Political parties seem irrelevant here. Let educators rather than politicians decide which books should be in a school library.

Which laws did Democrats pass calling for books to be removed from schools? I admit I'm not always paying attention, but I don't remember any.

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guywithahat 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Let educators rather than politicians decide which books should be in a school library

We already don't do this though, between state laws, federal laws, and the department of education. I am fine getting rid of the department of education though since it seems you're opposed to it too.

And it was 20 years ago, you'd have to look up the specific policies. The point is acting like this is the first time people have tried banning books from young children in school is ignorant of all recent history

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glitcher 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Making a claim and supporting it by effectively saying "go look it up yourself" is hardly compelling. It might be accurate, or perhaps not incorrect but misleading.

This smells a lot like the old "both sides do bad stuff" argument, which often gets over applied to pretend there is no difference in magnitude of the egregiousness when two sides do similar bad stuff.

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potato3732842 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>We already don't do this though

And even if we did it would still go to shit because "educators" is not an representative cross section of the population and their choices would be ideologically skewed and/or subject to industry circle jerks and fads.

	▲	amanaplanacanal 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Educators are people that are trained in educating children. I'm not sure why they should be a representative cross section of anything.

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zeroonetwothree 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Generally institutions have more Democrats serving in them (I suppose it’s a culture fit thing) so it’s less needed for them to pass explicit laws vs just issuing organisational memos or other internal orders.

	▲	ModernMech 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> it’s less needed for them to pass explicit laws vs just issuing organisational memos or other internal orders. But issuing organizational memos is not illegal, whereas passing explicit laws is banned by the Constitution. Probably because one is a really bad idea that chills free speech for the whole nation, while the other is just how any community organization operates.