put in their pockets instead of taxes going to the city
@@phillipchallis966 I am ashamed I was born in Texas
@@phillipchallis966 It is? Im from virgina. Dont know nothing bout texas
The amount of kids that went out of their way to read that stuff in the library in the first place was nonexistent, the fact that parents are mad that their child even has the choice to checkout a book like that is mind numbing to me.
Welcome to Fascism
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 They can make those decisions for their own kids, but not anyone else's.
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 You mean leprechauns don't exist? Yeah, put it in the fiction section, along with the bible.
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 ah God.
Fictions most popular antagonist.
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 my parents abused me. is that a "parental decision"?
I once read that it is the parents' responsibility to keep their child away from those books. Note that I said "their child" not all children. Books should not be banned from libraries because that would be keeping the books away from all children.
As a black man that's sat down and read through Caste twice, I don't know if I'm more appalled or confused at this decision.
...you should be Angry 🤨 ..This Is Disturbing pattern in America, the Fascist are Empowered and Embolden by #DarkMoney, that's what drives hysteria like this.
And that Dark Money comes from Billionaires, like Harlan Crow, Peter Thiel, and many more like them. It's an element of their broader plan, which is a scorched earth policy...at any cost.
Texas Paul devlve into the issue some:
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Maybe a bit of both. There’s no reason to ban books just because you feel uncomfortable reading them. If anything, books that show the harsh truth behind our history and current society can open up your eyes more than reading something that sanitizes everything
You shouldn't be confused, the same people have been banning/burning books for centuries.
I enjoy going to my local library to cool off and read in the summer.
This is so sad to me. Not everyone has a smart device to read on.
I think "smart" and Texas are mutually exclusive words.
At my library, you can borrow a digital reading device. 📖
In a heat wave, libraries often become a cooling center for those who don't have central air conditioning at home. Sometimes this can mean the difference between life-and-death.
@@cherylb6755 that’s awesome. Like a kindle or tablet?
@@goodun2974 good point! Which makes the whole situation even worse unfortunately.
I don't blame the librarian for protecting herself.
I blame the would be Christians for be frauds!
Right
She should exercise her 2nd Amendment, works both ways RWNJs
I hate that she has to
@@sawtooth808 Hopefully DeSantis and Abbott discover the 2nd amendment soon
What's hilarious about this situation is that I've been saying for years that if public libraries were proposed today, the Conservatives would vote them down because they're "Socialism". And Conservative friends told me "no way, that's just nitpicking and being a hater".
Here we are.
You know what comes next? Post office (they've been trying for decades), public access roads (all toll baby!), and public parks. It's disturbing that Capitalists created all these things in the 19th and 20th centuries and now Capitalists are tearing them down.
Carnegie himself was a free market capitalist. It's weird to watch his grandsons (in spirit) wreck his legacy.
I remember when the public library system was considered an achievement of our society. I can't believe how much our society has degraded in my short lifetime. It cant even be called regression at this point because at no point in American history have we ever been this negligent about our rights and privileges. It's crossed into full blown willfull sabotage.
Well, Roe V Wade was overturned about a year ago right? Maybe if the same court that accomplished that feat can get the First Amendment overturned we could really see the libraries improved!!
@@Zurround There is no right to abortion in the US Constitution. There is a 1st Amendment, but that means YOU have the right to read what you want, but the government isn't mandated to give it to you or make it available at the public library.
Public libraries were an achievement, until the left took them over and started turning them into "adult bookstores".
@@willmont8258public libraries are government-funded, so aren't allowed to censor Constitutionally protected free speech. Written works are covered under 1A.
@@joshfromga9017 That is not true. Your comment shows you don't understand what you are talking about. Just because something is funded publicly doesn't mean every book must be carried or made available by public libraries. The 1st Amendment means the government can't ban it from being read or owned by people, but not that every library must have it. That would be impossible, so each library might decide which books to buy and carry. So is that censorship because each library doesn't have every book? No. The 1st has nothing to do with which books a library has or doesn't have, as long as people are free to get the book on their own. If the government said no citizen could have that book, then the 1st would be violated.
If these adults are concerned about what book their child is checking out, the adult should accompany the child to the library. These parents don't have the right to tell other people's kids what they can read.
But they do because it's the way of the Handmaid's Tales!!!!!
not sure these adults read...maybe they can...maybe they can't.....
Bro my library has age restrictions on the card. You cannot check out adult books with a child/teen card. How hard is it?
