Florida actually banned dictionaries and encyclopedias?!!!

[iemanja]

Link to tweet

WTF?

[Greg_In_SF]

1. This was in January 2024

Clickbait tweet.

[iemanja]

2. Still, it's insane.

[LeftInTX]

3. It was a district. Not the state.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/01/11/florida-dictionary-removal/


Trust me, this is a conservative district in Texas panhandle near Amarillo, population 14,000.
Texas book ban law causes a school district to remove Bible from libraries
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/texas-book-ban-law-bible

[iemanja]

4. Yeah, it says it's a district

Only I don’t know it was last year because the Tweet is new.

[FBaggins]

5. No

Anything else?

[Figarosmom]

6. It had to come to this

I wonder if Prager has their own dictionary?

[Karasu]

7. No, not yet. Outside of that one district. But rest assured, they'll get there.

[YoshidaYui]

8. Spell Florida

“F-l-o-o-r-a-d-u-h.”

[eShirl]

9. surprised they haven't banned reading & writing

[iemanja]

12. That's coming.

[BoRaGard]

10. sick repube dummies

want everyone to be as submissive and stupid as they are

[no_hypocrisy]

11. One school or another has gone after The American Heritage Dictionary

for similar reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Heritage_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language

I still have mine, original publication (1969)