• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

Missouri could jail librarians for lending 'age-inappropriate' books

JacksinPA

JacksinPA

Supporting Member
DP Veteran
Monthly Donator
Joined
Dec 3, 2017
Messages
26,290
Reaction score
16,771
Gender
Male
Political Leaning
Progressive
Missouri could jail librarians for lending 'age-inappropriate' books | Books | The Guardian

Bill would allow parents to decide whether children should have access to controversial books, with heavy penalties if libraries disobey

A Missouri bill intended to bar libraries in the US state from stocking “age-inappropriate sexual material” for children has been described by critics as “a shockingly transparent attempt to legalise book banning” that could land librarians who refuse to comply with it in jail.

Under the parental oversight of public libraries bill, which has been proposed by Missouri Republican Ben Baker, panels of parents would be elected to evaluate whether books are appropriate for children. Public hearings would then be held by the boards to ask for suggestions of potentially inappropriate books, with public libraries that allow minors access to such titles to have their funding stripped. Librarians who refuse to comply could be fined and imprisoned for up to one year.
=========================================
So watch this: they will be banning classics like 'Catcher in the Rye' because it contains the word 'fart'.

Getting consrevatives onto school boards & panels such as are proposed in this new law are ways the right wing is taking over starting at the local level.
 
Last edited:
JacksinPA said:
Missouri could jail librarians for lending 'age-inappropriate' books | Books | The Guardian

Bill would allow parents to decide whether children should have access to controversial books, with heavy penalties if libraries disobey

A Missouri bill intended to bar libraries in the US state from stocking “age-inappropriate sexual material” for children has been described by critics as “a shockingly transparent attempt to legalise book banning” that could land librarians who refuse to comply with it in jail.

Under the parental oversight of public libraries bill, which has been proposed by Missouri Republican Ben Baker, panels of parents would be elected to evaluate whether books are appropriate for children. Public hearings would then be held by the boards to ask for suggestions of potentially inappropriate books, with public libraries that allow minors access to such titles to have their funding stripped. Librarians who refuse to comply could be fined and imprisoned for up to one year.
=========================================
So watch this: they will be banning classics like 'Catcher in the Rye' because it contains the word 'fart'.

Getting consrevatives onto school boards & panels such as are proposed in this new law are ways the right wing is taking over starting at the local level.
Click to expand...

It's about novels containing stories of a sexual nature. Speak is pretty heavy and disturbing (their example in the article).

I don't agree with laws like this. If the parents don't want their child checking out a certain book or books, they are responsible for making sure their child doesn't check it out. No need to ban any YA books from the library or punish librarians, for the love of Pete.
 
Would the librarians be jailed together, like a group of them?
 
JacksinPA said:
Missouri could jail librarians for lending 'age-inappropriate' books | Books | The Guardian

Bill would allow parents to decide whether children should have access to controversial books, with heavy penalties if libraries disobey

A Missouri bill intended to bar libraries in the US state from stocking “age-inappropriate sexual material” for children has been described by critics as “a shockingly transparent attempt to legalise book banning” that could land librarians who refuse to comply with it in jail.

Under the parental oversight of public libraries bill, which has been proposed by Missouri Republican Ben Baker, panels of parents would be elected to evaluate whether books are appropriate for children. Public hearings would then be held by the boards to ask for suggestions of potentially inappropriate books, with public libraries that allow minors access to such titles to have their funding stripped. Librarians who refuse to comply could be fined and imprisoned for up to one year.
=========================================
So watch this: they will be banning classics like 'Catcher in the Rye' because it contains the word 'fart'.

Getting consrevatives onto school boards & panels such as are proposed in this new law are ways the right wing is taking over starting at the local level.
Click to expand...

Our public library has always had a two-tiered system between adults and children wherein children 13 and younger have to have an adult with them to check out anything from the adult section of the library.
 
JacksinPA said:
Missouri could jail librarians for lending 'age-inappropriate' books | Books | The Guardian

Bill would allow parents to decide whether children should have access to controversial books, with heavy penalties if libraries disobey

A Missouri bill intended to bar libraries in the US state from stocking “age-inappropriate sexual material” for children has been described by critics as “a shockingly transparent attempt to legalise book banning” that could land librarians who refuse to comply with it in jail.

Under the parental oversight of public libraries bill, which has been proposed by Missouri Republican Ben Baker, panels of parents would be elected to evaluate whether books are appropriate for children. Public hearings would then be held by the boards to ask for suggestions of potentially inappropriate books, with public libraries that allow minors access to such titles to have their funding stripped. Librarians who refuse to comply could be fined and imprisoned for up to one year.
=========================================
So watch this: they will be banning classics like 'Catcher in the Rye' because it contains the word 'fart'.

Getting consrevatives onto school boards & panels such as are proposed in this new law are ways the right wing is taking over starting at the local level.
Click to expand...

*sigh*...panels, committee's .oversight, evaluations...ugh, moral majority censorship is just too time consuming and exhausting; at least the Nazi's just burned the books outright.....good old German efficiency. :roll:
 
Bum said:
Grouped by last name under the Dewey Decimal system. ;)
Click to expand...

No matter where, they're organized, strict and disciplined. Caged librarian heat.


I support the legislation!
 
JacksinPA said:
Missouri could jail librarians for lending 'age-inappropriate' books | Books | The Guardian

Bill would allow parents to decide whether children should have access to controversial books, with heavy penalties if libraries disobey

A Missouri bill intended to bar libraries in the US state from stocking “age-inappropriate sexual material” for children has been described by critics as “a shockingly transparent attempt to legalise book banning” that could land librarians who refuse to comply with it in jail.