You don't have to check the book out if you read it in the library.
I guarantee these parents have never stepped foot in a library, they’re extremely ignorant.
Isn't that still not following the judges order?
Conservatives: Other countries like China are taking our jobs! We are falling behind!
Also conservatives: Let’s get rid of public libraries because they have a few books we don’t like.
Also conservatives: let's make sure our kids are ignorant and illiterate so they won't be able to get a job at McDonald's. Let's make sure we have the WORST education system in the developed world, so EVERY country outperforms us.
So what you’re saying is… they took er jobs!!!
This statement of yours is almost as sorrowful as attempting to ban books of the nature shown from a library.
Stupid people are easier to control
Didn't China burn most of its books back in the 50s??? And doesn't it ban books today?
Imagine if this were a restaurant. You have a wide assortment of foods and meals to choose from. No one is forcing you to order what you don’t like. You don’t have the right to tell costumers what they can and cannot eat. You don’t shut down the restaurant just because you hate broccoli.
Wait, what? You CAN'T???
;)
Now make republicans understand this
Don't worry, restaurants and other businesses owned by minorities and democrats are next. Texas is gearing up for it's Kristallnaucht.
@@nemesisurvivorleon It's really hard to break this down into words of one and two syllables, y'know.
Remember when the right went apesh*t over banning super sized cola?
I can't afford to buy new books, but I can check them out at my local library and I would be very angry if my library closed!
This is beyond ridiculous. So basically they would rather be completely ignorant and allow their children to grow up completely ignorant, than to learn about topics that make them feel uncomfortable or face truths they don't want to face. They are setting their children up for failure in life because the rest of the world lives in reality and not some edited never land.
Ignorant and stupid.
My parents never restricted what we read. What they did was identify what we were reading. Read it themselves. Then we discussed what we read.
Texas ans Florida will make their citizens unemployable if they keep it up😢
The insidious thing is that they don't just want it for their kids, they want to force their ignorance, fear, and stupidity down our kids throats as well.
Yes
Saw this somewhere and it resonated with me. "Throughout history, those that banned books were never the good guys"
Nobody's banning the books, they're just not wanted in that community. I say let the locals vote.
Well said
@@NickTx823 Nope. Don't like the book then don't check it out. Worried your child will read something then do your job as a parent and PARENT! You don't get to make decisions for everyone else when it comes to books.
@@NickTx823 Sure, all they have to do is show a valid/current library card that was used in the last year and be able to fill out a questionnaire about which books they want banned and the specific content they find offensive. If they can't do that, then they don't actually care about the book or it's contents. They just want to ride the high of being part of the "in crowd" waving torches and pitchforks.
@@kevinvelasco6167 2 things. 1. it should be up to the community as it's a community library and 2. are those books really that groundbreaking that anyone will be less educated by not having those books in a public library? You'd rather sue to have such silly books in a public library rather than just buying them yourself? (Not you specifically, you generally speaking) some communities would rather not deal with nonsense. I don't see anyone outraged that every public library doesn't carry every book in existence.
Just when we need more libraries.
It's insanity. No one is forcing you to read the books. Don't read them. Tell your children not to read the books.
As a librarian, every time I hear about one of us being attacked, I feel attacked myself.
OI course you do because it's impossible that there could be any bad librarians who actually deserve to lose their jobs, right?
@@topomusicale5580 rice and beans
@@topomusicale5580 OK, would you like to give a logical example for the classroom?
ok, so defend yourself. The more you give in the more they'll take.
@@topomusicale5580 Explain provide details coward.
Here's the thing: this is a library. You want to read a book? Do it. You don't want to read a book? You don't have to. The US thrives if and only if we foster free markets, including thought.
I'm in my thirties and went to a an all girl catholic school. I remember the school telling us we weren't allowed to read certain books even though they were purchased with our own or parents money. They thought Harry Potter was demonic, they were against the girls reading a romance novel by a certain author and a lot of science fiction was evil. All it did was make girls especially those who didn't read to go out and find those books. It was the first time I saw so many reading beside us nerds. The romance novel they forbid us wasn't even on our radar until THEY mentioned it. My friend got in big trouble and had to have a parent teacher conference for being caught with one of my sci-fi books (she didn't snitch on me and didn't tell me until after it was all over) It was so sad but we still joke about it to this day. Honestly it was one of my favorite books and reading was my escape from the real world and home problems.
