While I didn’t think that they would go after a dictionary, it’s not surprising that fascists would go after a book full of definitions.

Check this bit from the end:

In a brief submitted by the State of Florida in support of Escambia, Attorney General Ashley Moody argued that the school board could ban books for any reason because the purpose of public school libraries is to “convey the government’s message,” and that can be accomplished through “the removal of speech that the government disapproves.”

Parents NEED to lodge formal complaints with the police and school boards in EVERY district that still has dictionaries and encyclopedias in the libraries.

Whittle down every district until they’re only allowed to work on coloring books for every grade K-12, or as close as they can get.

Don’t forget to target private schools with massive social media campaigns to inform all parents that dictionaries = grooming.

because it exposes students to “alternate sexual ideologies.” Baggett said she was concerned “a second grader would read this book, and that idea would pop into the second grader’s mind… that these are two people of the same sex that love each other.”

This is the kind of people we are dealing with. They are literally trying to prevent children from developing accepting attitudes of minorities.

We should also ban math books, and history books. Full of sexual descriptions and imagery. Ban economy books too, full baabout advice on how to rape the poor, and the bible too with its incest and rape stories, and you know, let’s ban all the books and then just go to school to hold hands and sing hallelujah and praise Jesus.

I see a number of Republican politicians getting very wet at this idea…

With rights to request removal of books when they have descriptions of sexual activity, I’d say the bible is definitely a prime target. It has incest, rape, and even those are kind of fan favorites for republican politicians, they too must recognize that Bible’s are evil and must be banned.

Soon: “All books are now banned because they contain the letters L, G, B, T and Q. Any books containing these five letters will now be banned from public libraries.”

/m/MaliciousCompliance is leaking :D

The reality in Escambia County serves as a rejoinder to DeSantis, who has described concerns about book removals as a “leftist activist hoax” and a “false political narrative.”

If Floridians had a dictionary to look up “rejoinder” with, they’d be very upset.

Are they trying to make new speak a reality?

I can’t imagine a school that banned dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias.

Is no one else looking at this line the school district is at this point just pulling every possible book that could match the description of the law in purpose to make a point?

One teacher made a complaint about a couple of books so they said fine, well just remove everything else that this bill could possibly touch. Just to prove how ambiguous and far stretching this law can go?

Of course they shouldn’t pull a dictionary but it matches the description. This is to test the law.