Under the parental oversight of public libraries bill, which has been proposed by Missouri Republican Ben Baker, panels of parents would be elected to evaluate whether books are appropriate for children. Public hearings would then be held by the boards to ask for suggestions of potentially inappropriate books, with public libraries that allow minors access to such titles to have their funding stripped. Librarians who refuse to comply could be fined and imprisoned for up to one year.
=========================================
So watch this: they will be banning classics like 'Catcher in the Rye' because it contains the word 'fart'.

Getting consrevatives onto school boards & panels such as are proposed in this new law are ways the right wing is taking over starting at the local level.
Click to expand...

Yet in Mizzouri schools pass out free Bibles so kids can learn about all the evil that humans do to include: incest, betrayal, murder fornication, adultery and genocide by a so called benevolent supreme deity. All the best..
 
ecofarm said:
No matter where, they're organized, strict and disciplined. Caged librarian heat.

I support the legislation!
Click to expand...

Straight up hotness.

dewey.jpg
 
From my other thread:
Banning books has never worked. Does this guy think that libraries are lending out Playboys to small children? How dare children learn about identity, tough issues, or existentialism apparently. I am willing to bet this man has not read a book or been to a public library in at least 20 years if at all. How do you read Slaughter-House Five and think this is way too obscene for even teenagers to read?

Missouri once again really not helping the dumb illiterate bible-thumping hillbilly stereotype of the Southern US. Even my high-school library had a solution for the few books that some may actually find inappropriate (e.g. the graphic novel Blue is the Warmest Colour which contains nudity and LGBTQ themes) without actually removing access, the librarian would just keep them behind the counter and only loan them out to students would actually benefit from them or were mature enough to read them and they shouldn't have had to do that.
 
burning books doesn't do much good these days now that there's this thing called the internet.
 
Josie said:
It's about novels containing stories of a sexual nature. Speak is pretty heavy and disturbing (their example in the article).
Click to expand...

We all know it would never ever be limited to that. Also that shouldn't matter they are still books that can benefit someone either by helping with issues, their identities, or just broadening their world view. Take the example I used before form my high school library, Blue is the Warmest Colour a book containing nudity and LGBT themes but could help a teenager grappling with their identity.
 
Helix said:
burning books doesn't do much good these days now that there's this thing called the internet.
Click to expand...

Shhhh. This guy does not need to know it exists.
 
Carjosse said:
Shhhh. This guy does not need to know it exists.
Click to expand...

I admit that I'm slightly worried about my own kid's internet experience. FFS, the truth is out there, and to paraphrase Soundgarden, it can be ugly. However, I'll do my best at the parenting part without setting his computer on fire or pointlessly annoying his librarian. I hope.
 
Lock them up!
 
Small government, make your own choices and live with the consequences indeed.
 
Librarians never got pushed around like this when Gary Johnson was in charge of them.
 
JacksinPA said:
Missouri could jail librarians for lending 'age-inappropriate' books | Books | The Guardian
Bill would allow parents to decide whether children should have access to controversial books, with heavy penalties if libraries disobey
A Missouri bill intended to bar libraries in the US state from stocking “age-inappropriate sexual material” for children has been described by critics as “a shockingly transparent attempt to legalise book banning” that could land librarians who refuse to comply with it in jail.
Under the parental oversight of public libraries bill, which has been proposed by Missouri Republican Ben Baker, panels of parents would be elected to evaluate whether books are appropriate for children. Public hearings would then be held by the boards to ask for suggestions of potentially inappropriate books, with public libraries that allow minors access to such titles to have their funding stripped. Librarians who refuse to comply could be fined and imprisoned for up to one year.
=========================================
So watch this: they will be banning classics like 'Catcher in the Rye' because it contains the word 'fart'.
Getting consrevatives onto school boards & panels such as are proposed in this new law are ways the right wing is taking over starting at the local level.
Click to expand...

What I'm hearing is that some parents are unable to keep their kids from sneaking to the library to check out books.
I'm not really seeing the problem with kids sneaking to the library to check out books.

I'm not seeing where it's library's place to get between parents and their kids.
This is really a parenting issue.
The library is particularly ill-suited to act as a gate keeper. It's like the whole place is set to subliminally encourage people to read.
Anyway, it just means the kids'll will hang out and read the books in the library instead of checking them out.

Seems like a waste of govt resources to have the library act as your kids' book nanny.
 
As the old (truly sexist) saying went, “No gal was ever ruined by a book.”
 
JacksinPA said:
Missouri could jail librarians for lending 'age-inappropriate' books | Books | The Guardian

Bill would allow parents to decide whether children should have access to controversial books, with heavy penalties if libraries disobey

A Missouri bill intended to bar libraries in the US state from stocking “age-inappropriate sexual material” for children has been described by critics as “a shockingly transparent attempt to legalise book banning” that could land librarians who refuse to comply with it in jail.

Under the parental oversight of public libraries bill, which has been proposed by Missouri Republican Ben Baker, panels of parents would be elected to evaluate whether books are appropriate for children. Public hearings would then be held by the boards to ask for suggestions of potentially inappropriate books, with public libraries that allow minors access to such titles to have their funding stripped. Librarians who refuse to comply could be fined and imprisoned for up to one year.
=========================================
So watch this: they will be banning classics like 'Catcher in the Rye' because it contains the word 'fart'.

Getting consrevatives onto school boards & panels such as are proposed in this new law are ways the right wing is taking over starting at the local level.
Click to expand...

It's a bill.

If it becomes law, it will go bye-bye.

Nothing to see here.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom