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In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a new city ordinance targeting public homosexuality is hitting libraries. "When in History have the ones banning books been the good guys," says local activist.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

The fascists have gotten really bold lately and it’s extremely disheartening.

[–] Reality_Suit@lemmy.one 36 points 1 year ago

Where are all the armed constitution defenders? Oh, I see.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Homophobic Fuck nut hicks from a shit state.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the council moved to enact a tiered library card system, where most nonfiction content will be gated behind the adult-only library card.

Sweet, let's make sure that kids can't learn anything adults don't want them to, which pretty sure is the whole point.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

"Oh, no," says the kid on his phone, "I won't have access to the knowledge from books."

[–] Additional_Prune@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“When in History have the ones banning books been the good guys?” The answer is never, not once.

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everytime I see news like this it makes me glad not to live in america

And if you americans can afford it you should consider becoming an expat and leaving america

[–] YaksDC@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Living overseas is my retirement plan, probably Portugal, I have lost faith in the American political system.

But incidentally these people are disgusting.

[–] Batman@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I wish we could afford to do it. Even looking at the low price expat groups, they are way to unaffordable for us, who have worked at restaurants and other crap jobs (even with degrees). I am seriously desperate enough to consider trying to marry in somewhere if I can find a pair so we can both come. Then, I'd probably have to leave my pets behind, and just could not.

[–] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately there is no "safe place" in the world. The US and EU used to be the most tolerant regions but now the tide has changed. Since nobody is protesting and people are already busy enough trying to make ends meet, it's better to just wait. Either bad times will pass or society will collapse entirely and bigots will realize it was not minorities' fault for the decay.

[–] 7of9@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

The US was never tolerant, the EU is still comparatively tolerant.

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

The different views of searching Murfreesboro, TN

Google maps photos: lovely town with some good food options.

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