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Not directly, it does not.
There may be lots of ways this sort of stuff can creep into the decision making process of the review team.
But the letter of the law that pertains to this stuff is not the anti-woke nonsense that's affecting, for example, the African-American studies AP course Florida effectively banned.  This may be a part of the much larger umbrella.  But the part affecting the schools here is very much explicitly focused only on pornography... at least ostensibly.
It’s Orwellian. >

Only until no one knows what that means. >

this just blows me away.  i mean its 20-friggen-23 and people want to still ban WORDS.  words are the audible version assigned by your brain of the concept of what they mean.
They know they cant ban an idea or concept so banning words is the next closest thing.  That is the most controlling shit i can imagine when you think about it.  
these people arent much to show for 4.5 billion years of evolution >


These people arent much to show for 4.5 [redacted by order of the Governor] years of [redacted by order of the Governor]

The what? You're not making much sense here >

dude.. ok.. thats funny :D >

They just really don't want kids reading books. >

They might get ideas that way. >

They never got over the technopanic caused by the Gutenberg press. >

"Wait.  We can't let the peasantry know what the Bible REALLY says." >

Catholic conservatism never really changed its stripes. >

Want to shut a priest up?  Ask him where in the Bible does it define the archdiocese as religious authority? >

The argument probably goes something like this:
“Peter - ostensibly the first Pope, despite that not being a title in the Bible - was given the keys, or the ability to bind and loose (meaning regulate), what he (and all that follow in that office) chooses. That means whatever the Pope says is (religiously) the rule (but only in certain specific circumstances), so he can shape it as he sees fit (within ‘reason’).
So, the Pope creates the catholic (small ‘c’ meaning universal) structure, and that gives us what we see today. Because in Scripture, Peter was given this power (which is true in the Bible), it follows that the archdiocese is a religious authority, regardless of it being in the text.’
That seems to be essentially the same answer to the following quip:
Jesus teaches you what to do to be a good person. It wasn’t until the Council of Nicea did man come back with what and how to believe to be a good Christian. >

Is this America? This is what American teachers are being instructed to do? DeSantis can NEVER be allowed anywhere near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. >


DeSantis can NEVER be allowed anywhere near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The man has the charisma of a turnip. He's going to flame out in minutes once he has to actually campaign and can't just send press releases to Fox. 
He's just Jeb with more transparency about the racism. >

I hope you're right that he's the next Jeb!.
"Please clap." >

Not a fan of Jeb, but the media did him dirty with that clip. In the full exchange he kept getting interrupted with clapping, so he told the crowd to wait to clap until he finished his point. Then they didn't realize he was done so he dryly said, "Please clap." >

I know. The same with Howard Dean. The trick is to be such a polished speaker that they can't get that audio. Or, just keep your non-charismatic candidate away from the media. >

Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and say something really dumb like "you can't get fooled again" instead of giving away an audio clip of "Shame on me." >

No American should vote for any Republican for any office - local, state, or federal - until this fascist ideology is brought down and its harm has been repaired. >

Republicans are a fascist party and always have been. Fascism is colonialism turned inwards and they've always been into that. The only way to cull the fascism is to defeat the GOP and then vote out the centrists among the Dems. Really though, that's not the entire solution either >

Floridians. What are you doing? >

Waiting to die. >

What a Facist state to live in!!! >

Could be the country if we're not fully engaged in the next few elections. >

Historically, there is a very easy method to identify the bad guys in any given ideological conflict.  The one that is banning and/or burning books is the bad guy. >

Don't remove them; fasten sheets of plexiglass to make them inaccessible. Let the students see what's being kept from them. >

The law in question is about banning access to material which acknowledges that, say, the other kids in the class might have two moms, or that a teenager might turn out to be gay.
If a title or cover does any of that, the teachers can end up with a felony conviction. >

