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Subject: Re: Books Banned in Utah.
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:38:03 -0700
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On 8 Aug 2024 02:57:36 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
wrote:

>In article <v91654$3gcfg$2@dont-email.me>,
>Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> 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 <tednolan>) writes:
>>>>> In article <v90pgc$3clah$1@dont-email.me>, Titus G =20
>>>>> <noone@nowhere.com> 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=20
>>>>>> 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/=20
>>>>>> e/2PACX-1vQc_7uakPh4eRXrq0iVq-L2g-=20
>>>>>> =
BwcnRWyfc7E0QOdrThoUEtPHQaDvJM4JwNFXV-HZQok4L-fDh_P9jt/pubhtml?pli=3D1
>>>>>
>>>>> Once again: BS.
>>>>>
>>>>> Utah has decided those books
>>>>
>>>> What right does any state have to do that?
>>>=20
>>> The same as you, their money, their choices.
>>>=20
>>You mean, "their money, their imposing their choices on everyone else".
>>
>
>That's how public education works.

That's how /lot's/ of things work. Including private education.

"He who pays the piper calls the tune"

(I'm not saying I agree with this sort of idiocy, merely that they
have the right and responsibility to do this. That they are doing it
idiotically is a different issue from their having the right to do
it.)
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"