White elephants. You tell someone to not think about white elephants and then all they can think about are white elephants.
Libraries are also used for business research. Shutting them down will decrease economic activity in the county.
Do they really?
@@Aeroldoth3 Libraries are used for a lot. Refuge for anyone looking to escape bad weather conditions if they are homeless, places to learn, places to share and socialize, places to host meetings for many different groups, places to research, access the internet, keep kids safe and off the streets...and many even help people with emergencies like domestic abuse, child abuse or neglect, helping scared anxious or unsafe people make important calls... the list goes on. libraries are the ultimate ideal of social collaboration and free/easy access to information. and thats exactly what republicans fear. they can't win if the people are informed and able to reach each other.
@don s What do you mean "business materials"? Do you mean like archived newspapers and data, or something more? I've never heard of this so I'm wondering how libraries are helping businesses.
@@Aeroldoth3 they're making future employees in the long run
@@Aeroldoth3 can't speak for economic topics, but as a historian I've spent a lot of time in library archives going through stuff of which there is only one accessible copy. That is my personal need for a library
My mind is blown..... in the 70s I read almost every book in our private school library and 2 local public library by the end of 9th grade. The unread read ones were the college text book type or had no interest in. If it was paperback I was reading it, even if i didn't understand what I was reading. My librarians worked hard to broaden my interest but also prepare me for high school and college level reading and comprehension.
Closing a public library is a setback for so many children.
How about parents parent amd go with their children if they want to moderate book selections.
Even crazier, heaven help the kid who shares a book one parent doesn't approve of.
As a book lover this just hurts my heart.
As a 9 year old immigrant boy in California, libraries were my Holy spaces. Nobody in a library ever mistreated me.
I'm an Australian and I'd like to know if there's any way to move my country further away from America!
I live in Australia too, and even I don't feel safe being a ocean apart from the USA
Canada better start building a wall
This is a shame, scandal, embarrassment. and an intellectual atrocity for our society. My grandmother was a part time librarian, I grew up going to libraries from the time of pre-school all through my childhood. These places were a lifeline, sanctuary, and site of mental exploration where I could freely pick up different books, records, magazines, and allow my mind to absorb a rainbow of ideas. I am a better person for having had that experience. These present fools are dooming their kids and other people's kids to a mental wasteland if they continue to do this stupidity in the name of their culture wars which is just a cover for wielding power.
You couldn't have worded it any better!
"The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Except culutural reprogramming has happened successfully over history. At least for a while. It worked for Hitler until the end of the war, and China hasn't caught up and overcome it's massive setback thanks to Chairman Mao. People do this day still have ptsd over talking about Mao openly and are too afraid to talk openly about the current government like with their toxic masculinity wars for example.
@@VampguyN85 That's a lot of words to say exactly nothing at all.
Roosevelt would have banned troon books. He was not referring to g@y erotica. Redditors and their revisionism.....
Plenty of idiots in texas raising their kids to be ignorant idiots as well. Unless you actively encourage the freedom of learning then idiots will just keep on breeding. This gets to the point when they outnumber the opposition at the polls and get to dictate the cultural changes.
@@VampguyN85 Wow, you triggered these guys pretty good with a simple recitation of confirmable information. You should count that as a tactical success.
This is just how Small and how Petty these people are.... they would shut down an entire library system(likely never to open again) just to keep a few books out of the hands of others.
I think some of these parents would, if given the option, choose to rule over their children their entire lives, even from beyond the grave. Most will be profoundly disappointed as soon as their children have contact with the real world and reject the lies and omissions that underpin their "values".
This reminds me of the stories of North Korea. The citizens are shielded and brainwashed, but if any of them actually find out what life is like outside of North Korea, they try to escape.
Not just NK. Most of the world doesn't put up with homosexuals.
This is sooo true.
@@archer-f Unfortunately, most don't do well in South Korea.
Correct, and it's why they are lonely and miserable people.
This reminds me of the mid-20th century, when the federal government required southern states to integrate pools, swimming holes etc. Rather than integrate, the cities and towns just closed these resources to everyone.
Guess we know where these book banners got their tactics.
@Guy Ledouche yes they are. Shutup liar
Wow this is just sad and ridiculous that they are even considering closing the libraries over this. The world gets sadder and sadder.
If the parents are so concerned about what their children are reading they should be reading the books with them and have formative discussions.
