FL teacher videos boxes of books the state is removing from school. Anything with diversity?

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A Florida public school staff member, risking her job, documented a glimpse of what’s currently happening at her school. The state has come in and removed hundreds, thousands of books from their school library deeming the books “inappropriate”. 👇

[Walleye]

1. So Lewis and Clark was too woke?

These books must’ve been deemed appropriate at one time, what happened? Has anybody read them besides the students?

[lapfog_1]

7. possibly the book on Lewis and Clark

has either criticism of how Native Americans were treated.

OR

contain stories about how Native Americans actually helped Lewis and Clark accomplished their mission.

Either way, the racists won't like it.

[Walleye]

8. I am betting it is the latter

That might make the white kids feel bad about their ancestors killing Indians

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

33. The Lewis and Clark journals

Not only discuss cooperation with Native Americans and treat them like human beings...

But many of the entries are on the racy side. In some parts of the journals, we learn that some Native Americans were quite, er, impressed with the black man in the party (a slave, IIRC), and how they were throwing daughters at him to mate with him.

Plenty of not-child-friendly material like that in the originals, but not sure if they're in the abridged versions that most primary school libraries would carry. After all, the originals run into the hundreds of thousands of pages. Lewis and Clark copied each other's entries quite often for the sensible reason that one or the other one could get killed or their journals lost somehow. The longer the expedition went on, the more copying went on.

That's why few publishers have bothered to release "unabridged" versions--it takes fricking forever to get through the duplications alone, and never mind the "creative" spelling issues. Even then, most of these cleaned up versions run 5,000-10,000 pages. I think the highly-regarded Moulton set runs some 13 volumes at ~300-400 pages each. Not cheap, either, at $370 for the complete set.

[honest.abe]

2. My God. This is freaky.

I fear for the future of this country.

[Blue Owl]

3. Insanity is prevailing in Florida

Keep DeSatan away from the rest of the nation please

[Deuxcents]

4. These aren't just a few books..what is left? Did the Bible get the heave ho?

What are they gonna do with the books? Are we ever gonna recover from this madness?

[Nevilledog]

6. It's heartbreaking.

[Cobalt Violet]

5. The Encyclopedia of Mammal.

That shit is woke AF!

[ShazzieB]

21. I noticed that, too!

It must contain info about how mammals reproduce that the censors are afraid kids might be able extrapolate to figure out how human mammals reproduce! In other words: s e x. That has to be it!

God, trying to imagine how those prudes think makes my head hurt!

[Cobalt Violet]

23. How dare those mammal reproduce with out Desantis permission.

I agree, it's probably all about that.

[ShazzieB]

27. I meant to include this in my reply earlier, but forgot by the time I posted.

This reply jogged my memory!

[roamer65]

30. Probably because it talks about evolution.

Darwin was RIGHT.

[Initech]

9. How are they getting away with this? Why isn't this shit being challenged in court?

Seriously, Fox News, Desantis, and the MAGA Christian Taliban can go fuck themselves with a rusty bayonet.

[Rebl2]

10. Now if

Blue states would start taking books out of library’s that are related to republican’s, especially trump, pence, both bushes, Cheney etc. They won’t do that because they know it’s wrong. Wrong to keep people from reading what they want.

[Initech]

12. I wish we could get rid of that crap in bookstores!

I went to a Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago and was browsing the non fiction section. Literally every single book was right wing garbage and it was all negative. No wonder they're so angry all the time.

[Rebl2]

18. Hopefully they

end up on the sale table for $2 or less.

[Vdizzle]

11. Welp! They're all fired.

I’m sure when Ron hears about this video, they’ll all be gone. Welcome to fascism Florida! And if we aren’t careful, the rest of the US too!

[Deuxcents]

13. I thought the same thing..soon as he tracks em down, they'll be gone

[Sneederbunk]

14. When is the bonfire?

[jmowreader]

19. They'll be mulched

Burning books has been deemed “too Nazi-like.”

Shredding them and converting them into toilet tissue is perfectly fine. And yea, I thoroughly expect someone to come up with DeSantis Brand ass wipe “recycled from woke books!”

…even though they’re effectively the exact same fucking thing.

[TeamProg]

15. K&R Thanks for posting. n/t

[world wide wally]

16. Ignorance is bliss

[reymega life]

17. SEE

WE need a president that uses his power to send in federal officials too stop this from happening we need a strongman democrat to send in federal troop units to protect books.

[NowISeetheLight]

20. Dystopia

Florida should be renamed Dystopia. The book bans and other laws are so un-American.

[pnwmom]

22. Except not "hundreds of thousands." "hundreds, thousands" most likely means

it's in the range of hundreds to thousands of books removed.

They shouldn't be removing any, but we don't help our case by being as loose with the facts as they are.

[Nevilledog]

25. It was a typo. Person corrected in next tweet and I corrected it in the excerpt.

[Tickle]

24. It's not that I think it's right

by any stretch but my cousin in 1986 was forced to do that. It was devastating. This was in Boston Massachusetts. My point is that this is not new procedure. if someone with an understanding of this would speak up I would appreciate it.

[Iris]

26. There's a lot of missing info

Who is “the state”
What is this staff member’s role
Is this a high school library?
How many books are still on the shelves?
What is available electronically?

[BeckyDem]

28. Appalling. Murika is great again.

[Johnny2X2X]

29. They are taking control away from parents and teachers

This isn't about parental input for what kids read, it's actually the opposite. They want to take these decisions away from parents in regards to what their children read and give those decisions to the state or to a smaller set of extremist parents.

[roamer65]

31. Prime example of why Former Rep David Jolly wants to move his family out of FL.

[progressoid]

32. Is the Bible in there?

Some pretty racy stuff in the Bible!