Anti-censorship coalition urges Virginia governor to veto "Beloved" bill

[Malarkey]

Sometimes, my home state gives Texas a run for its money. SMDH.

[wrecksdart]

@Clifton

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[Clifton]

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It is the ancient custom among my people.

[shaddack]

@Clifton

It is the ancient custom among my people.

Try two passes, for doubling the security.

[anon61221983]

Nothing wrong with that. I object to censorship, though.

[anon36081309]

When I was in school, I liked it when my mom had read the books I was reading, so we could talk about them. She never censored anything, even when it was Marquis de Sade and I was 14. (Sexual sadism might have been a little much for that age, in retrospect.) She and I are very similar, though, and she knew that saying something was “not approved” was a guarantee that I’d want it.

[subextraordinaire]

Exactly. Once I picked up my sister’s Once Is Not Enough and she freaked and told my mother. My mom, who was born in the 1920’s, rolled her eyes and said that there’s nothing wrong with reading something that I was sure to hear about soon enough.

[Medievalist]

Did you read the bill in question?

I don’t like censorship either, not even when applied to kids. For several reasons, but mostly because it doesn’t work.

[anon73430903]

@robertmckenna

Thank goodness they don’t have access to a bible or something. That has scary shit in it!

My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

Who knew that Solomon was into scat?

[anon61221983]

Nope, not yet. I just mean that engaging with whatever your children are doing in school is a great idea. It’s good parenting. Censorship generally isn’t.

[Medievalist]

It’s weird. Definitely not a good law, in my opinion, although I’d hesitate to call it censorship. More of a bad implementation of parental notification.

I do understand why an anti-censorship group would oppose it, and I suspect you will oppose it too.

Hmmm, I’m trying to think if there’s ever been a good implementation of parental notification. All the notifications I’ve ever gotten were either too late to do any good (“your child is not performing to scale in this arcane measure, good luck teaching him or her in the two weeks remaining in the marking period”) or just useless FUD (“yet another student in your kid’s class was gunned down on the street last week”).

[anon61221983]

The kind you’re talking about are not really state mandated in the same way this is, though, other than the normal routine needs of an institution to communicate with you as the parent. It’s a general communication from the school to you. Each district probably does it differently.

I suspect this law will only cause more challenges to books in the classroom and books in the public school libraries. So, while this law might not be censorship, it can enable censorship of the kind we’ve already seen in recent history, which I’d suspect tends to go after more books by POC, LGBQT, and women than men.