Unfortunately, this process takes too much time, not to mention too much involvement with one's own children!
when I was a little girl the bookmobile would come once a week and I loved them almost as much as the ice cream truck. Books are a gift. THEY ARE CHOOSING IGNORANCE
@Johny Ringo lol. Yes. Why is this difficult to understand? Not every book in any library is appropriate for every child. That's just common sense. If you're incapable of raising your kid without ruining public libraries and schools for everyone else, you shouldn't have had them. Learn to be a parent instead of pushing your beliefs on everyone else. Grow up.
@Johny Ringo lol. "How to be too stupid to learn in just one step" the only book a republican won't censor. I understand the situation just fine. There's a bunch of crybabies that want to control what others can and can't do, whining about nothing they understand anything about, in a senseless attack on some of the best government institutions we have. Why? Even you don't know why. Morals? Hardly. You just want control.
The Republican Way.
@Johny Ringo work on your understanding skills.
@johnyringo6442As a parent, it is YOUR responsibility to monitor your child. But you do NOT have a right to dictate to the entire country what they can and cannot read based on YOUR personal beliefs. If you don't want your child reading certain books, don't let them. Accompany them to the library yourself and monitor your own child. But leave everyone else alone and let them live their lives in peace.
Shuttering the libraries is the point.
to own the libs...they will will make Texas illiterate ...
Exactly! 1981 anyone?!
@@DrOtis9624 It’s 1984 but you’re close enough😺
@@ragganyc Keypad typo, I'm guessing
Not only are the libraries closing down, so too is the ability of Americans to think and discern for themselves. The extremes of both the far right and far left is a form of mass psychosis.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Close LIBRARIES?!! Bro, most people get their reading materials OFF THEIR PHONES (tablets, kindle etc)! Are we going to ban those too next?! We really are dumbing down as a society yo.
I double dare you to tell them about the reading materials on ..their phones. :D
Not everyone have WiFi to access or download books.
It's the only way the GOP can get votes: keep the voters ignorant and uneducated.
@@teresalegler2777 There's plenty of places with free wifi.
fahrenheit 451 here we come !
It's amazing that they are accusing the librarian of being a pedophile, while their churches are full of them .
Your party is full of them and your voters are most of them 🤷🏻♂️
Well, there's the "right" kind of pedophile in Texas, and there's the "wrong" kind.
Yesssssss! Absolutely!!
...and in their sports organizations, and child pageants...
@@nathanlevesque7812 they're everywhere these days👀
If you keep them stupid they will be easy to rule over. Can’t have them learning anything that doesn’t line up with our view of how things were or are. Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.
The internet is a good plan b.
How stupid. This has gotten entirely out of control.
These are the same type of people that like to scream "WOKE" at every instance when something happens they don't agree with.
i still dont even know what that means and am so tired of those troglodytes screaming it about everything
They call easily offended people “snowflakes”, yet seem to be easily offended…by books.
"Woke" is the new "Commie" of the red scare era
@@miguelangelvizuetmata555 Most the people who call people snowflakes are snowflakes themselves.
@@Catlily5 true, true
My grandmother used the phrase “cutting off your nose to spite your face.” I think this is what she was talking about.
This is literally a fascist move...
To all the librarians standing strong for our freedom to read - thank you, we see you, there's no profession I trust more in the US than a public librarian.
Looks like Texas needs to talk to a therapist. 😮
Texas has always been a f--ked up state. Disgustingly overrated in every way
Cancel trip to Austin.
the Texas Taliban !
Hey, no need to insult the Taliban.
or the Giliads!!!!
Book banning is a dereliction of parenting. My father was a minister and he was very much against book banning. He was also very much for talking to his children and making sure we had a comfortable understanding of things that we experienced outside our home.
Would your father support the public library carrying Hustler Magazine?
@@willmont8258 Even if the library carried Hustler Magazine (or ANY of the books you want banned), no one is forcing you or your children to read them.
@@cleopatracatra2097 You can get that book on your own, so it is not banned. And the people of a community have a right to decide which books their library should buy and carry. You don't get to demand any book you want from the library.
@@willmont8258 and you don't get to force your faith down others throats. You can go ch0ke on a copy of Anne Frank's diaries for all I care.
Fahrenheit 451 is a warning not a manual.
Or is that banned as well?
The adults in this county apparently want their children to be as ignorant as they are.
The Men of the Republic of Gilaid as depicted in the Handmaid's Tales!
