I predict WV is going to have a sudden shortage of teachers and librarians.
https://www.wdbj7.com/2024/02/18/west-virginia-house-passes-bill-allow-prosecution-librarians-teachers-obscenity/
@MelissaHDavis give it several months but I predict that RepubliCON klown (I’ll exclude his name) will be arrested and jailed for abusing children, you can almost take it to the bank when one of them say they are going to protect children from obscenity and grooming they’re up to something! bet he’s the weekend pastor at an evangilical church with a large basement, the community will be in shock on the arrest, “never seen it coming” everyday the freedom crowd enact more censorship
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@MelissaHDavis the Republicans in Wisconsin are trying to pass that same law as well. 😢
@AverageCitizen
What is wrong with these people?
@MelissaHDavis @AverageCitizen
I mean, really? Every time I see someone trying to squash ideas and words, I am reminded immediately of Nazis and wonder how we got to a place where this is a good idea in the mainstream United States?
@CinnamonGirlE @AverageCitizen
Exactly. When did thinking become a problem?
I am a librarian. I refuse to be a sheep.
Critical reading; critical thinking. Sources matter!
@MelissaHDavis @AverageCitizen
Evidence based nurse here. And avid reader.
This is both terrifying and ridiculous.
@CinnamonGirlE @AverageCitizen
STAND AGAINST THE STUPIDITY!
Retain your right to read.
@MelissaHDavis the author of the bill (State Senator for my district) is a religious nut and I think he homeschools his kids anyway so they have no chance of getting exposed to a different point of view. They claim to love freedom but want to remove choices &force their beliefs onto everyone in the state. My former (due to becoming a religious zealot) friend is part of that group. There are a few of them in the state legislature now, they all attend the same church. The hypocrisy is astounding.
@MelissaHDavis And that's how they're destroying public education..