Some Louisiana Republicans are taking aim at public libraries with legislation that could criminalize librarians.
  • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    7 months ago

    Why do I get the feeling that people that try to ban books don’t go to libraries in the first place

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    333·
    7 months ago

    “culture wars” is such a nonsense and biased phrase to be using. There are no “culture wars” - there are just biggots being biggots. “war on woke” and “culture wars” and just stupid phrases used by the right wing nutters to try and legitimise there stupidity as some kind of “movement”.

    Push back for sure, but we should also be reframing the converstion - there is no “war”; this is pushing back against biggotry which is nothing new.

    • eardon@lemmy.ca
      114·
      7 months ago

      I think your problem is that you think your tribe is objectively correct.

      • stembolts@programming.dev
        61·
        7 months ago

        The overwhelming majority of the country does as well, given the popular vote going back to the 1990s.

        And we do live in a democracy, don’t we? So in a democracy, if the majority of people support a thing, should the government support it or forbid it? I doubt you’ll directly answer this question.

        But I think you should spend some time to contemplate these ideas without asking someone else what your opinion should be.

        If you were to answer, I would be curious which talking point you’ll use to justify that the minority of people (Christian Conservatives) should command the majority (literally anything else).

        And bad news for you, the majority is growing, not shrinking. And the new generations are abandoning religion at an even faster rate than the current generation. Eventually (at current rates this will likely become vastly apparent by 2028/2032) not even the electoral college will be able to suppress us.

        Good luck.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
    121·
    7 months ago

    You can view a lot of human history though the lens of two factions. One that that claims to have a monopoly on the truth that they zealously guard suppressing any alternative, the other that claims that everyone can understand the truth. The first leans towards dictatorship the second to democracy.

  • creamed_eels@toast.ooo
    61·
    7 months ago

    Look, I don’t need no woke lie-berry to show my younguns how wear purty dresses and to do the gay sex!