The solution to this problem is SUPER SIMPLE. The federal government has strict rules when it comes to education and funding. If Texas closes the libraries, then just cut ALL FEDERAL FUNDING to the state and give them what they claim to want; their own tiny little 3rd world country to destroy any way they wish. We can make them get a visa to travel out of the (literal) "Lone-Star-State" into the Free States of America.
p.s. That goes for you too Florida, and any other state that wishes to leave
I'm from Texas and I agree.
We should build their wall, just move it to the border of Texas and America. Same with Florida.
sorry is this supposed to sound threatening? we would LOVE to secede. please do this so the country can dissolve already.
Please don't propagate this - red states have massive, suppressed blue communities that should not have to suffer. At the very least we need ways to get them out if they need to flee
Destroyed Like California and New York falling right behind???
It's one thing to keep these books out of elementary schools (which I agree with) but just shutting down your whole county's libraries? Kids can't really avoid school and teachers can push things on their students when they think nobody's watching... but the public libraries aren't just for kids and they're a choice. Nobody HAS to participate in a public library system. If anything, that's where books of this nature belong: on a shelf, publicly accessible for everyone who wants to read them and out of the way of everyone who doesn't. They're not plastering these books all over billboards or websites, they're not requiring children read them, they're just checking them out and putting them back on the shelf when they're done.
Now, if this was a privately owned library of some sort or a bookstore, we'd have a different discussion; this however is about PUBLIC libraries, paid for by taxpayers. If they catch wind of this and say "no," then that's the end of it.
Sounds like Texas-utter madness
the fact they are even holding a county meeting on whether to close a public library because of this is asinine. The leaders and the people that vote for this is ridiculously close minded. 🤦♂
When you're afraid of knowledge, you're on the wrong side. Also the losing side.
What a sad shameful day for this country.
I am surprised any libraries have managed to survive in red states this long.
Next thing is Texas wants to regulate internet. But if the Chinese regulate internet it is a violation of free speech...:)
why do i not feel surprised
Those same ignorant parents wanting to ban certain books from a library also give their kids a smartphone with unfettered access to the internet. 🤦♂
People of Llano County -Fight back! Surrounding communities- show up to show your support! Banning books is wrong! Bless that local woman librarian’s heart.💕🌼
When did knowledge become “evil” and ignorance become preferred?
When Adam and Eve ate the nasty (explicit) fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.
As you can sell any story to an uneducated person, it makes politicians lives much easier!
"Idiocracy" was a documentary.
Devolved, the prequel!
Access to a library shouldn't have to be a protected federal right
This is insane!! Put the books back and know that they have to leave it up to the parents to check out books that they want or don't want their kids to read.
the stronger these parents try to control their kids, the more extreme rebellion these kids will have when they get to that age.
If they don't drive their own children to death or homelessness over trying to resist their "parental rights"...
Well that's just ignorant. Imagine being scared of books, beer cans, flags, syrup, clothes, religion, race, colors, etc... it's just pathetic.
I'm curious how many of the people screaming to ban books actually have a library card.
No one is banning books. You are free to buy whatever books you want. But we don't want our public libraries to turn into "adult bookstores".
@@willmont8258 I don't know of any "adult bookstores" that carry Maurice Sendak....
I still have mine but I haven't been to the library since before Covid. I should check up on it to see how it's doing.
@@willmont8258 You're nuts. In a free society, you're free NOT to read whatever you want. Which, apparently, in your case is quite a bit. And precisely who is this "we" you speak of? You and your three member "Purity Committee"? With maybe some members of the DAR as Guest Speakers? I'll bet you've been a thorn in everyone's side since you could toddle. Look up the definition of the word CRANK in the dictionary. Then apply it to yourself.
God bless, Texas. Remind me again why we haven't haven't just given that state to Mexico? Oh right... it would be cruel to inflict that on Mexico.
Um, Well actually we already stole it from Mexico…
@@houndsofvalor I vote we give it back. Gift them Oklahoma as the interest payment.
I mean we stole it from them to begin with
@@puppyresidue
You don't even know History your ignorance is showing.
.... Nooooo! I live in Texmenistan, as I call it. It's not really a Red state, it should be Purple, but all the Gerrymandering has corrupted it, with Nationalism and Ignorant Trumpism... Plus it has the 10th largest Economy, if it was compared to a G20 country 🤨
Gotta fix the problems in Texas, to make it great again.
Where do you have to be in life to be supporting the restriction and banning of society’s oldest and most accessible information safe spaces?
