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I searched "book burning in history" and every hit was about the Nazi's. Pretty fitting. It's still the Nazi's a hundred years later.
A public library is literally the qunticential place a parent would WANT to find their child. If they're in the library, they're not out doing damage in town or in any physical danger. And now kids are banned. Genius.
Can you imagine having a paper to write and your mommy and daddy have to go sign an affadavit for you at the public library because you're a 16 year old and need to be protected... from books? I went to college with a 16 year old who graduated hs early - I guess she would have needed protection from studying in the school library. Can't have her... learning... (which, of course, is the point.)
Thankfully, conservatives are still stuck in the distant past and apparently don't know about the internet? Or eReaders? There is zero chance of corking any of the information they are trying to surpress - so what is stage 2 of this absurdity, exactly? We need to stop this shit in it's tracks, but we also need to be aware of the long term goals.
The goal is probably to kill library attendance numbers so that they can say nobody is going to the library, and cancel the budget. Then they're free to use that money for other things, kick-backs to their nephew who is a housing developer, extra M16's for the cops, or whatever.
Ah, this is probably it. In my head I forgot for a sec that it's never ACTUALLY about protecting the kids - this is the next step.
These fucking conservatives have got me about to do a book burning protest with the Bible
They probably think that if they're not in the library they're spending their parents money at some store/coffee shop/restaurant. While that will be true for some I imagine the rest will roam around in hordes causing "mayhem". Either that or the church.
My town's middle school is right across the street from the library. Kids often end up there and it's great and convenient