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Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt and fart’
(www.theguardian.com)
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These are the same people who tried to get Mr Rogers taken off the air and tried to shut down PBS entirely.
I think the average city-American doesn't fully appreciate how backwards most of our country really is. As someone who grew up in the rural outskirts I can tell stories of the people and communities and attitudes that would probably be shocking to many people, but there are so many people like this that they have significant power over our land. We have to be a lot better about enforcing education in our country, we need to bring the morons back up out of the dark-ages, because there are a fucking LOT of dark-age imbeciles across the US shaping policy for all of us and most of the time they run unchallenged because everyone just fixates on presidential elections every four years and nothing else.
Sadly they slowly dismantle public education at every turn. I'd be curious to see the uptick in the past 40 years of homeschooling, particularly those doing so for religious reasons.
It's not the last 40 years, it's been since Civil Rights legislation and the Brown vs Board decision.
Curious to see the numbers for any time range, just suspected a growth in past few decades.