I vaguely remember something similar happening in Europe around the 1940s led by a relatively small group with a peculiar symbol...
Now we are led by another small group with a peculiar symbol. Oy vey!
Imagine when Llano County discovers the internet and that they can't ban it!
They'll learn from the Red Chinese on how to censor the internet the Chinese Way!
They banned rice a roni because its the San Francisco treat
So the kids will grow up as ignorant as their adults…
These kids know how to Google! Good luck keeping anything from them!😊😊
They might ban Google in 2030 at this rate in Texas.
My heart goes to the librarian. I hope she finds good job that is not run by idiots.
As a Texan and a voracious reader I am unfortunately not shocked but definitely disappointed in Texas with this issue.
Texas should just stop teaching kids to read. IF they cannot read, books become useless.
Lol true
I'm pretty sure it's already pretty low on their priority list.
You're so right!!! I guess after they learn to handle a gun, they've pretty much got the most important skill needed for living in Texas.
I live in Texas. They already did. Most of the people around here don't know their there from their they're. Most of our legislation is written in crayon.
I mean ... that's where things are headed. Conservatives hate schools. They probably think "ALL YOU NEED TO LEARN IS HOW TO PRAY AND HOW TO WORK A TRADE!" or something.
Isn't that a contempt of court for that county not to comply with federal judge's orders to restore the books back as it is in violation of the US constitution.
Technically speaking, they’ll still be complying as they will return the books to the library. Coincidentally, they’ll cut the power and lock the building for good 3 minutes later.
If *I* don't want to read it, then NO ONE can read it!!
Basically replace "read" for any other word, e.g., love, marry, abort, behave different from expected gender norms, etc.
people in texas all worked up about a library that they likely haven't stepped foot into in more than a decade. I love how the right wing is all worked up about groomers, but they never seem to have problems taking their kids to church where countless children have been abused or molested over the years.
How many churches have you been in? Just because some violated the very tenets of the church doesn't mean all are abusive.
@@kathleenkirchoff9223 that's exactly what a groomer would write. Churches should all be closed down for good.
Super easy to flip their own crap against them, I'm really not sure why this isn't happening everyday in these conversations.
Where is Barnes and Noble or Amazon? They could earn so serious good will by allowing adolescents free access to their digital libraries.
Remove the county board members keep the books.
I am never living in Texas... or any state that does this... Before I had Kindle, I had to rely on my school and city library. If I finished the book, I would have to wait soo long for my mom to take me back for another. My second dream career is to be a librarian and I want to expand kids imaginations. Literally putting a chokehold on them and their creative minds.
Bravo. You're smart 🤓
Texas is too rural and hillbilly anyways!!!
If you dont like the books in that library, or if you dont like what books they dont have....dont go there!! 🤣😂
Libraries are a lot more than books; it is a safe place to meet to study, they have computers connected to internet, printers, news papers, movie videos, and magazines.. I gone in an was able to look up how to make up wills, and legal forms for the price of printing, that the government would charge a lot more for, if you know exactly what you are looking for. I was able to do research on all kind of repairs, find consumer reports magazines, and many other things. My wife was able to look up some family history in the geology section. I have spent many hours in a library and never once has someone who worked there pushed any agenda on me, and had been nothing but helpful from finding information to inter-library loans if they do not have what I wanted. They have too much to offer to just have some one just throw away the whole system of service to everyone.
I hope they don't go after book stores next.
This is extremely sad.
Ive noticed how Republicans say someone is "grooming kids" when they're actually just giving kids information and access to knowledge...
Ok groomer
It's grooming, alright.
Not just the type they want.
They don't want intellectually curious citizens, nor ones capable of critical thinking, historical awareness, sense of self nor agency.
They want a people composed of unthinking drones that will accept every and anything, will never question the status quo, and will be happy to fight amongst themselves for whatever crumbs the top elites, give them.
the goal is to make grooming easier to get away with by muddying the water, associating reprehensible behavior exclusively with their political enemies and putting political allies above question, and making sure children are given as little information as possible about their own bodies, minds, and place in society to keep them vulnerable and easy to control.
@@Tuxfanturnip So exactly what the dems do
@@crazychase98 ???? literally what
Wow, this is BONKERS. Thank you for covering this situation! I hope the citizens of that County stand up and speak out to keep their libraries!
There's less than 200 books that are truly in question. They will absolutely figure this out.