A far-right member of the school board in a Texas town, who has been on a crusade to ban books, was censured on Wednesday night for allegedly lying to gain access to a high school library.

The 5-2 vote to reprimand Karen Lowery came after dozens of residents of Granbury—evenly divided between those who were appalled by her actions and those who defended her—spoke during a five-hour meeting about what’s being called Librarygate.

  • DrPop@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Can we come up with a new suffix? I’m tired of things ending in hate, I wasn’t even alive during that administration.

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      1 year ago

      I think it’s just ingrained in the public consciousness, now, even beyond the United States. Kinda like how so many things have been called “the Dark Souls of ____”.