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Scholastic Under Fire for Allowing Schools to Opt Out of ‘Diverse Books’ for Book Fairs
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They absolutely would, and you may not care but hundreds of thousands of parents and kids worldwide do. Scholastics is one of the biggest publisher's for kids reading material out there.
It's not that simple. The choice is either 'cater' or don't operate in that area at all. They don't get to pick and choose which laws to abide by.
'Some asshole'? Because they pointed out a reasonable explanation? And no, you didn't bring up something that would protect them; firstly the punishments going include the loss of teachers license (IE: they can never teach in a school in that state again) secondly because the state laws are so stacked against them that it would instead bankrupt scholastic. A mob of lawsuits can and will bury the publisher in legal fees.
So you can stop being so disrespectful to other people with other ideas.
Congress? I've been talking about state legislature, with a mix of Supreme Court, as that would be the only federal court that can strike down these laws as unconstitutional.
Hypothetical? Nah dude, these legal actions are already being abused to hell and back.
I'm not reading all that bud.
It wasn't to protect anyone and so it wasn't a reasonable explanation.
Fuck hate and fuck any justification or minimization of complicity with hate.