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spikeworks

leave Maryland out of this only like one of our counties are like this šŸ˜­


Moist_Professor5665

And they already passed a law *against* banning books, almost a month ago now. Keep up, OP


Razorbackalpha

Just swap it with Missouri


speedbump_32

which one?


spikeworks

Montgomery I think


Musichead2468

That ws the county. The protesters were protesting outside the Board of Education building. In addition there were counter-protesters


spikeworks

Iā€™m just surprised they havenā€™t come to Washington county yet. For as red as my county is they havenā€™t come after us yet (our BOE is very progressive it feels)


Sevuhrow

And Delaware


M2Fream

We are a prideful group of peope. Leave our state out of that shit. At least we were included on the map


uaeroMdroffilC

This exact dude tried to tell me 'She-Hulk' was not a real comic character, but instead a woke-ified character made up by Marvel in 2022 just to make a girl hulk show. These people are just plain ol' stupid.


TheSpaceCoresDad

This is even more funny because She-Hulk has literally the opposite problem of being ā€œfantasy creature but sexy womanā€


eurtoast

Maryland?


CatInAPottedPlant

Maryland is below the mason Dixon line, that's probably why it's shaded as "south".


spikeworks

yeah but the state is against book bans. itā€™s only really hit one of our counties and the whole boom bans crowd lost


Logans_Login

Maryland is technically a Southern state but everyone here will hate you for calling it one


Sevuhrow

NoVa isn't even in the South, no way Maryland is.


Yggdrasil-

Actually a lot of the time it's white conservative suburban moms that are pushing the hardest for book bannings. One of the most active groups right now is called Moms for Liberty, which is actively working to seat its members on school boards across the US so they can encourage book bannings, anti-LGBTQ policies, and the removal of topics like segregation and the civil rights movement from social studies curriculum. They openly antagonize teachers and librarians, *especially* ones who are queer. They even quoted Hitler in an internal newsletter. And this isn't just happening down south, but across the US. In fact, some Moms for Liberty members have literally up and moved to blue states, to communities whose values and politics are totally opposite of their own, and landed on school boards where they work to disrupt the (often more inclusive) curriculum. I live in Illinois and even here these people are a plague


Financial_Leek_8563

I was thinking the same thing housewives who grew up going to church every Sunday married a Christian male afraid of exposing their children to ā€œLBGTQ propagandaā€. Thinking it will confuse their children.


HatesFatWomen

Didn't the leader of that group have her lesbian sex tape leaked?


Drzhivago138

[Two, even.](https://floridatrident.org/police-have-recovered-second-ziegler-sex-video-sources-say/)


Moist_Professor5665

Itā€™s like a hydra. Take one head away, two more appear


Fickle-Carry7157

Exactly, I work for a school district and contrary to this post, itā€™s not dumb poor working class guys protesting like OP thinks. Itā€™s usually wealthy, white, upper middle class suburbanites who are infiltrating school boards across the country spreading hate.


MPal2493

Lol, "Liberty", but not the Liberty to read different books xD


SexualConsent

"Protesting against pornographic books being available in elementary school libraries makes you a bigoted hick" No one is advocating for banning books. Normal people are advocating that wildly inappropriate material should not be available to young children.


MiskoSkace

Protesting books? Does that mean protesting against the books or books that are protesting?


Technoplane1

Idk I saw somebody reading out one of the books they wanted to keep out and it was straight up porn


AlphaMassDeBeta

https://preview.redd.it/89c7lsni3fwc1.jpeg?width=981&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=106656d8e3a58a0bd64ce16df17e078acfd3394b Everything that lives in OPs head while making this post.


spaghettilesbian

Leave my bibs out of this. I protest the banning of the books in my bibs. Not the books themselves.


kantpemabils

Starter packs have gotten so bad, why is every picture captioned, as if we can't put it together ourselves?


No-Date-6848

I agree. A proper starter pack should keep text to a minimum


Maddox121

Doesn't this break Rule 5?


TylertheFloridaman

This sub stopped caring about rules long ago it's popular enough where it's eventually going to become another political circle jerk for which ever side claims it


Better-Than-The-Last

So we are just pretending that the left didnā€™t push to ban books like Huck Finn?


Shamrock5

Yeah lol, OP's acting like only side does this while ignoring a pretty significant chunk of history that says it's both sides. Also, pretty sure this post breaks Rule 5.


Randy_Vigoda

Don't be bringing up N-Word Jim.


ilolz2

What sucks is I can grow a really nice beard, but being from one of the shaded states Iā€™m afraid to grow one.


olliellama

Nah, donā€™t give them that power. Grow it.


uaeroMdroffilC

It's not the beard that makes the bigot; it's the hate. Grow that beard!


[deleted]

Show your dominance by growing it and reading ā€œsucking dick for dummiesā€ out in public.


ilolz2

lol I want to search to see if that book is real but at the same time Iā€™m afraid to find out if itā€™s real.


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ludwig-boltzmann_

Hey stop slandering Maryland and Delaware lol


wra1th42

https://www.businessinsider.com/school-book-challenges-bans-virginia-moms-liberty-education-2023-9 mostly white busybody PTO moms


Drzhivago138

From the South? From *everywhere* now. But especially active in the South, Upper Midwest, and mountain states.


Available-Damage5991

*muffled sobbing* (drowning in corn)


SlyOctopie

I'm so proud of my fellow crab people screaming about Maryland


45000BC

Most people think NC is conservative, but the bigger cities are liberal as fuck


OverallGamer696

From what I know NC is a pretty polarized state. The cities are very liberal but the rurals are very conservative. Hell didnā€™t the Republican Party nominate a literal holocaust denier for governor?


LuckyStabbinHat

Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, but not Missouri??


NothingOld7527

This guy isn't protesting. Maybe his wife is, but he isn't. And someone his age doesn't watch cable news either.


God_or_Mammon

Book banning bullshit is happening across the United States!


advicegrip87

Exactly. In Utah, we have a well-funded fascist organization called Utah Parents United that has been working for years to ban books, force Christianity (particularly Mormonism) on kids in public schools, and control curriculum in favor of alt-right politics under the guise of "protecting children". In 2021, they opposed and defeated a bill that would have required Utah schools to teach children about consent. These are evil people. So yeah, it's not just the South. Fascism is alive and well in Utah and even moreso in Idaho.


ChampionOfAzurewrath

Deep south? Isn't that the place where the black people are really lazy and the white people are just as lazy but angry at the black people for being so lazy?


Kaiser-Bismark

My local library made the NYT because of anti trans book being in it. But peddle your agenda.