Conservative-dominated court restores books denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’ to school libraries
An appellate court has ruled that Texas cannot ban books from libraries simply because they mention “butt and fart” and other content which some state officials may dislike.
The fifth US circuit court of appeals issued its decision on Thursday in a 76-page majority opinion, which was written by Judge Jacques Wiener Jr and opened with a quote from American poet Walt Whitman: “The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.”
In its decision, the appellate court declared that “government actors may not remove books from a public library with the intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree”.
And these old farts are complaining about how “soft” today’s youth are? They really need to get their heads out of their butts.
And also tout freedom of speech.
They gonna come for your post next.
I think it says something that one of the books they were trying to ban was Called Themselves the K.K.K: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
If you look at the books that were banned and take out all the humorous ones about butts and farts, you’re left almost exclusively with books about past conservative atrocities and books about current targets of conservative bigotry.
The people who want to ban these books were too bigoted for the 5th Circuit. They’ll probably try to close the whole library next.
The Bible describes God showing Moses his ‘backside’, which a number of actual scholars interpret as including his butt.
Not sure about farts in the Bible, but there’s stories about rape, incest, at one point a description of men with ‘emission like donkeys’, ie, huge cum loads from big dicks.
They seem to never learn that if you try to ban ‘pornographic’ text, you’ll have to ban the Bible as well.
Nuh uh. I swored on the bi-bull three times. That ain’t in there. I never heard my preacher say that and all he ever talked about was the bi-bull.
That’s one angle though isn’t it, so then they can claim religious persecution?
Imagine being all worked up about books mentioning raging obscenities like ‘butt’ and ‘fart’, only to get slapped in the face by Judge ‘Wiener’. 😂
Theyre trying to ban him next
Get fucked fascists. Exactly never are the ones banning/burning books on the right side of history.
The desenting opinion called the court the “library police” for refusing to let the state police the library.
All they know is projection
Good. Fuck Butt Fart Texas. Books should not be censored for words. I remember a teacher in maybe 7th grade reading a book outloud with the word fuck in it, and he just said it and kept reading, he.knew the book well. I gained a lot of respect for that teacher and listened to him because I felt like he wasn’t going to censor what he taught us.
Take that you butt-hurt fart knockers.
And in 5 years they’ll all be wearing “Make Butt Fart Again” hats.
I haven’t farted in like twenty years. You have no idea how much you start to miss it.
Jesus, I am propelled everywhere I go by farts. Makes the kids laugh so I guess I’ll be alright.
I want that hat. It should be brown.
Now I want nothing more than to parade around in front of a bunch of conservatives in a “Make Butt Fart Again” hat
Apparently terms that anyone over 12 years old doesn’t find funny anymore count as “adult”.
Is this conservatives admitting that they are all just immature children?
Republicans are NOT Snowflakes!
Unfortunately, we know how this is going to go: “If you won’t let us ban books from the library, we’ll just ban the library.”
Already happening in some places. Local governments are cutting library funding because they don’t like the some of the content that their libraries are stocking, but the courts won’t let them ban it all.
Time to open private non-profit libraries, offer classes on social tolerance and apply for public grants?
Which was probably the intent from the start.
Btw, I absolutely ADORE that the acronym for the system used by libraries to weed out old books is MUSTIE 😆❤️
What does MUSTIE stand for? You can’t just leave us hanging! 🤓
Llano County applies the “MUSTIE” factors in weeding books, as recommended by experts in the field, under which a book is evaluated for whether it is (1) “Misleading and/or factually inaccurate,” (2) “Ugly (worn out beyond mending or rebinding),” (3) “Superseded by a new edition or a better source,” (4) “Trivial (of no discernable literary or scientific merit),” (5) “Irrelevant to the needs and interests of the community,” or (6) “Elsewhere (the material may be easily borrowed from another source).”
what, trying to equate “butt” and “fart” with porn didn’t work?
-moron GOP who think everyone is as dumb as they are
Anyone else thinking that this Judge would have gotten his autobiography banned for profanity just for the name?
