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Originally Posted by DNSB
Of course, the state of Florida has not banned books. Florida HB 1069 allows anyone to object to a book that they consider pornographic or inappropriate and it must be removed from school libraries until such time as the convoluted review process has been completed— if it is ever completed. After all, the state only empowered members of the public to make those objections and so the state of Florida can proclaim "Our hands are clean".
From the comments I've seen, the review process is overloaded and even the Florida government from several reports that I've read is taking steps to reduce "frivolous complaints" to quote DeSantis.
From other reports, books that were replaced on library shelves after the review process were promptly removed when another complaint was made and the whole review process had to be started again. No double jeopardy for books.
Though I had to love a quote from Sydney Booker who is a talking head for the Florida education department. He refers to the publishers’ lawsuit “a stunt”, and claimed “there are no books banned in Florida. Sexually explicit material and instruction are not suitable for schools.”
Gee, Judy Blume wrote sexually explicit books? The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is pornographic? The Diary of a Young Girl is sexually explicit material? Has he actually looked at the list of books about which complaints were made?
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Some of these parents who are having books removed are very much racists hence books like
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer being banned.
We have many people in Florida who should never have been allowed to have kids.