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   LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 03:37:25 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
   Apparently Orange County FL banned _Brave New World_. That's a vitally important book. If you haven't read it, I recommend it.
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     GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 03:46:37 JST GeniusMusing

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     So you have not seen the full list?
     
     Read it yourself: All 673 books removed from Orange classrooms – Orlando Sentinel
     https://nu.federati.net/url/292886
     
     >Here is a list of the 673 books removed from teachers’ classroom shelves in Orange County for fear they might violate state law and rules on “sexual conduct:” Some might be returned to shelves after further review.
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     LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 04:43:46 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @geniusmusing Wow!
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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 05:02:24 JST simsa03

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     • GeniusMusing
     They are absolutely nuts. They banned (amongst many other authors):
     
     Isabel Allende, Aristophanes, Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, T.C. Boyle, Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, Louise Erdrich, John Fante, Gustave Flaubert, Federico García Lorca, Gabriel García Márquez, Allen Ginsberg, Graham Greene, Hermann Hesse, Khaled Hosseini, Aldous Huxley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jack Kerouac, William Kotzwinkle, Doris Lessing, Cormac McCarthy, John Milton, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Ovid, Philip Roth, Arundhati Roy, Muriel Spark, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Alice Walker,Tom Wolfe...
     
     Obviously they are too uneducated to include Giovanni Boccaccio, Truman Capote, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michael Ventura, Patrick White...
     
     That happens when you have GOP-aligned people occupy local school boards.
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     GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 05:20:05 JST GeniusMusing

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     • simsa03
     I have to fix this for you.
     
     That happens when you have GOP-aligned people occupy almost every position in a state.
     LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} likes this.
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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 06:06:39 JST simsa03

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     • GeniusMusing
     Glad you did.