Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Titus G Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Books Banned in Utah. Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 15:50:00 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: noone@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:50:01 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="77d893f1f1fd908800db3f03f3e85c8b"; logging-data="3863577"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19GNeq82Mv34CX9ynxQQqGC" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:BSdAcUm/JUqD0tQX3VpLFuMCqr4= Content-Language: en-AU In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2532 On 8/08/24 14:57, Ted Nolan wrote: > In article , > Dimensional Traveler wrote: >> On 8/7/2024 6:07 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>> On 8/7/2024 6:23 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote: >>>> ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) writes: >>>>> In article , Titus G >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Utah has banned 13 books, including Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood >>>>>> which basically claims that large corporations are not to be trusted >>>>>> with science. >>>>>> I do not know any of the other authors but Sarah J. Maas writes >>>>>> Fantasy. >>>>>> James Nichol will be delighted that women are being recognised with >>>>>> twelve of the thirteen books being written by women. >>>>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/ >>>>>> e/2PACX-1vQc_7uakPh4eRXrq0iVq-L2g- >>>>>> BwcnRWyfc7E0QOdrThoUEtPHQaDvJM4JwNFXV-HZQok4L-fDh_P9jt/pubhtml?pli=1 >>>>> >>>>> Once again: BS. >>>>> >>>>> Utah has decided those books >>>> >>>> What right does any state have to do that? >>> >>> The same as you, their money, their choices. >>> >> You mean, "their money, their imposing their choices on everyone else". >> > > That's how public education works. The ban also applies to Charter Schools.