Conservative-dominated court restores books denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’ to school libraries
An appellate court has ruled that Texas cannot ban books from libraries simply because they mention “butt and fart” and other content which some state officials may dislike.
The fifth US circuit court of appeals issued its decision on Thursday in a 76-page majority opinion, which was written by Judge Jacques Wiener Jr and opened with a quote from American poet Walt Whitman: “The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.”
In its decision, the appellate court declared that “government actors may not remove books from a public library with the intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree”.
Imagine having to write 76 pages in response to this bullshit
The primary opinion is only 27 pages. The rest is a three page concurrence a 46 page dissent by Duncan.
It’s still 76 pages of legal writing because the GQP has become so good at wasting our time.
for extra effect, I recommend reading through the opinion first before imagining. The high quality of the writing really accentuates the ludicrous degree of clown shit on display from the GOP.
To be fair, he didn’t have to make it that long.
On the other hand, we wouldn’t have gotten this:
• Seven “butt and fart” books, with titles like I Broke My Butt! and Larry the Farting Leprechaun;
which was written by Judge Jacques Wiener Jr
Heh heh
Poetry in motion
Unfortunately, we know how this is going to go: “If you won’t let us ban books from the library, we’ll just ban the library.”
Which was probably the intent from the start.
Already happening in some places. Local governments are cutting library funding because they don’t like the some of the content that their libraries are stocking, but the courts won’t let them ban it all.
Time to open private non-profit libraries, offer classes on social tolerance and apply for public grants?
Not even close to the most ridiculous things in books Texas had tried to ban.
And these old farts are complaining about how “soft” today’s youth are? They really need to get their heads out of their butts.
And also tout freedom of speech.
They gonna come for your post next.
And when bullshit like this gets passed and they get in trouble, they automatically assume it’s the left lol
Every child between the ages of 2 and 10 would find a book with nothing but the words ‘butt’ and ‘fart’ endlessly amusing.
Btw, I absolutely ADORE that the acronym for the system used by libraries to weed out old books is MUSTIE 😆❤️
What does MUSTIE stand for? You can’t just leave us hanging! 🤓
Llano County applies the “MUSTIE” factors in weeding books, as recommended by experts in the field, under which a book is evaluated for whether it is (1) “Misleading and/or factually inaccurate,” (2) “Ugly (worn out beyond mending or rebinding),” (3) “Superseded by a new edition or a better source,” (4) “Trivial (of no discernable literary or scientific merit),” (5) “Irrelevant to the needs and interests of the community,” or (6) “Elsewhere (the material may be easily borrowed from another source).”
Anyone else thinking that this Judge would have gotten his autobiography banned for profanity just for the name?
Imagine being all worked up about books mentioning raging obscenities like ‘butt’ and ‘fart’, only to get slapped in the face by Judge ‘Wiener’. 😂
Imagine having that much of an issue with barely offensive words that their kids will never read because most don’t use the school library anyway.
And imagine letting your kids come home and access whatever media they want including actual pornography on the internet. Most of these parents have zero clue how to block internet sites on their home computers and laptops let alone the phones that their kids all have.
But of course, that’s another problem some parents are asking the government to solve by forcing porn sites to require visitors to affirmatively identify themselves and their age. Of course, that only applies to the major porn sites that play by the arbitrary rules anyway. All so stupid.
Theyre trying to ban him next
Butts make funny noises when you pass gas. Babies laugh at it. They have no idea what’s going on at all 95% of the time, but they get that farts are funny.
Get fucked fascists. Exactly never are the ones banning/burning books on the right side of history.
Sometimes I wonder why America is a called “the land of the free”.
So kids, as we know now, our ancestors, the hominids that came before us, they all had big butts apparently. Ha! I said butts! Now they can’t ban my book on evolution!
Didn’t Trump fart all the time while in court? I’d expect them to love farts and huff them all the time. Their lord and savior deemed it good enough for his behind, so it shall be good enough for their noses. It was his political statement, banning farts from books is political motivated terrorism or something like that, I don’t know. I’m not insane enough to understand their intentions.
Sounds like they’re the ones in need of new butts.
