OK, finally, something to talk about.
An 11-year-old in Maine spoke out against “pornographic” content in his middle school and wants the administrators to be prosecuted.
nypost.com
Problematic due to age appropriateness, but not porn.
Randi Weingarten, president of America’s second-largest teachers union, didn’t even wait for Banned Books Week to begin before posting on X: “Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class - THIS Speaks for itself!!!” Just the latest example of “book banning” in our schools, it seemed.
www.heritage.org
Not porn.
As of last week, the Biden administration has all but declared that access to porn at school is the civil rights issue of our time.
www.newsweek.com
This article discusses three books.
Books one and two are not porn.
Book three is more graphic than I'd be comfortable with my 11 year old looking at, but is not porn.
I'm starting to wonder if you are actually trolling, it's been in the news for months.
I'm not trolling, don't take the lazy way out, and don't get ahead of yourself, you have not made the point you may have thought you have.
Oh and BTW, if a book says 14+ or 18+ the librarian is under no obligation to void the transaction.
That should be fixed! Not through bans, but through getting the staff to do their job.
So, you've dropped three links pertaining to five books, two of which were problematic because of the age of those accessing them, none of which would be considered porn or erotica.
The solution here seems to be that school librarians need to be better trained and more engaged, and age ratings need to be enforced.
Here's where i think you're getting stuck. You seem to think your morality should apply to everyone. That what you think is pornography should be the definition, and that definition should never change, regardless of what societal norms become. And i can sympathize. It would be easy to lie for the sake of debate and say i was totally comfortable with all the material presented, but that would be a lie.
But what i will say is that it's not up to me, and definitions are definitions. If i was concerned, i would take my concerns to the police, because distributing pornography to minors is a criminal offense. They'd clear things up pretty quick, i would imagine.
If i wasn't happy with the result of that, i would do my job as an parent, in an age appropriate way, and have a talk with my kid about the content that i was uncomfortable with, and find out where he's at with it, because i want him to be able to talk with me about this kind of thing, and being an dictator pretty much guarantees that won't happen.
What i would NOT do is attempt to enforce my own morality on other people's kids through attempting to ban things i don't like. Nor would i attempt to give weight to my opinion by calling things something other than they are. Because i understand that does the opposite.
Now... i feel like we've talked pornography to death. What do you think about naked goblin bums? Because that's actually what this thread is about... And while we're at it, how does a thread about naked goblin bums become a debate about the definition of porn? It's worth considering, as while i would take your concerns seriously in their own thread, the fact that they are brought up in a thread about goblin bums just seems like a soft debate tactic to get past the ridiculousness of being mad about naked goblin bums.
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