Every day you can wake up and look to the news to see what Nazi inspired shit conservatives are trying today. 
We need a newer, more agile court system that can smack down dumb attempts at violating the constitution without "the little people" having to get charged or sued or whatever. It shouldn't be incumbent upon people who make relatively little money to take it to court and assume all the risk just to use their rights. >

Only two ways that's gonna happen. Either more than 50% of young people consistently outvote both the fascist right and the cowardly centrists that avoid rocking the boat at all costs for the next ten to twenty years, or they violently rebel and successfully overthrow the current government. 
Obviously I prefer the solution that doesn't involve mass bloodshed and a high likelihood of both failure and the triggering of World War 3, but a lot of young folk are refusing to vote at all because they are imprisoned by their own disillusionment. Which unfortunately is exactly what the GOP wants. >

We saw pretty decent engagement recently and conservatives are not getting any younger. >

So free we’ll tell you what you can read >

They're not coming, they're here. >

Oh, my. Is this a real pic from Kristalnacht? I have never seen it but want to show my students tomorrow! >

Tyrannical fucks >

I don’t care if you agree with this or not ( I don’t) but can we all agree that they don’t get paid enough for this shit? >

I grew up with Bookmobile and Reading Rainbow...
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What in-the-ever-living-fuck is going on in this country? >

Authoritarianism is regaining strength all over the world, seeking once again to challenge democracy at large. Sadly we are facing the same internal battle that 1920s Germany lost. >

Imagine a world without free knowledge. Wikipedia uttered those words when they blacked out the site in protest of the infamous Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Those words also apply to this situation too. >

Republicans saw “Readers are Leaders” posters and got scared their jobs were in danger. >

I wonder how many of the books come from Dolly Parton’s wonderful free book program? >

30,000 votes. That’s all it took for Republicans to turn a purple state bright red in 4 years. >

How have we gotten to this point?
🤦🏻‍♂️ >

Republicanism. >

People who ban books are NEVER in the right. >

Florida really out here trying to create a lord of the flies scene. Taking booms away from kids is dumbest thing and then complain about literacy later. >

They won't complain. They want them dumb so they are easier to control. That's the plan. >

Stupid people vote R, and they know it. >

Remove the books!  Murder, incest, rape, genocide, adultery, unending hatred; they can learn all about that from the bible, and it is god sanctioned. Where do you think Santis gets his ideas from? Santis in 24! (not 2024, just the year 24, yeah I know I'm late). /s because some people can not understand sarcasm
...and before all the hate starts down-voting, I believe in God, just not religion. The old testament needs a rewrite. >

The New Testament was the rewrite. It just doesn't matter because the Bible in its totality is nothing more than a means to an end for those who seek power over others. >

This. It's only ever been a means to control. >

Guys, what happens if a kid reads a book title and their orientation changes immediately to gay thereby causing their soul to be damned to hell until they watch a Rambo marathon. >

I feel like I went to bed and it was 1974 and I’m waking up and all this is some crazy dream and none of this is really happening. 
It’s 2023 and this is what progress and our schools and good parents and families have to show for it? Fights over books and banning titles and demonizing/scapegoating people you don’t even know a thing about? This is what our government is laser focused on? 
I just can’t believe this is real. >

How fucking dystopian do we have to get before y’all catch a clue where Ron’s dragging your ignorant asses?  fmr >

It's so bizarre to be watching this in real time. >

This is one of those things that sounds good (to some, at least) but ends up being very problematic.
Ostensibly, as the article relates, this is to protect children from pornography.  Let's ignore criticism of any "protect the children" political campaigns for the moment...
One significant problem is the ambiguity involved.  What does this even mean?
But the most significant problem is that this is a whitelist approach rather than a blacklist approach.  Rather than the typical function of your average censor board banning specified titles/works, this is flipped.  Everything is banned until reviewed and whitelisted. >

It means that they're not allowed to have any content which acknowledges that some people are gay or trans, or that people who have dark skin contributed to our country or are good people, or that other kids might be raised by a same-sex couple.