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cbabe

(4,316 posts)
Mon Dec 27, 2021, 02:53 PM Dec 2021

Book bounty hunters:

Oklahoma legislator introduced bill giving $10,000per day to any parent requesting a book be banned from school library.

If school does not comply, parent gets bounty.

Small government GOP waging war.

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Ocelot II

(121,523 posts)
1. If a parent requested that the Bible be banned, would they get the money?
Mon Dec 27, 2021, 02:55 PM
Dec 2021

There's a lot of sex and violence in that book, so maybe it shouldn't be in a school library.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. This must surely include Republican fav book to ignore: The Bible
Mon Dec 27, 2021, 02:56 PM
Dec 2021

I'm a going out to the mailbox now to await my $10K.

Meet you all at Cheers online. Drinks are on the Republican Oklahoma legislator.



5X

(3,988 posts)
3. People ask what book would you want if you were stranded on a desert island...
Mon Dec 27, 2021, 03:12 PM
Dec 2021

The 1619 Project cause some right winger would find me.

Diamond_Dog

(35,199 posts)
4. This ignorant nincompoop will go far in today's GOP...
Mon Dec 27, 2021, 03:33 PM
Dec 2021

A prime candidate for Secy. Of Education

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
5. I went looking for more info and found a link that I was cautioned about so forget that.
Mon Dec 27, 2021, 05:11 PM
Dec 2021

I also found a link to this original op here. So I'll just say that librarians and their
supporters won't take this laying down. They'll form The Stacks into a circle and force
the reTHUG Fascists to sue for peace!

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,849 posts)
6. So, just because someone doesn't like a book
Mon Dec 27, 2021, 06:12 PM
Dec 2021

they can request it be banned?

That's beyond stupid.

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